“Chino has his arm around me and tells Dilla, ‘Yo, you don’t understand, this little kid right here, you’re his favorite.’ But I didn’t know he was John Coltrane at that time.” record executive working on Chino’s sophomore album, I Told You So, said. “It was Jay Dee, Common, and me,” Dan Charnas, who at the time, was a Warner Bros. They met the young producer at his makeshift studio - aka the basement of his house - which was located in Conant Gardens, the neighborhood Jay Dee, who would later switch his moniker to J Dilla, grew up. In the summer of 1999, Dan Charnas and pugnacious rapper Chino XL traveled to Detroit to work with a burgeoning producer named Jay Dee. Photo Credit: Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images We spoke to Dilla Time author Dan Charnas about his extensive new book, J Dilla’s complicated relationship with Q-Tip, and why he wants to recenter Slum Village and Fantastic Vol. Dilla created his own time, which clashed both to create something disjointed, but also beautiful and purposeful. Before J Dilla, musicians either played straight time or swing time.
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