Re: Album of the day (#7329): Donuts by J Dilla

DommeDamian — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:24:58 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 07/23/2026 20:24

Noice.

Re: Album of the day (#7329): Donuts by J Dilla

HoldenM — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:10:05 GMT

Author: HoldenM

Posted: 07/23/2026 20:10

A rhapsody of such imagination and joy. As much an encapsulation of one artist's taste and precision as a plunderphonics journey that feels so singular and that brings you so far in it exists out of time.

Track picks
2. Workinonit
6. Stop
9. Mash
10. Time: The Donut Of The Heart
12. Airworks
13. Lightworks
25. Walkinonit
28. Hi.
29. Bye.
30. Last Donut Of The Night
31. Donuts (Intro)

Album of the day (#7329): Donuts by J Dilla

BestEverAlbums — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:25 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 07/23/2026 20:00

Today's album of the day

Donuts by J Dilla (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2006.
Country:
J Dilla discography rank: 1 (out of 16 listed on BEA)
2006 rank: 6
2000s rank: 66
Overall rank: 413
Average rating: 81/100 (from 534 votes).

Tracks:
1. Donuts (Outro)
2. Workinonit
3. Waves
4. Light My Fire
5. The New
6. Stop
7. People
8. The Diff'rence
9. Mash
10. Time: The Donut Of The Heart
11. Glazed
12. Airworks
13. Lightworks
14. Stepson Of The Clapper
15. The Twister (Huh, What)
16. One Eleven
17. Two Can Win
18. Don't Cry
19. Anti-American Graffiti
20. Geek Down
21. Thunder
22. Gobstopper
23. One For Ghost
24. Dilla Says Go
25. Walkinonit
26. The Factory
27. U-Love
28. Hi.
29. Bye.
30. Last Donut Of The Night
31. Donuts (Intro)

indicates a top-rated track.

Top voted comments:

"On the 7th of February 2006, after around 4 months of label disputes J Dilla's 'Donuts' was finally released.
3 days later he was dead.

Donuts is so much more than just a beat tape, it's the final swan-song of a dying man who felt that in his final moments he had to push himself into making something worth being remembered by. 29 out of the 31 tracks were recorded from a hospital bed in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with nothing but an Boss SP-303 small 45 record player his friends had brought him as a gift, Dilla was undergoing treatment for TPP and lupus, records that his mother would bring him were used as the sources of the sampling for the album. It's a common complaint that all of the songs here are too short and fleeting, but to me it's perfect. It's sort of hauntingly symbolic of how life itself is too short and fleeting, but personal meaning aside, every song here is so lush and beautiful, tiny little details are spread across all 31 tracks, it's impossible to listen to them and not hear something new. I wish they could go on forever. I really do.

I am not worthy of listening to this. I can't even believe this thing exists. I listen to this and I think about how terrifying death is, how scared Dilla must have been. there are no words to describe how breathtaking this music is.

fuck.
RIP."
- YEEZY (Rating: 100/100)
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"Reading up on the making of this album made it so much more personal and hardhitting."
- Sometype
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Re: Album of the day (#7329): Donuts by J Dilla

Re: Album of the day (#7329): Donuts by J Dilla

Album of the day (#7329): Donuts by J Dilla