![]() ![]() But Charnas, the author of the 2010 book “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop,” could barely recall anything that J Dilla, born James Dewitt Yancey, said during the one occasion they spent together, in the summer of 1999. 1 that thoroughly examines the hip-hop producer’s unique approach. The writer Dan Charnas conducted nearly 200 interviews to write “Dilla Time,” a 400-page biography out Feb. ![]() In the 16 years since his death, the aura around him has only grown. Followers spoke of him reverentially and with enough hyperbole that he could feel inaccessible to listeners who didn’t quite get it. He was an open secret, an under-acknowledged force shifting and shaping modern music. ![]() Even during his lifetime, there was something unexplainable about J Dilla, the Detroit-born hip-hop producer and M.C. ![]()
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