The space-rap production legend J Dilla died almost eight years ago, and it’s crazy that there are still unused Dilla beats floating around out there in the ether. Well, there are, and the young Brooklyn ’90s-rap enthusiast Joey Bada$$ got ahold of one of them, huskily riding it and turning it into a new song [...]

The late rap production legend J Dilla recorded a ton of music before he died, and we still haven’t heard all of it. A forthcoming Dilla album, The Diary, consists mostly of raps that Dilla recorded over beats from other producers, including Madlib, Pete Rock, and Nottz. Dilla made it in the early ’00s, but [...]

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Last night, Mos Def and Talib Kweli revived Black Star for a pair of performances on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, first performing a new song, “You Already Knew,” before hitting the J Dilla-produced “Little Brother” from The Hurricane soundtrack. With the legendary Roots crew in step, it’s just ...