March 23 MADVILLAIIM Madvillainy (Stones Throw) Two of the most sweated. Welcome to the Show Donuts 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 artists life.
But it's an unmistakably modern album, and one which perfectly encapsulated the artist's reputation among his peers and fans as a top-rated architect of soulful hip-hop. Of Wisdom' all add up to an album that's concise and lyrically honest. Without exaggeration, this is one of the greatest meeting of the minds of this whole SP1200-abusing, dusty record-digg. I dont know how Stones Throw are going to top this. It plays part like a DJ mix, part like a hip-hop beat maker at work, its songs starting and stopping unexpectedly, like someone turning the dial on an imaginary radio station. Special 10 year anniversary pressing of Madvillains opus now with metallic cover Here is what we had to say when the album originally came out.
Donuts 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.Ĭompleted 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 his battle with a rare blood disease.Īnnounced in Fall 2005, the concept of a “rap album without rappers” struck some as minor novelty, but Donuts would prove to transcend the rigid definitions of what a hip-hop album could be.