When I got the OK to spin DAF I was shook. What could I do that hasn’t been done? How do i make my set stand out? Who am I to even take on the task of honoring the genius of James Yancey?!
After I shook off the imposters syndrome and finished sifting through his body of work I decided on playing some of my favorite Dilla lyrical moments. Sure his production is front and center of his legacy but when I decided that music was a career option I studied his style as an MC. His rhyme patterns were just as ridiculous as the ones he programmed on the MPC.
This isn’t the recording from the night I played Donuts but it’s almost song for song what I did. This is the 5th pass of a real time flaws and all practice session that I recorded for myself to learn the set and not panic while I was on stage that night.
I considered it as a road map for the evening and I’m sharing it with you so that you can take the journey with me.
