J Dilla's The Diary: the posthumous record he wanted you to hear

It may be yet another album released after the prolific producer’s death in 2006 but it was his attempt to make it as a starThis weekend will see the 14th release by the hip-hop producer J Dilla. The 14th posthumous release, that is. Dilla, born James Yancey, died a decade ago from a rare blood disease called TTP. At that stage he was already a producer of renown, having worked first with the group Slum Village, then A Tribe Called Quest, then everyone from Busta Rhymes to Janet Jackson. But s...

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