![]() ![]() It blended classical music (way out there classical), commercial and at the same time. 'Lightworks', oh yes, that was something! That's one of the special ones. He tried to go over each beat and make sure that it was something different and make sure that there was nothing that he wanted to change. He got furious when he found out I was listening to his music! He didn't want me to listen to anything until it was a finished product. I would sneak in and listen to the work in progress while he was in. I got a glimpse of the music during one of the hospital stays, around his 31st birthday, when House Shoes came out from Detroit to visit him. I didn't know about the actual album Donuts until I came to to stay indefinitely. He had to take 15 different medications, we would split them up between meals, and every other day we would binge on a brownie sundae from Big Boys. He was on a special diet and he was a funny eater anyway. I would go there for breakfast, go back to Detroit to check on the daycare business I was running, and then back to his house for lunch and dinner. He'd start on a project, go back, go buy more records and then go back to working on the project again. You see, musically he went into different phases. This was the tail end of his 'Dill Withers' phase, while he was living in. Donuts was a special project that he hadn't named yet. In the December 2006 issue of, J Dilla's mother, Maureen Yancey, a former singer, spoke of watching her son's daily routine during the making of Donuts: I knew he was working on a series of beat CDs before he came to Los Angeles. According to close friend and fellow producer, the impetus for Donuts came during an extended hospital stay in the summer of 2005. ![]() ![]() Background In 2002, J Dilla had been diagnosed with, an incurable disease of the blood, while also battling, which had been diagnosed a year previously.The story and photos: Donuts 45 Box Set Box contains: Eight 7-inch singles. This is J Dilla's seminal beat album on seven 7-inch singles. ![]()
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