Was having trouble rewiring Reason into Ableton so, I went on YouTube and found this video.
Hope it helps you as much as it helped me.
Was having trouble rewiring Reason into Ableton so, I went on YouTube and found this video.
Hope it helps you as much as it helped me.
I dedicate this blog to the memory of J. Dilla aka James Dewitt Yancey
THREE YEARS AFTER HIS UNTIMELY DEATH, J DILLA'S BEATS AND REPUTATION LOOM EVER LARGER OVER HIP HOP. BUT FOR HIS MOTHER - WHO NURSED THE VISIONARY PRODUCER THROUGH A CHRONIC ILLNESS AND HAS WATCHED HIS ESTATE LANGUISH IN LIMBO - THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES.
DILLA REALIZED SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH HIS HEALTH IN JANUARY OF 2002. He'd just returned from Europe and thought he had a bad flu. Sick to his stomach and complaining of chills, Ma Dukes took him to the emergency room at Bon Secours hospital in suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. His blood platelet count should have been above 150, but it was below 10. Doctors told his mother they were surprised he was still walking around.
He tested positive for lupus, an autoimmune disease that can be fatal. To make matters worse, Detroit doctors diagnosed him with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, aka TTP, a rare disorder that causes blood clots to form in the body's blood vessels.
At summer's end, 2005, Dilla found himself in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, the same hospital where The Notorious B.I.G. and Eazy-E died. He'd lost the ability to walk and could barely talk. His own body was killing him, and there was little to be done about it.
Sensing that death was coming, he told his mother he needed his equipment in the hospital with him. Ma Dukes asked his friends from the L.A.-based label Stones Throw Records to lug his turntables, mixer, crates of records, MPC, and computer into his room. When his hands were too swollen, Ma Dukes would massage his stiffened fingers so Dilla could work on the tracks, letting his doctors listen to the beats through his headphones.
Sometimes he'd wake Ma Dukes up in the middle of the night, asking her to help move him from his bed to a reclining chair so he could work a bit more comfortably. His only focus was finishing the album. Donuts was released on Stones Throw on February 7, 2006, his 32nd birthday. Dilla died three days later.
Such a tragic story for a man who left so much good in the world. Big Up To the whole Dilla Family.
R.I.P J. Dilla you will be remembered forever!
P.S.
His younger brother is doing things with some of the beats that J Dilla made.
If you didn't know, I did a song for すばらしきこのせかい(English name is The World Ends With You) on Nintendo DS. I always wondered if people actually listen to the stuff I do and now I have my answer. Someone made a fan video for it on YouTube!
| To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems! |
I've come to a conclusion. If you want to experience a life of freedom, you cannot live from a place of fear. Every experience, every moment is different from the last. Let past experiences only inform your decisions not determine them. A life lived in fear is always limited. The parameters of your choice are as wide as those fear allow. Fear only leaves you wanting for more. Fear is the foundation or the heart of a "dream deferred". Fear clouds vision. If you can't see clear how can you ever really move forward.
I do not live a life rooted nor based in fear. When I come to a place and see that I am afraid of something, I do it; simply because I am afraid of it. I want truth to rule my life. Fear has no truth in it; half truth is not truth. T F => F
My suggestion: if your life feels limited, you are the one limiting it. You are living in fear somewhere. BE FREE!!! EMANCIPATION!!
I included a Japanese translation below but I was being lazy and used a online translator for it so, if there are any mistakes, blame Google. LOL
私は結論を出すよ。もし自由の生活を体験するには、恐怖の場所から生中継することはできません。すべての経験を、すべての瞬間は最後のとは異なります。決定はあなたの決定を通知するだけに過去の経験させてください。生活不安は常に制限されています住んでいた。恐れることも、これらのパラメータとしてお好みの広されています。恐怖心だけがさらに欠けている。恐怖の基盤や、 "夢の繰延の心臓部"です。恐怖の雲のビジョン。もしあなたが本当に前に進むことができる方法を明確に見ることができません。
私は人生根差した恐怖を拠点に生活することはありません。私が場所に来るのが怖いですが何かを参照してください、私はそれを行う;というだけの理由私はそれを恐れている。私は本当の私の人生のルールしたい。それには真実を恐れている。半分真実は真実ではない。T F => F
私の提案:もしあなたの人生限ら感じる場合は、 1つに制限されています。恐怖心のどこかに住んでいる。さ無料! ! ! EMANCIPATION ! !
| The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. |