Dilla Time

Dilla TimeEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty first century. He wasn't known to mainstream audiences, and when he died at age thirty two, he had never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod, revered as one of the most important musical figures of the past hundred years. At the core of

it was clear that Ariana Grande was poised to be the reigning pop diva of the mid-decade

Napoleon and more

chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon

entrusted by his Jewish parents to an elderly foster mother in an effort to escape persecution

PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

and goes behind the scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly contrived comeback at London's O2 arena in 2007

both of which fueled his raw and genre-defying music yet ultimately led to his demise

a Japanese woman now living alone in England

A Pale View of Hills

counting from one to 100

First released on the eve of the war’s centenary

the album has a summery pop