{"product_id":"j-dilla-donuts-shop-cover-edition","title":"J Dilla - Donuts [Shop Cover Edition]","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eBy 2006, James \"J Dilla\" Yancey had already reshaped hip hop production from behind the scenes, chopping samples for Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, De La Soul, and dozens of others with a rhythmic feel that came from being a drummer as much as a beatmaker. Donuts was supposed to be a simple project, an idea to turn a batch of demos into a finished album. Instead it became one of the most quietly devastating records in hip hop history. Dilla built it from a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in and out of treatment for lupus and a rare blood disorder, and Stones Throw released it on his birthday, February 7, 2006. He turned 32 that day. He died three days later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eNone of that history is audible on the surface. Donuts is instrumental hip hop at its most joyful and strange, 31 tracks built from an encyclopedic crate of obscure soul, funk, and jazz, chopped and looped on his trusted Akai MPC into something that swings, stutters, and loops back on itself like a mind working through something too big to say directly. Samples turn into hooks turn into new samples; loops cut off mid phrase and restart; the whole record feels alive in a way most sample based music never manages, because Dilla played it as much as he programmed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eNearly twenty years on, Donuts is regarded as one of the most influential instrumental hip hop records ever made, a touchstone for producers who came after him and a devastating parting statement from an artist who kept making something joyful even as everything around him was falling apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis 20th anniversary audiophile edition presents Donuts across 2LP at 45 RPM and 180 grams, mastered from lacquers cut at Bernie Grundman and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, housed in a deluxe art printed Stoughton jacket. The definitive way to hear one of hip hop's most essential records.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redeye","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47423883051170,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/j-dilla-donuts-20th-anniversary-edition-02.png?v=1783748791","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/products\/j-dilla-donuts-shop-cover-edition","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}