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Donuts (Music)
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Donuts is the second studio album released by American Hip-Hop producer J Dilla, and the final album released in his lifetime before his untimely death as a result of a rare blood disease and lupus. Largely in the instrumental hip hop genre, composed of remixed sampled content, the album was released on February 7, 2006, his 32nd birthday, and three days before his death.In this sense, the album essentially functioned as Dilla's goodbye to his loved ones, his fans, and all of the hip-hop community. While the theme of mortality doesn't overtly manifest in the album's tracks, death definitely forms a conceptual undertone, what with some of the sample choices Dilla makes, and the album being structured as a perfect loop.The album was kickstarted primarily by Dilla's friends from the Los Angeles-based indie label Stones Throw visiting him in the hospital during summer 2005 and giving him a Boss SP-303 sampler and a 45 record player so he could continue making music in the hospital. Dilla ended up completing almost all of the album (29 of the 31 tracks) in the hospital.In terms of current-day legacy, the beats on Donuts have been used by a number of different rappers since the album's release. Also, as the album was named after Dilla's favorite food, donuts have become a lasting trademark for him, such that his uncle Herman Hayes started a donut shop in Detroit 10 years after its release named Dilla's Delights. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: Of Dilla himself, taken from a frame of the music video for M.E.D.'s "Push", which Dilla produced. | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: The vinyl cover of the album is rather simplistic, only consisting of a donut shop with a massive donut statue on top, a few lampposts, and a plane flying overhead. | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: A majority of the tracks are 1-2 minutes. | |
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Recurring Riff: A variant; there's an alarm sound first introduced in "Workinonit" that is then heard multiple times throughout the album. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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The album itself. Overlapping with Bittersweet Ending, Donuts was consciously crafted as a farewell to his fans and colleagues as his health rapidly deteriorated throughout 2005 because of lupus and an incurable blood disease. He lived just long enough to see it released on his thirty-second birthday, but died just three days after. | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: Due to the eclectic sampling of the album, there are a number of different sounds that Dilla plays with, from normal hip-hop to tribal music. His mother has even testified that during production, he went over each beat to ensure that it was something unique. | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: The main crux of the album, with samples from a multitude of sources and genres being utilized in Dilla's beats. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The album has a cyclical and reversible nature. Its intro and outro being switched may seem tongue-in-cheek upon first glance, but it's actually pretty ingenious; the last two tracks of Donuts ("Last Donut of the Night" and "Welcome to the Show") make sense when interpreted both as the album's openers and closers, considering the nature of the album positions them both at the start and end simultaneously. | |
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Sequel Song: "Stepson of the Clapper" is a follow-up to "The Clapper" from Dilla's debut, Welcome 2 Detroit. | |
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Nonindicative Name: The first track is called "Donuts (Outro)", while the final track is called "Donuts (Intro)". | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: "One For Ghost", which is a beat Ghostface Killah would sample soon after on his song "Whip You With a Strap." | |
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The Immodest Orgasm | |
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The Immodest Orgasm: Female moans can be heard throughout "Workinonit" and "Time: The Donut of the Heart". | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: Although "Workinonit" is only 3 minutes long, it feels like this since it's surrounded by one or two-minute tracks. | |
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Back to Front | |
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Back to Front: The album begins with its outro and ends with its intro. | |
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Repurposed Pop Song | |
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Repurposed Pop Song: "Geek Down" and "Bye." (the latter under the title "So Far to Go") later appeared on Dilla's posthumous album The Shining a year later, with vocals from Busta Rhymes, Common, D'Angelo, and Dilla himself. Common and D'Angelo would release a different version of "So Far to Go" on the former's 2007 album Finding Forever. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: A snippet of the start of "Lightworks" plays around the very end of "Airworks". | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: "Time: The Donut of the Heart" isn't the first time Dilla got to work with some of Michael Jackson's material. | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: One interpretation of "Welcome to the Show" paints it as a representation of Dilla crossing over into the next life, or the "show". | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Workinonit", "Waves", "Stop", "People", "Mash", "Glazed", "Airworks", "Lightworks", "Thunder", "Gobstopper", "Walkinonit", "Hi", "Bye". | |
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Instrumental Hip Hop | |
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Instrumental Hip Hop: Most of the tracks, if the vocals in the samples don't count. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Several tracks from Donuts appeared on a now-extremely-rare 2005 beat tape. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: A lot of the tracks flow into each other surprisingly well, given the variety of sounds on this album. | |
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Alternate Album Cover | |
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Alternate Album Cover: The CD release of the album depicts a headshot of Dilla, while the LP release features a drawing of a donut shop. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Some tracks are named after actual types of donut flavors, or given donut themed names. | |
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Cross-Referenced Titles | |
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Cross-Referenced Titles: "Workinonit" and "Walkinonit", "Airworks" and "Lightworks", and "Hi" and "Bye". | |
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