{"id":106102,"date":"2016-05-21T15:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T13:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=106102"},"modified":"2016-05-21T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T13:26:42","slug":"video-the-making-of-j-dillas-the-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-the-making-of-j-dillas-the-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Making of J Dilla&#8217;s &#8220;The Diary&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hG-yzX9eEM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Diary was Dilla\u2019s attempt to take advantage of the attention afforded him after his brightest period as a behind-the-scenes hit-maker and influencer. However, the project stalled and the album was literally shelved, the reels languishing in storage in Detroit as a relocated Dilla began a creative renaissance in Los Angeles. The Diary in this, its final form, was painstakingly assembled over a ten year period from two-track mixdowns and multi-track masters found in J Dilla\u2019s archives after his death in 2006. The completion of The Diary was overseen by The Estate of James Yancey\u2019s Creative Director Eothen Alapatt, long term general manager of Stones Throw Records and A&#038;R for Donuts and Jaylib, whose previous archival Dilla work includes the expanded Ruff Draft issue from 2008. The Estate of James Yancey is overseen by California\u2019s Probate Court on behalf of Yancey\u2019s four heirs \u2013 his mother, Maureen \u201cMadukes\u201d Yancey, his brother John \u201cIlla J\u201d Yancey and his two daughters, Ja\u2019Mya Yancey and Ty-monae Whitlow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappcats.com\/making-of-j-dilla-diary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rappcats<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"106104\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-the-making-of-j-dillas-the-diary\/2016-05-21-03-25-11-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-21-03.25.11-pm.png?fit=635%2C354&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"635,354\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Video: The Making of J Dilla&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;The Diary&amp;#8221;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-21-03.25.11-pm.png?fit=540%2C301&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-21-03.25.11-pm.png?fit=635%2C354&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-21-03.25.11-pm.png?fit=640%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Video: The Making of J Dilla&#039;s &quot;The Diary&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-21-03.25.11-pm.png?resize=540%2C301&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-21-03.25.11-pm.png?w=635&amp;ssl=1 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diary was Dilla\u2019s attempt to take advantage of the attention afforded him after his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-rBk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}