Name: Jay Stay Paid
Brand: J Dilla

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

I-NSD42-DLX

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-03-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Fatbeats

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

822720714216

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

J Dilla

Genre US

Hip Hop

Label US

"The source material on Jay Stay Paid runs the gamut from 90s Ummah-era loops to beats Dilla was putting together from his hospital bed, but it stylistically falls in a general area that fits best between the dense but crisp boom-bap of his early-aughts material (i.e., Welcome 2 Detroit and Slum Village's Fantastic, Vol. 2) and the grimier, more frenetic beat-tape rawness of his Jaylib/Donuts L.A. phase. That latter aesthetic tends to permeate the surface here, filtered through a loose radio-show concept that interjects some actual disk jockey shoutouts, comedic asides, and brief interjections from the man himself. That bugged-out hyperkineticism keeps things moving, but it doesn't reduce the beats to ADD afterthoughts: Early scene-setting moments like the stuttering elasticity of the organ-riff loop in "King", the glowering Minimoog g-funk retrofuturism of "I Told Y'all", and the Morse-code keyboard of "Lazer Gunne Funke" don't run too long, but they sink in deeply."

Jay Stay Paid

Music US