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Producer
  
Jay Dee

Ruff Draft(Reissue)(2007)
  
Jay Love Japan(2007)

Release date
  
February 2003

Genre
  
Hip hop music

Ruff Draft(2003)
  
Champion Sound(2003)

Artist
  
J Dilla

Label
  
Stones Throw Records

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Released
  
February 25, 2003 (Original)March 20, 2007 (Re-issue)

Similar
  
J Dilla albums, Hip hop music albums

J dilla let s take it back instrumental


Ruff Draft is a studio album and EP by American recording artist 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 remastered and posthumously re-released as the fourth official solo album by Stones Throw Records. The re-release sold 8,049 copies in its first week, J Dilla's largest first-week sales as a solo artist.

Contents

J dilla let s take it back


Overview

The original vinyl release of Ruff Draft is now out-of-print. Although the album is one of Jay Dee's lesser known works, it includes some of his most abstract and experimental work, all self-produced, and recorded in under a week.

As stated in the introduction of the album, it's a noncommercial sounding lo-fi hip hop album, which sees the producer playfully toying with different styles, such as on "Nothing Like This," where his vocals are distorted and skewered over an equally eccentric production featuring a sample played backwards. The result mirrors the more off-center moments on Common's Electric Circus, which Dilla also worked on.

Stones Throw Records re-issued the album on CD and vinyl on March 20, 2007. The re-release is remastered from the original master tapes, with sound engineers taking steps to maintain the original release's integrity, along with additional songs, as well as an instrumental CD.

Original 2003 EP Release

  1. "Intro"
  2. "Let's Take It Back"
  3. "Reckless Driving"
  4. "Nothing Like This"
  5. "The $"
  6. "Interlude"
  7. "Make'em NV"
  8. "Interlude"
  9. "Crushin' (Yeeeeaah!)"
  10. "Shouts"

Samples Used

  • "Lets Take It Back" contains interpolated lyrics from "Verses From the Abstract" by A Tribe Called Quest and samples of "Pause" by Jay Dee (featuring Frank-N-Dank)
  • "Reckless Driving" contains interpolated lyrics from "What?" by A Tribe Called Quest and samples of "Pause" by Jay Dee
  • "The $" contains interpolated lyrics from "Paid In Full" by Eric B & Rakim and samples of "Dooinit" by Common , "Pause" by Jay Dee and "Escape (I Need A Break)" by Whodini
  • "Make 'Em NV" contains samples of "La Rotta" by John Renbourn and "Ante Up" by M.O.P.
  • "Crushin'" contains samples of "Sweet Stuff" by Sylvia Robinson
  • "Intro (Alt.)" contains samples of "Hold You Close" by P'taah
  • "Wild" contains samples of "Cum On Feel the Noize" by Neil Innes & Son
  • "Take Notice" contains samples of "Soul Love" by David Bowie and "Phase By Phase" by Peter Baumann

    • Songs

    Intro0:19
    Let's Take It Back2:12
    Reckless Driving2:45

    References

    Ruff Draft Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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