“Kind of reminds me of back when Josh and I started working on music together. We would listen to a lot of it on the car rides back and forth to where we were recording. We would just pop it on and tune out, man.”Watch this moment
Ruff Draft
J Dilla
Ruff Draft is an EP reissued as a studio album by American hip hop producer and rapper J Dilla released under the moniker "Jay Dee". It was originally released in February 2003 as an EP, by his then-newly founded label, Mummy Records, and distributed by Groove Attack, a German record label. In 2007, Ruff Draft was extended, remastered, and posthumously re-released as a "solo album" by Stones Throw Records.
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“I listened to this record, this 'Ruff Draft'... I was in Big Sur by myself, and I had on headphones... it just touched this thing in me so deeply. I couldn't stop crying. It was so powerful... I really love this a lot.”
Tracklist
24 tracks · 53:58 · click to preview1
Intro
0:17
2
Let's Take It Back
2:10
3
Reckless Driving
2:41
4
Nothing Like This
2:33
5
The $
2:43
6
Interlude
0:49
7
Make'em NV
2:25
8
Interlude
0:45
9
Crushin' (Yeeeeaah!)
3:43
10
Shouts
0:51
11
Intro
0:48
12
Wild
2:19
13
Take Notice (feat. Guilty Simpson)
4:25
14
Shouts
1:47
15
Let's Take It Back (Instrumental)
2:06
16
Reckless Driving (Instrumental)
2:41
17
Nothing Like This (Instrumental)
2:33
18
The $ (Instrumental)
2:45
19
Make'em NV (Instrumental)
2:24
20
Crushin' (Yeeeeaah!) [Instrumental]
3:41
21
Intro (Instrumental)
0:46
22
Wild (Instrumental)
2:21
23
Take Notice (Instrumental)
4:26
24
Shouts (Instrumental)
1:47
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