J Dilla was arguably the most underrated and most respected hip-hop producer in the past fifteen years. Known as a producer’s producer and changing the paradigm of some of the most championed production techniques, such as quantization, and in effect impacting every future producer after him. Having worked with influential artists such as A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, Common, Slum Village, The Roots, and Madlib, J Dilla left his signature sampling, drums, jazz, and rhythm techniques on the music he created.
