J Dilla is back again. This time however, it's all original material, with the occasional MC guest spot. And you know he's badass, as per usual. I Told Y'All loops a menacing synthesiser, with some overlaid vocal samples. It's hard to believe that all of this material was sitting in Dilla's collection, not good enough to be released. Having said that, his older albums before his death were even better than this, if you can imagine that, so it's not all that hard to believe. This album is very heavy on the synthesiser, juxtaposed with his trademarked heavy bass section [see McNasty Filth of Jaylib's Champion Sound album if you wanna know what I mean when I talk about a Dilla bass section]. Fans of Blu will be happy to know he makes an appearance on the album, though to be honest, his verses on Smoke were a bit underwhelming in my opinion [Sidenote: the album art for this really reminds me of the album art for Blu & Exile's Below the Heavens]. Dilla Bot Vs. The Hybrid is another stand-out on the album; as the title suggests, it has a very robotic sound to it, with Danny Brown providing some solid MCing. I'll finish this review with something his mother, Maureen Yancey, recently said in an interview with eMusic.com:"Dilla never changed. It was always music, totally music, and more music. The only thing that changed was that the bass got deeper, and our heads would thump more."
7.6
