J Dilla in the studio of fellow producer Madlib. Pokemon Shiny Gold Gba Rom Download Coolrom. Roger Erickson/Courtesy of the artist Visionary hip-hop producer J Dilla never found mainstream success during his brief lifetime. But in the seven years since his death, Dilla — who would have turned 39 today — has come to represent a major inflection point on hip-hop's evolutionary tree. At his peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he suggested syntheses that hadn't seemed possible. He played fresh games with texture and tone. He recast the sample as a malleable component, rather than the monochromatic backbone it had seemed to be.

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And he injected a softened, swaggering humanity into the rigid slap of classic hip-hop drumbeats. His magnum opus, Donuts, was last month, and the posthumous Music From the Lost Scrolls Vol. 1 on Tuesday — the first in a series of previously unreleased recordings.

In Detroit on Saturday, the rapper Talib Kweli, violinist and arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, and a handful of other artists will perform at the second annual, a concert celebrating Dilla's career. Dilla's reach stretches way beyond hip-hop: For one, he's recently cast a long shadow over contemporary jazz. He never belonged to jazz's inner circle, but since his death in 2006 from a rare blood disease, his legacy has helped pull the genre back into kissing contact with modern popular music. The jazz world today finds itself swamped with young talent in the discourse of contemporary culture. The shift has roots that run in a lot of directions. It's a reaction to the neo-traditional revivalism that capped the last century, and to jazz's withered commercial infrastructure in the wake of the 1990s CD bubble.

Add to that the simple fact that millennial jazz musicians grew up listening mostly to hip-hop, R&B and rock. The crush of these influences on jazz was a matter of when, not if. But no movement takes hold without a hero, and J Dilla has filled that role. 'Pretty much anybody else in hip-hop — from Jay-Z to Kanye [West] — you can tell a musician you don't like them and it'll be like, 'Okay, cool,' says Kenneth Whalum III, a jazz saxophonist who tours with the R&B singer Maxwell. 'If you go into that same setting saying you don't like Dilla, it's not okay for you to be there anymore.' He's kidding, but only by half. A Human Encyclopedia So what set Dilla apart?