{"id":207328,"date":"2025-02-07T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=207328"},"modified":"2025-02-08T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:38:50","slug":"j-dilla-honored-with-his-own-street-and-day-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/j-dilla-honored-with-his-own-street-and-day-in-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"J Dilla Honored With His Own Street And Day in Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Dilla Day to all Hip-Hop heads of the world! The late, great prodigy that is <strong>James Dewitt Yancey<\/strong>, a.k.a.<strong> J Dilla<\/strong>, was honored in his hometown of Detroit with his own day, and a street named after him. His birthday, February 7th, will now officially be recognized as &#8220;J Dilla Day&#8221; in Detroit. Today also marks 19 years since the release of Jay Dee&#8217;s iconic album, &#8220;Donuts,&#8221; which inspired a wide array of musicians, across many genres. It was released on his 32nd birthday, just three days before his untimely passing in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rest in peace, J Dilla.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">J Dilla &#8211; Donuts (Full Album)<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=XNwLvwmTEP4mz7D-&amp;list=OLAK5uy_m8VPjbn9rF3ninCB-n_ToxxHH5U3_TkvE\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Dilla Day to all Hip-Hop heads of the world! The late, great prodigy that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":207329,"comment_status":"closed","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":[13,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/J-Dilla-Day-Thumbnail.webp?fit=932%2C524&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-RW0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207328","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}