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Dan Charnas
@dancharnas
Author of "Dilla Time," NYT Bestseller, winner of the 2023 PEN Literary Award for Biography | WGAe | Order: https://t.co/tHk1amqroE | Events: https://t.co/cl1kSJK6NO
Jul 29, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Courtesy of ⁦@TurntableLab⁩:

5 Incredible J Dilla Tracks That Still Ain’t Streaming (And Will Likely Never). And here they are:
1)The Fizzo
Feb 20, 2022 • 80 tweets • 18 min read
TEACHING DILLA: A NEW THREAD. Two weeks ago, I detailed my first trip to the D in 1999 to meet Jay Dee…
…Last week, I told you about my second trip to Detroit, 9 years later, in 2008 to meet my wife’s family….
Feb 13, 2022 • 66 tweets • 14 min read
Last week I told you about my first trip to Detroit, in 1999, to work with J Dilla. This week I’m going to tell you about my second trip, in 2008. On the eve of Valentine’s Day, a THREAD:

Detroit, A Love Story. First, let me tell you what happened in those 9 intervening years...
Feb 6, 2022 • 70 tweets • 15 min read
Now that "Dilla Time" is out in the world, it's finally time to tell my one and only J Dilla story.... THREAD

DillaTimeBook.com I have some history in hip-hop, which eases the work somewhat of writing hip-hop history. Still, I don’t like to drop myself in the middle of the narratives I write. But...
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Jan 30, 2022 • 29 tweets • 10 min read
Some of you have seen this symbol on my Twitter page, and on the Dilla Time website.

On the penultimate eve of the release of Dilla Time, it’s time to talk about The Triptych, and what it means…


THREAD>>> This is the Straight Time grid, representing stack of sounds in a rhythm in which all the beats are evenly spaced. /2