{"id":144073,"date":"2026-02-05T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:01:08","slug":"tampa-producers-to-honor-j-dilla-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144073\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa producers to honor J Dilla on the 20th anniversary of his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"263676\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/seminole-heights-pizza-and-beer-bar-hosts-j-dilla-celebration-on-wednesday-17174853\/attachment\/j_dilla_by_roger_erickson_for_stones_throw-5e3b126633892\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/j_dilla_by_roger_erickson_for_stones_throw.5e3b126633892.png?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"j_dilla_by_roger_erickson_for_stones_throw.5e3b126633892\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;J Dilla&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/j_dilla_by_roger_erickson_for_stones_throw.5e3b126633892.png?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/j_dilla_by_roger_erickson_for_stones_throw.5e3b126633892.png?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/j_dilla_by_roger_erickson_for_stones_throw.5e3b126633892.png\" alt=\"A candid indoor shot of a person with a beard wearing a grey-and-black baseball cap, a black long-sleeved shirt, and a silver chain. They are looking to the side with a concentrated expression. The background is filled with musical equipment and media, including a large upright bass, a drum cymbal in the foreground, and shelves packed with vinyl records and electronics.\" class=\"wp-image-263676\"  \/>J Dilla Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jdillaofficial\/photos\/a.10151151952056069\/10151251339156069\/?id=5792106068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Erickson \/ Stones Throw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Dewitt Yancey would have been 52 years old this month. In 1997 the Detroit producer, who died on Feb. 10, 2006, made a choice that would change the course of hip hop and modern jazz: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/rayroa.bsky.social\/post\/3lq74aoqv2k2b\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/rayroa.bsky.social\/post\/3lq74aoqv2k2b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taking his drum machine off-beat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The small tweak rippled through three decades of music to push organic and mechanical sound together, influencing beat making and pop music as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the 20th anniversary of the famed hip-hop producer\u2019s death, heads will coalesce in Ybor City where DJs Kelan and Dfaz play a B2B set of classics and exclusives by the legendary maestro.<\/p>\n<p>Because Dilla shares a birthday with him performers at this open-aux event will also pay tribute to Japanese lo-fi hip-hop god Nujabes who also died too young on Feb. 26, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/jan-29-feb-04\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 29 \u2013 Feb. 04<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSelene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/selene\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Selene San Felice\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J Dilla Credit: Roger Erickson \/ Stones Throw James Dewitt Yancey would have been 52 years old this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7523,69867,1864,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-144073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crowbar","tag-j-dilla","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}