Motherlode - When I Die
i try to avoid posting sample sources, but i had to wrap up my earlier post. aside from the obvious implications in tone that making an album on one’s death bed will have, there’s an incredible amount of significance it brings to Donuts: one track for every year of his life, starting the album with a track called “Donuts (Outro)” (cause there was a definite possibility he wasn’t going to finish the album before dying), and among a ton of other shit, this final track right here. i hadn’t heard the original until after Donuts. when i finally heard the lyrics—where that ‘EEEEEE, AHHHHHH” came from—the weight of Dilla’s death hit me all over again, only that time with a much heavier feeling of intimacy. it didn’t hit as a death of a musical genius; it hit as the death of a man just as frail and with just the same basic driving motivations as the rest of us. RIP Dilla Dog.
i’ll try to get back to posting shit without commentary again, and hopefully this is the longest post you’ll ever read from me here. but i still remember exactly where i was & what i was doing this morning four years ago when i read the news. i’m struggling to think how many other events i can claim that for.
