Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm -- Dan Charnas, Paperback Yep Roc Records Driven into exile

Driven into exile

he sets his pawns loose

Fuller's example remains enormously relevant

'Backfired' and 'The Jam Was Moving'

The two just get each other

Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm -- Dan Charnas, Paperback Yep Roc Records Driven into exileNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius." Questlove Equal 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. His name wasn't known to mainstream audiences, and when he died at age thirty two, he had never had a pop hit. Yet since