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Jay Dee
OffStereo builds narrated music history shows around real records. Jay Dee runs through 5 of them, each one placing them inside a wider story. They appear most often alongside Larry June, Kanye West and Dom Kennedy.
Shows where Jay Dee appears
Dilla's Unquantized Legacy
From sampling Kool & The Gang to his unquantized beats with Slum Village, J Dilla's radical sound on Welcome 2 Detroit shapes hip-hop's future, from Kanye West to Larry June.
1 of 8 tracks — Think Twice
Connected: Rewiring Soul Online
Phonte Coleman and Nicolay's Foreign Exchange pioneers cross-continental internet collaboration from an early 2000s Okayplayer forum, laying the independent blueprint for artists like Larry June.
1 of 8 tracks — Think Twice
Withers: Hip-Hop's Soul Foundation
Bill Withers' soulful catalog is a quiet load-bearing wall for hip-hop, with Kanye West, 2Pac, and Kendrick Lamar building their sound on his timeless grooves.
1 of 8 tracks — Think Twice
Jazz DNA in Larry June
Larry June's smooth, unhurried cadence and luxe sound trace a direct lineage from Donald Byrd's jazz grooves to J Dilla's samples, MF DOOM's production, and Dom Kennedy's West Coast cool.
1 of 6 tracks — Think Twice
Soulquarians: Electric Lady's Echoes
The Soulquarians collective, with J Dilla's beats and D'Angelo's Voodoo at Electric Lady, redefines late-90s hip hop and R&B, influencing JAY-Z's "U Don't Know."
1 of 7 tracks — Think Twice