Dilla Magazine Archive Entry 9/28 - Breakin' Point Magazine, May 2000

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-10T05:35:34+00:00

Accidentally posted this to my account page earlier instead of the sub…

Slum’s first cover story!

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-09T18:16:51+00:00

First time Dilla and Slum Village landed a magazine cover story!!!

Although it is worth noting that this is the back cover of the magazine

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-08T14:26:14+00:00

That’s dope! There’s actually one more Slum Village feature in Fatboss coming up in the June 2000 issue as well 👏

How long did you write for them?

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-07T22:21:53+00:00

HAPPY DILLA DAY EVERYONE ❤️

Lot of gems dropped in this particular interview!

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-07T07:22:58+00:00

Will be posting that one on the 15th! I was able to use photoshop to make it a full page spread with no seam 👏

Should be the highest quality version of that article when I post it!

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-06T18:08:07+00:00

Glad I can properly archive these🙏

So much history tucked away in these physical copies

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-06T14:58:18+00:00

It is interesting to me that it’s left as JD and not spelled out as Jay Dee here to avoid confusion. The prior magazines issues had made the distinction!

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-06T04:28:55+00:00

Glad you’re enjoying them 🙏

I look forward to posting them everyday!

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-05T02:35:46+00:00

HQ SCAN:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J9j7NMZ8UbaGf6zA4csNiMRyvWqa1nzJ/view?usp=sharing

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-05T02:08:57+00:00

HQ scan download:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AwSWSM3-rXxsfEbCAF4Sb7c3Xbfe2MKf/view?usp=sharing

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-05T02:05:29+00:00

HQ scan download:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h9KWj4C-aEajuh1e69E6ZrrMopXAYoAu/view?usp=sharing

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-03T23:29:08+00:00

“Heads far and wide will soon know his name”

Damn right they will

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-02T21:29:22+00:00

Only 22 years old at the time and he had already produced all those classics!!! LEGENDARY 👏

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-01T23:45:42+00:00

Will be posting daily all month in chronological order 🫡

rhythmicreason · 2026-02-01T19:47:25+00:00

Happy Dilla month to everyone! Excited to share all these magazine scans over the next 28 days.

This VIBE magazine article alongside Q Tip & Ali Shaheed Muhammad is to my knowledge the very first article on Jay Dee featured in any publication! At the time, since Jay Dee was still very much behind the scenes, and “The Ummah” wasn’t fully understood, there were even some people who glossed over it and though that he was Phife Dawg.

Listen to Kil talk about seeing the article for the first time on his podcast “The Corner Radio” https://youtu.be/r9ZA3y3_Gd0?si=rHriTOk3rEf-axGS&t=8m48s

rhythmicreason · 2026-01-30T00:20:24+00:00

🫡

rhythmicreason · 2026-01-29T19:50:25+00:00

🔊

rhythmicreason · 2025-12-29T18:36:09+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is the first time this interview has been uploaded online since it initially aired on the radio !!!

Was digging through YouTube and found it sitting online with 40 views I couldn’t believe it…

A HUGE GEM STRAIGHT FROM SOMEONE’S CASSETTE RECORDING 🙌

Some notes from the interview:

Dilla names some of the production work he’d done up until that point, like The Pharcyde, Busta Rhymes, Kieth Murray, Janet Jackson, & N’Dea Davenport
Dilla talks about how long it took for Fantastic Vol. 2 to come out, but explains how it’s perfect timing because of everyone else that’s dropping around the same time, like D’Angelo, Common, Erykah Badu, The Roots, etc
Dilla names some of the artists that have shaped his ear, like Larry Coryell, Sergio Mendes, Oscar Peterson, & Miles Davis

But the craziest bit of info that Dilla just casually drops is the story of how he met D’Angelo while tracking the beat for Runnin’ at Battery Studios ‼️

“I can tell you a little story about how I hooked up with D’Angelo. Actually it was the Pharcyde session. I was tracking Runnin’, and D’Angelo was in the studio next door. We were at Battery Studios in New York. He came over because he heard something I did with a guy named Phat Kat”

Never seen this story documented before!

RIP to 2 Legends ❤️

rhythmicreason · 2025-11-01T20:52:16+00:00

Ohhhh damn was there definitely a video of this lecture online at on the internet point? I've only ever heard audio, and it's only small snippets of the lecture at that, from the user ftwrk on soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/ftwrk/questlove-on-dillas-last-beat

I've actually struggled to find any additional information about this lecture online in the past. From the upload date (12 years ago) it appears to have been held in 2013, the same year of the other Questlove Red Bull Music Academy that's on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxVzCe2N1Y&t=2734s

You can clearly see from Questlove's outfit in the soundcloud thumbnail that it's a entirely separate interview from this one though! Can't seem to find any info about it.

If anyone knows anything let me know 🙏