J Dilla
Hip hop music, Musical Artist
1974 – 2006
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Who was J Dilla?
James Dewitt Yancey, better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip-hop scene in Detroit, Michigan. According to his obituary at NPR.org, he "was one of the music industry's most influential hip-hop artists, working for big-name acts including A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu, MF Doom, The Pharcyde and Common." Yancey died in 2006 of the blood disease Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
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- Born
- Feb 7, 1974
Detroit - Also known as
- J. Dilla
- Jay Dee
- James Yancey
- James Dewitt Yancey
- James 'Jay Dee' Yancey
- Dilla Dawg
- Dill Withers
- Mcnasty
- Parents
- Siblings
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Pershing High School
- Died
- Feb 10, 2006
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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