Video: Rich Medina Speaks on Dilla Making “History”

Rich Medina and Waajeed held a heavy conversation on how J Dilla’s sound changed in his latter years. On making “History,” (off of Mos Def’s 2009 album Ecstatic) Rich Medina said that “[Dilla] was really using the accent on the words as keys.” As J Dilla’s lupus got progressively worse, Medina says that one could tell based on his melancholy choice of samples. For reference, the track samples Mary Wells’ “Two Lovers History.”

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