![]() A famous story revolves around stolen credit for what would’ve been his biggest hit: Janet Jackson’s “Got ’Til It’s Gone” bears so many hallmarks of a Yancey production-the Fender Rhodes melody, the bouncing bassline, the Q-Tip cosign-that it must have come from his fingertips and not those of credited producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. ![]() His sense of rhythm and timing is among the most interesting musical innovations of the past quarter-century, influencing pop music and jazz at the same time, but his genius in that regard is often boiled down to a single anecdote: that he shunned the mechanical rigidity of his digital sampler and operated it with a natural touch. The life story of James Dewitt Yancey-the influential hip-hop producer from Detroit who rose to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s first as Jay Dee and later as J Dilla-is inextricably tied to the myths told about him. ![]()
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