A Dilla Donut Download A Day: Feb 4th, Song #4

It's the 4th of Dilla February: i'm throwing razorblades, steel-cap boots & a tonk fist into the bowl with the dough mix today. It's a bad mood Monday. 5 days till the weekend. And your boss is the Devil's dick. Here, enjoy your rapidly decreasing 54 minutes of spiritual liberation on a Western corporate slaveship lunchbreak...


Day 4, Song 4:

Busta Rhymes - So Hardcore (Produced by Jay Dee)


I did stress it would be a hardcore initiation to the new week; we commence like Histoplasmosis-fungal-carrying-pigeons from the gutters of New York. Taking you back to '97 with this filthy little banger from Busta's second LP When Disaster Strikes.

I got scolded by two seperate individuals yesterday for posting more than 1 one Dilla produced tune (supposedly it defies a recommended daily guideline allowance of the '1 donut a day' theory)- I didn't realise the magnitude of my actions, but quite clearly my disciplined Dilla dedication and the ensuing analogy is psychologically affecting people's lives and their health... Blimey.

Thus I've had the most toilsome dilemma trying to choose which Busta/Dilla collaboration I'd vend considering the chemistry between the two has frequently manifested some vertebrae-severing masterpieces over the years from Keep It Movin' and Still Shinin' off The Coming, the Jay Dee Bounce Remix + Jay Dee Other Shit Remix of Woo-Hah!!, It's A Party (Ummah Remix), Enjoy Da Ride, Live It Up + Show Me What You Got off Anarchy, Make It Hurt off Genesis, Turn Me Up Some off It Ain't Safe No More, You Can't Hold A Torch off The Big Bang and not overlooking of course the whole motherfucking stupendous Busta Rhymes/J-Dilla/Mick Boogie Dillagence mixtape of formerly unreleased nuggets, particularly Other Side of Town and High. Can you empathise with one's plight?


A link to the Dillagence mixtape in case you weren't on dis ting like a real live son of a bitch should be:


Mick Boogie presents Dillagence (Busta Rhymes + J-Dilla)- The Mixtape (2007)


So anyway, I decided to just wallop you in your Maybelline-heavy eye sockets with some mean minimal melody, stripped-down rhythm, unyielding kick drums, stone-cold snares, Epilepsy-inducing tambourines, combined with that vintage '90s Busta cadence reminiscent of a dreddlocked rap gargoyle- damn, I miss when he had that swagger so much. And THAT Cat in the Hat hat...





Yow yow, yow yow yow...!