Donuts (studio album)
by J Dilla

From Larcx13 09/06/2024 18:42 | #305160

The tracks are too short to rate this album per track... I also always zone out when I'm listening to this, so I can almost never tell when the track changes... it's as if this album is one giant instrumental track. Maybe it sounds like I'm criticizing it but nope... I'm definitely praising it. This is something else.

From VictorVale 01/05/2023 21:40 | #292528

Bagunça boa pra porra!

From seb7 05/09/2021 17:00 | #269526

Great instrumental album. There is genius and death in those beats.

lo-fi hip-hop pioneer??

From Timestarter 02/07/2021 12:31 | #265954

Happy 15th Anniversary To This Album!

Fav. Tracks:

- Workinonit
- Waves
- Light My Fire
- Stop
- The Diff'rence
- Time: The Donut Of The Heart
- Glazed
- One Eleven
- Two Can Win
- Don't Cry
- Anti-American Graffiti
- Dilla Says Go
- Last Donut Of The Night
- Welcome To The Show / Donuts (Intro)

From planetneutral 01/21/2021 21:33 | #264809

This is cool in and of itself, but it's more resonant when you know something about the context in which it was made.

From teague 06/15/2020 23:23 | #253607

Donuts is an incredibly sad last effort by J Dilla. This album is amazing.

From YEEZY 11/04/2019 00:04 | #244416

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.

One of the records that got me into listening to hip hop music in general.

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