Jay Stay Paid

[The Notorious LOL]

(y)(y)(y)


JAY $TAY PAID
IN STORES JUNE 2, 2009 ON NATURE SOUNDS
MIXED AND ARRANGED BY PETE ROCK

Tracklist:
01 KJay FM Dedication
02 King
03 I Told Yall
04 Lazer Gunne Funke
05 In the Night (Owl N Out) - While You Slept (I Crept)
06 Smoke [feat. Blu]
07 Blood Sport [feat. Lil Fame]
08 caDILLAc
09 Expensive Whip
10 Kaklow (Jump On It)
11 Digi Dirt [feat. Phat Kat]
12 Dilla Bot Vs. the Hybrid [feat. Danny Brown & Constantine]
13 Milk Money
14 Spacecowboy Vs. Bobble Head
15 Reality Check [feat. Black Thought]
16 On Stilts
17 Fire Wood Drumstix [feat. DOOM]
18 Glamour Sho75 (09)
19 10,000 Watts
20 9th Caller
21 Make It Fast (Unadulterated Mix) [feat. Diz Gibran]
22 24K Rap [feat. Havoc & Raekwon]
23 Big City
24 Pay Day [feat. Frank Nitty]
25 See That Boy Fly [feat. Illa J & Cue D]
26 Coming Back
27 Mythsysizer
28 KJay and We Out

PRESS RELEASE:

NEW ALBUM FROM THE LATE HIP-HOP LEGEND J DILLA COMING THIS SUMMER!


Executive produced by Dilla’s mother, Ms. Yancey AKA “Madukes” on Nature Sounds June 2nd 2009!!

By now most everyone is familiar with the story of musical legend J Dilla. The quiet, prolific producer collaborated with everyone from Eryka Badu to Common to Janet Jackson to Prince. Dilla was just beginning to capitalize on his cult status when he sadly passed at age 32 due to Lupus-related complications. Jay Stay Paid is a 25 track collection of unreleased Dilla beats mixed and arranged by Pete Rock. While mostly instrumental, "J$P" also offers a few guests vocals from artists that Dilla worked with or admired including Black Thought of The Roots, MF DOOM, Havoc of Mobb Deep, Blu, Pacific Division, M.O.P. , and more

Curtailing any notion of jumping on some sort of Dilla bangwagon, Jay Stay Paid was executive produced by Dilla's mother Maureen Yancey (aka Ma Dukes) along with the musical supervision of Dilla's only real musical idol, Pete Rock. "It wasn't rushed and it wasn't haphazard," explains Ms Yancey. "This album combines what he did in the beginning of his career, what he did in some of our early hospital stays, which was very deep, and some stuff pulled from old floppy disks & DATs. Its mind blowing...this is like the missing links to Dilla's legacy."

The format of the album plays like a radio show with Pete Rock as the program director. With regards to Pete's involvement, Ms. Yancey gets very excited, "Dilla wanted to pattern himself behind Pete. His dream was to become as close as possible to what Pete stood for. Pete meant everything to him. Dilla would have just been flabbergasted! " Pete's sentiments were the same toward Dilla, "Dude was amazing. He just kinda came outta nowhere and the more you heard his beats the better they got. He may not be here with us, but it's all good we're going to keep his music alive and well."

In the late 80s, Dilla founded the seminal rap group Slum Village and put Detroit hip-hop on the map, while the 90's saw him playing a major role in the production team The Ummah with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad doing extensive work on Tribe Called Quest's last two albums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRMlJvqe7kQ

[adam_f]

I heard Reality Check by Black Thought and if it's any indication of how the rest of the album is going to be, it's going to be straight fire.

[The Notorious LOL]

yup! thats the yootube link at the bottom.

[adam_f]

Oh, is it? Sorry, didn't click on it, I heard it on Okayplayer a bit back. I haven't been this excited for an album in ages.

[The Notorious LOL]

you should be sorry.

[DipDipDive]

(y)(y)(y)(y)(y) x 10,000,000 and then some

[adam_f]

Okay well you're reaction is simply over the top.

[Kid Presentable]

APOSTROPHE!

This sounds alright. (y)

[The Notorious LOL]

complete with the trademark Dilla siren sound.

this is very good so far.

[Jazz Martian]

Wow, that track was risickulous!

While I'm very excited about this album, I have some questions about it. Like what does it exactly mean, when it says that Pete Rock "arranged" the album? Like were the beats already finished by Jay Dee, and Pete Rock just "arranged" the guest vocals, and fit them into the beats. Also "arranged" the tracklist, and the length of the songs...stuff like that. Cause that's what I ultimately would want out of this album. That's the Dilla purist in me, that wants to hear the beats exactly as Dilla made them. Even things like changing the length of a beat, and putting on a rapper that Dilla wasn't involved with having on his song, is borderline with me. But I could def deal with that, and be down with it. But what I would really want, is for there to be a second disc in a set, that is just the Dilla beats, the way that he created them.

However, if Pete Rock is taking the beats, adding elements, and/or changing the structure, etc....I'm kinda not cool with that. If that's the case, then I don't look at it as a Jay Dee album. I look at it as a Pete Rock album, where he used Dilla beats, and reworked them into new beats. The Dilla purist in me aint wantin' that at all. However, like with the first scenario, if a second disc with Jay Dee's beats in their original form was included, I'd be cool with it.

Nevertheless, however this album was made, the hip-hop fan in me will love it. I mean Pete Rock is one of the GOAT producers. I'm sure that whatever Pete Rock did with his arrangement of the album, will make it a better album in general, as I think there's a chance that Dilla didn't leave these beats officially complete. And I'll take Dilla's music in whatever form it's available. It would just be nice if they would make everyone happy, by including that second pure Jay Dee CD in a set. Oh well. I'd just like to know the details of how this album was made. It would help me, in how to regard this album: Mostly Jay Dee, or a 50/50 Dilla/Pete Rock album. From what I read, the 'Jay Love Japan' album (which I still need to cop), is not as much of a complete Jay Dee album as I woulda liked. But it's still an essential disc for me.

Some of these posthumous Dilla albums, remind me of some posthumously released Jimi Hendrix Hendrix albums. This was back before the Hendrix family got control of his music. Before that, there were albums released of songs that Hendrix didn't really consider completely finished during his lifetime, and they weren't produced with him overseeing the process. There was also no official final tracklisting submitted by Jimi. Anyways, years later, these songs were compiled, produced, and given a tracklist by a producer named Alan Douglas. The most notable album released was called 'Voodoo Soup'. It was Alan Douglas' attempt to polish the songs that were planned to be part of Jimi's followup to Electric Ladyland, which he planned to call 'First Rays Of The New Rising Sun'. Nothing was made completely official before he passed. Neither the tracklist, the songs to definitely be on it, or the name of the album. Certainly the songs weren't at the stage of being considered by Hendrix as being complete. So Alan Douglas went through some different tracklists that Jimi had written down, compiled one that he liked, and thought worked, and proceeded to produce the album. He added instrumentation, including bringing in studio musicians (who had never even worked with Hendrix) to add drum, bass, and guitar parts to it. He also polished the album by adding effects to it, and applied his production style to it. The album is obviously very different than what Hendrix would have done with it. But the thing is, it was a polished, and fully produced version of this planned album. Many fans were outraged, and considered it sacrelig to release the songs completed/edited in forms that Jimi wasn't a part of, and for this album to be produced without his oversight. I kinda felt that way until I listened to the perspective of somebody who pointed out that it was produced very well. It was polished like a Hendrix album would be. And it's really great to hear a version, and imagining of what was this planned album. I really dig it. But what also needed to be released was the songs for the album "as they were", as Hendrix left them, raw. Which is what the Hendrix family did, after gaining control of his music. They unfortunately deleted 'Voodoo Soup', but did release their version of it, the raw version. This one was actually titled 'First Rays Of The New Rising Sun', as Jimi had last planned to call it. And they arranged the tracklist according to the last known version that Hendrix had written down. The Hendrix family's "First Rays..." was just as good as 'Voodoo Soup'. They're just two different versions of it. I think hearing both albums is essential, and I'm glad that I have a copy of the "out of print" 'Voodoo Soup'. Sometimes you wanna hear a fully produced, polished album. And sometimes you wanna hear the music just as the artist had left it. And that's what I want to see/hear out of these "incomplete" Dilla albums. Two different versions. An original "raw" one, and a polished and "completed" interpretation version by the right producer.


Either way, I'm excited about any new Dilla-related releases. This one sounds hot so far. It should be really dope, even if it's not released exactly how I want. Another Dilla-related release that I still need to pick up, is Illa J's 'Yancey Boys' album.