{"product_id":"j-dillas-donuts-33-1-3","title":"J Dilla's Donuts (33 1\/3)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music” is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla's own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artist's declining health as it is an example of what scholars call “late style,” placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FunkyGrooveStore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45794217918650,"sku":"9781623561833","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0520\/4924\/8442\/files\/9781623561833.jpg?v=1776818263","url":"https:\/\/funkygroovestore.com\/products\/j-dillas-donuts-33-1-3","provider":"FunkyGrooveStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}