Top Ten J. Dilla Beats

He was the hidden genius behind a lot of artists great productions, so what's your top 10?

Slum Village - Get Dis Money
Guilty Simpson - Stress
J Dilla - Don't Cry
The Pharcyde - Runnin
Q-Tip - Lets Ride
A Tribe Called Quest - Find A Way
Common - Love Is...
De La Soul - Much More
J Dilla - Airworks
J Dilla - King

Dwight wrote:

Slum Village - Get Dis Money
Guilty Simpson - Stress
J Dilla - Don't Cry
The Pharcyde - Runnin
Q-Tip - Lets Ride
A Tribe Called Quest - Find A Way
Common - Love Is...
De La Soul - Much More
J Dilla - Airworks
J Dilla - King

I'm not that big on Dilla, but I gotta cosign Stress by Guily Simpson. First time Slang posted that song in his thread, I couldn't believe how crazy that beat was.

Wow, I expected to return and find more entries. Shocker.

I will do my list later. Too many dope beats.

Common- The Light
Slum Village- Players
Bilal- Reminisce
Slum Village- Fall in Love
J Dilla- Time- The Donut of the Heart (all time favorite from Dilla. Classic joint right here!)
J Dilla- One for Ghost
Common- So Far to Go
Jaylib- The Red
Guilty Simpson- Baby
De La Soul - Much More

I know I'm missing a lot more. Dilla is a legend in my book.

EDIT: smnuts I forgot Pharcyde- Runnin'. That joint is classic, right up there among my favorite Dilla beats.

Esco wrote:

First time Slang posted that song in his thread, I couldn't believe how crazy that beat was.

That was the first time I'd heard that track. Now it's easily in my top ten Dilla joints.

Dwight wrote:

Esco wrote:

First time Slang posted that song in his thread, I couldn't believe how crazy that beat was.

That was the first time I'd heard that track. Now it's easily in my top ten Dilla joints.

yea same when i posted it it was previously unreleased, probably recorded before Guilty's debut if i had to guess....love that song

hmmm in no particular order:

De La Soul-Much More
A Tribe Called Quest-Find A Way
The Pharcyde-Runnin'
Common-The Light
Q-Tip-Let's Ride
Busta Rhymes/Q-Tip-You Can't Hold The Torch
Common-So Far To Go
Dilla-King
Slum Village-Get Dis Money
Slum Village-Selfish

A Tribe Called Quest- 1nce Again
De La Soul- Stakes Is High
Common- Thelonius
Common- The Light
The Pharcyde- Runnin
Q-Tip- Vivrant Thing
The Roots- Dynamite
A Tribe Called Quest- Get A Hold
De La Soul- Much More
Slum Village- Players

Again, don't feel like thinking of 10. Two of my favorites are criminally underrated, IMO.

Busta Rhymes, Papoose, Cassidy- Psycho
Akrobatik, Talib Kweli- Put Ya Stamp On It (or Digi Dirt from JSP, same beat with vocal samples thrown in)