Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For music journalist Dan Charnas, telling J Dilla’s story was a personal quest. Dilla, the highly influential rap producer, died ...

Dan Charnas graduated from Boston University in the late 1980s. He wrote for the Boston Phoenix, then moved on to become one of the first writers for the Source, the groundbreaking hip-hop magazine ...

Dilla Time by Dan Charnas MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux One way to conceive Dilla is as the 21st-century James Brown, whose edict that every Famous Flame was playing a drum bore fruit with the seminal ...

Dan Charnas has made a career of lecturing and writing about hip-hop history. In his latest book Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, he writes ...

Both in-person and virtual tickets are available for this event. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Music legend and hip-hop producer J Dilla is often referred to as a musical genius. The Detroit native ...

Toward the end of American record producer and rapper J Dilla's life, when he wasn't producing or receiving ongoing treatments for his combination of lupus and the blood disorder TTP, he was ...

When you think of hip-hop roots in Detroit, there is one producer that is considered the cornerstone of the culture. Grammy nominated J Dilla began as member of the group “Slum village” and became an ...

Black Thought once called J Dilla the greatest hip-hop producer of all time but if you asked the average hip-hop fan, they might not be able to name one song the Detroit beatmaker produced. That’s ...

Like rap? Like to read? You don't even have to say yes to both to love Dan Charnas's book The Big Payback. Released in December to critical acclaim, The Big Payback is the story of rap's rise from rec ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. J Dilla — a.k.a Jay Dee, a.k.a. James Dewitt Yancey — was a pioneering hip-hop producer who never worked on a “hit” record, ...

VH1 has announced that a TV adaptation of Dan Charnas’ best selling book “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip Hop” will debut this fall. Made famous for successfully revealing the ins ...