32:20 I literally agreed with you. I go against the claim they are the "godfathers" of lofi, the connection is simply their fanbase. Sorry about the clickbait lol, gotta do what you what to do. But not really sorry, since I do think Dilla is the "dad" of a lot of producers and sub genres.
Whenever I see someone claiming they are Lofi, I immediately think culture vultures gentrifying an art form. This is boom bap / Jazz Rap HIP HOP at its truest form!
Dude, Dilla and Nujabes are just traditional hip hop producers and legends. I’m 46 so I’ve been listening to Dilla since he was Jay Dee in 1995 and Nujabes since 2000 producing for Funky DL and Shing02. I just call them Hip Hop bro. Peace ✌🏿
You would assume two artists who share oddly similar styles would know of each other The haunting essence of the beats they create perfectly capture nostalgia, memories and emotional distress in a way which cannot be described They are able to take a sample and bring out so much of the deeper notes and rhythms May their legacies carry on
I live in Tokyo, and can still feel the love for him to this day. Many of my Japanese friends say he's darely missed here. He is the late legend we never deserved.
Meu Deus! Eu sabiaaa, tinha um feeling que você era brasileiro. Brigadão pelo conteúdo, é absurdamente muito bem produzido. Amo seus vídeos, apesar de me considerar apenas apreciador e nada técnico em musicalidade. Aquele seu vídeo sobre aruarian dance tá enraizado no meu coração
Another great video brother. Thanks for all your sample breakdowns. I really wish i was as capable of doing this type of analysis to apply it to my music making. Cant wait to hear whats next from you.
I cannot thank you enough for making this video and the hard work you put in research for it ❤ Am a big fan of both of them but especially grew up with the music of Nujabes from the early 2000s on and still am listening to it daily. It‘s my heart beat. ❤ Thank you :)
I also found these two through youtube. It's crazy how this platform allows true talent to rise to the surface, even posthumously. Forever will be vibing to these legends!
@@halfpint90 can't argue that the opportunity is there. Compared to the work the underground artists had to put in to market themselves, RU-vid is way easier to get into
It is a double edge sword, yeah you gotta do some stuff that isn't relate to just creating to find success i.e. my channel, but still opportunity is there to build something from nothing and connect with the whole world
Love the way you’ve integrated your sample breakdowns into these legendary stories 👌🏻 editing and visuals are class too! Incredible amount of hard-work all building up to this point with the hour-long Dilla breakdown video and this. Insane man 👏🏼 Honoured to have a few unreleased beats feature in this! Particularly enjoyed the ending as well! 👀 Excited to see where this next chapter leads you! 🙌🏼
Can't wait to listen to this once I'm done with work today. We appreciate your hard work man, both Nujabes and Dilla are two artists I wish I could've seen live before they passed, but they live forever in their art.
As someone who makes lofi as their job and major hobby, I love the video so far. Love to see stuff like this being created. Did a cool thing here man. Since you like beats and basketball, I'd highly recommend listening to Mutombo records tracks. Their whole label is basketball themed.
Years ago this stuff was simply called “hip hop”. This “lo fi” umbrella term is nosense when we talk about j dilla and other boom bap producers. There’s nothing lo fi about this world. They made hard knocking hip hop sample based beats.
I think so too, but truth be told, lofi girl, was the entry drug to most who discovered Nujabes and Dilla in the late 10th band and early 20th. And when people like MF Doom, DiBiase and the like site him as an influence, I guess there us some truth in it. Sometime you can father a child against your knowing so.
True. Hip Hop beats of the past had that lofi aesthetic due to the fact that the samplers of the era couldn’t sample at a high bit rate to make the samples cleaner. It was just good ol’ Hip Hop back then and that’s it.
@@NarokxDon't get bogged down by the youtube hustle brother. your videos have such high quality that I'm sure you're gonna make it. Keep up the grind. Looking forward to hearing what you can do!
37:47 I want to specify that Dilla did sample one particular Japanese song for a beat AFAIK. It is Yutaka Yokokura's 1978 song, Evening Star, being flipped to a beat in his '99 beat tape, The New Slaves colloquially known as "I'm So Glad You're Dorothy" or Jay Dee 45 officially. So... He probably had tapped into Japan music much earlier than Jay Loves Japan. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Towa Tei, the musician that Dilla sampled for Find My Way, Japanese? So... Maybe he know Nujabes through him? But then the timeline wouldn't match up if that's the case.
I was also reaching trying to find a way to at least assume that Dilla knew about Nujabes, but unless someone who was close to him says something, I think all we can do is speculate
Lo-fi is a descriptive word. It literally means Low Fidelity. Dilla requested that Dave Cooley who used to mix for Madlib at the time to give his music that "cassette" feel. Added to that, Dilla had a range of styles not limited to lo-fi. He also had beats with a hi-fi commercial sound. Examples of lo-fi projects by Dilla include and are not limited to Ruff Drafts and Donuts.
lofi is definitely an amazing genre of music but no matter what, the meticulous techniques of dilla and sebajun makes lofi a watered down version of their music. don’t hate me.
I was looking for a Madlib mention and I wholeheartedly agree. He was doing his thing professionally before Nujabes and he had that heavy lofi sound way before it became its own genre. He was the influence for Dilla switching to the raw style that was used for "Donuts" (this isn't to say Jay didn't have a lofi style before that album). Not to take away from Nujabes contributions but someone like Madlib has a heavier influence on the genre. "The Unseen" is a great example of the sound that helped to bring about lofi hip hop as a subgenre.
To me I took a detour via Bristol and Belgium, with bands like Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Red Snapper and the Sneaker Pimps (with Kelli Ali/Dayton) and Hooverphonic. And DJs like DJ Shadow and Howie B. Then to Erykah and via her to JD. But that last step took 10 years and involved a virus lockdown, a post from Grimes on Instagram, a few samplers new and old, two funerals, and a rehash of my studio, now in the box and then out of it via a Polish sampler and rehash of an old friend. So now I own a ticket to an upcoming SlumVillage concert in my home town in backwater The Netherlands.
I wish I could mention him more often, but he personally told me not to, soooo I feel kind of weird diving deeper into his stuff... I had a lot more to say about him, similar to what I did with Funky DL, and Sub, but again gotta respect the man's wishes
@@Narokx Thats so interesting, Fat Jon is my guy, that always makes me mad when people overlook his part in samurai champloo, interesting that the man himself didnt want to be mentioned. Shoutout to Fat Jon though, he's a legend
That’s no slight to you, I mean in general by all the lofi enthusiasts that pray to Nujabes only. It just reminds me of the “Dilla changed my life! Who is Slum Village?” meme @@Narokx
No they both made hip hop music, using more jazzy samples and tones but still pretty much classical hip hop, why do we need to change it into something it wasn't.
Agradeço mesmo por falar mais sobre eles. Mas mano também a música de hip hop de bondade do brasil. Na parada do boom bap como o pumapjl e SonoTWS. música lave a alma mano, é isso onde eu quero econtrar. Nunca para de criar
Artists like 9thwonder & Flying Lotus definitely didden’t came later in the youtube world of beats , they were the biggest upcoming names at the moment youtube started, the type beats thing only became a thing years later
idk man, my experience was different. I was listening to type beats in 2011, the oldest 9th wonder instrumentals on this website are a bit younger than that. I think at most they came around at the same time.
i'm really sure since i was listening them and bought records they did when i was stil in school, even went to my first festival in the summer to see flying lotus at 15/16 and i finished school in 2008. I guess it's just different depending on musical interests & what you were looking for at the time but they were definitely big names in this genre of hip hop & beatmakers@@Narokx
