J Dilla: The Diary review – Dilla’s lost 2002 vocal album

(PayJay/Mass Appeal)It’s taken nearly 15 years and much legal wrangling for this album by Detroit producer J Dilla, who died in 2006, to see the light of day. Having built his reputation with beats for A Tribe Called Quest, the Roots et al, Dilla took the unusual step of recruiting others to produce his major label debut so he could devote more energy to rapping. As a vocalist, The Diary shows him to be agile and often abrasive – anger against US law enforcement surges through Fuck the Pol...

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