J Dilla - Donuts CD xx1984 The long-awaited reissue of The

The long-awaited reissue of The National's first 3 releases

but while that group built themselves up over long tracks

lead archivist with Blaggards Mystic Emporium

human beings keep on inventing games

a seventeen track rap outing with the Detroit MC

J Dilla - Donuts CD xx1984 The long-awaited reissue of TheDonuts began simply enough as an idea to turn a particularly good demo beat tape into a full length release, and has since became a classic hip hop album, one of the defining works of the artist's life. Completed during a year in which J Dilla spent mostly in a hospital bed at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Donuts would gain particular poignancy when, only three days after it's release, February 10, 2006, the artist passed away, losing