J Dilla’s The Diary is now available to stream via Soundcloud.
The stream is as follows.
(The most recent post in this thread was published earlier today [April 15, 2016]. It is as follows.)
Mass Appeal released J Dilla‘s The Diary today (April 15).
The 16-track project comes posthumously after the Detroit rapper and producer passed away in 2006 due to complications from lupus.
Features on The Diary come from Snoop Dogg, Kokane, Bilal and Nas, who owns Mass Appeal. J Dilla teamed up with Madlib as Jaylib on “The Sickness.”
J Dilla intended to release the LP in 2002 and this is the final project that he had prepared to release in his lifetime. His Donuts album was released days before his passing.
Stream J Dilla’s The Diary at Apple Music.
(This article was first published February 18, 2016 and is as follows.)
Nas’ Mass Appeal label is preparing for the April 15 release of J Dilla’s The Diary album, according to a press release.
The rapper also discussed the project today (February 18) on Beats 1 Radio.
The Diary will feature unreleased raps and beats from J Dilla. Snoop Dogg, Pete Rock, Madlib and Bilal, among others, are the guests slated to appear on the project.
The Mass Appeal release will include the single “The Introduction,” which is available on HipHopDX.
In October, Nas previewed a J Dilla-produced song called “The Season,” which features the Queens, New York artist rhyming over J Dilla’s Donuts track “Gobstopper.”
J Dilla passed away in 2006 due to complications from lupus. He initially planned to release The Diary in 2002. It is the final collection of unissued material that Dilla had assembled for release during his lifetime.
The Diary cover art and tracklist are as follows:
- The Introduction
- The Anthem f. Frank & Dank
- Fight Club f. Nottz & Boogie
- The Shining Pt. 1 (Diamonds) feat. Kenny Wray
- The Shining Pt. 2 (Ice)
- Trucks
- Gangsta Boogie f. Snoop Dogg & Kokane
- Drive Me Wild
- Give Them What They Want
- The Creep (The O)
- The Ex f. Bilal
- So Far
- Fuck The Police
- The Diary
- The Sickness f. Nas
- The Doe
Mass Appeal all day!
Yea boy I just climaxed
I don’t sense any desperation here besides your comment. Jay Z and Aubrey are always taking advantage of the dead.
Yep, HOV would never do something like this, releasing material after someone’s death is disrespectful. The correct way to honor someone dead, is to repeat their rhymes (Biggie) or take entire songs of people that hated you (Tupac) and make money directly off that for your own projects. That’s why HOV is a true man and Nas keeps losing. You Nas stans just hate facts.
That makes Jay Z even worse. And what does this have to do with Nas?
Drake doesn’t take advantage of the dead? Remember that Aaliyah project he was supposedly working on?
fuck the police was on jay loves japan i think…but still i want to hear this i’m definitely purchase.
Stop being such a lame. Obviously, if you want to honor the dead its best for HOV to appropriate their material as his own. Who better than HOV saying your words and rhyming over your beats, it’s the most respectable thing. How is this being respectable to J Dilla by having Nas loser label release original material posthumously? No one will get to hear it! It’s best for Hov to take it for his own and use it to win all the grammys and respect of tween girls. You Nas stans hate facts, like greatest discs song of all time…. Takeover!!!!
Get off Jay’s dick… That joe camel fucker don’t give a fuck about you
Nas has a chance to do something big with Mass Appeal, the way it has walked a fine line between mainstream and underground.
Fuck Queensbrodge, you have made my morning. Fucken brilliant. STANS HATE FACTS LMAO
Not one word in your comment is even close to a fact.
This is just the MCA plus 3 or 4 tracks with credits real dilla fans have had this for years…
Got me all excited for nothing!
Just the MCA album
fuck the police actually was released when Dilla was alive I believe 03. for the fuck Queensbridge troll Ma Dukes (Dilla mother) wants to keep Dilla alive and introduce new people to his music what’s wrong with that? FACTs you talking about respect the dead?? fucking respect the legacy and stop being a coward seriously dude it’s embarrassing
have you ever thot that Dilla has a family…mouths that need to stay fed? Fuck Queensbridge
thank god this is on itunes apple music
yeah like Drake & Aaliyah and Jay & Biggie and Puffy & Biggie..
Some of yall will 4ever live in that past. What Nas is for HipHop is what normal folks call conservative. Preservation of true doctrines and values of one’s culture, idealogy and beliefs. Jay knows this, and so he went to war for that glory. He could have just brush it off like LL did him back in the day. But Jay knowing the culture and essence of the wordsmith olympics had to face the inevitable to fully be proclaim KONY. Poor thing for HOVA who could have taken Nas out, but true penmanship is undeniable and such was proven. Today, 4/15/16 is a new time in the lives of the two. And they are all at a perfect place, and yet, still faces challenges. Jay Tidal is trouble till now but he’s moving through it. Nas has begun what was long expected of him amongst his peers, and has a brillant business portfolio. Nas even brought Jay on startup of which they are all partners. This is what make they battle the greatest but its over a decade and now lets appreciate the beauty of unity. 1Love!!
its like nas never aged at bit, wtf?
You sound stupid as your name
love the album