J Dilla: Dan Charnas on the Life and Legacy of Jay Dee
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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A Straight Time Swing Time, by J D.
The main tension in writing a book like this is between fan service and trying to bring new people in who don't know thing about hiphopper. J d: There were ways that i had to keep things very simple, but there were also stories that i absolutely needed to tell because if they weren't in here, i don't think that they would be ever told. And that second chapter of the book, a straight time swing time, was me sort of stacking all three of them on top of each other. I did not know if it was going to work.
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