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Kanye West Talks Working with Madlib, J Dilla’s Influence

Posted on May 29th, 2014
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Kanye West

Stone Throw Record’s documentary entitled Our Vinyl Weighs  Ton tells the story of  the independent music label now available on blu-ray and DVD. The label has now released additional footage that didn’t make the cut for the actual film that includes more behind-the-scenes footage from DJ Peanut Butter Wolf as well as an interview with Kanye West.

Kanye talks about his experience working with Madlib (around the 21:40 mark) and how he wants to get some music from him for his next projects. He then went on to talk about J Dilla’s legacy and what he’s doing to uphold it (24:00 mark) which all comes from Rolling Stone.

“It’s amazing: How could we lose Biggie, Pac, Dilla, Steve Jobs, Michael Jackson? It almost feels like the devil’s winning. We gotta make music and we think, ‘If Dilla was alive, would he like this?’ I have to work on behalf of Dilla. When I put a weird-ass Jamaican sample, it works at first but it’s not until I put the [makes discordant musical noise] that it sounds like art or sounds slightly wrong. And now it’ll go to the radio now that it’s wrong, motherfucker. Now play this. Play this five-minute song that completely fucks up your programming. Play this. It’s best respect that we can pay to great artists that have inspired us so much is to never fuckin’…never sell out.”

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