2LP Edition Release Date: 19/3/2001 Label: BBE Music
Description
Welcome 2 Detroit was James Dewitt Yancey aka Jay Dee’s first solo outing and the debut appearance of his new ‘J Dilla’ moniker
The numerous guest appearances from some of the city’s best MCs at the time — Beej, Big Tone, Elzhi, Frank N Dank, Phat Kat — added to the album’s immersive experience, offering listeners a taste of Detroit in a way that only Jay Dee could do
The album would prove to be the perfect distillation of Dilla’s Detroit. From Kraftwerk- inspired Tech Noir that would make Metroplex proud, through subtle echoes from Africa, live jazz-funk and bossa-nova grooves, to tough Midwest boom-bap, this record somehow showed reverence to the city’s past without ever leaving its present. Grimy street flows that somehow swayed like James Brown. Unquantized marvels, so free and alive in their bounce, that they could seduce the hardest of hard-rocks into the sweetest screwface! Diverse, multifaceted, super collaborative and yet somehow singular, Welcome 2 Detroit was the shy and humble James Yancey revealing his true self in the only way he knew how: through his music.
A1 Welcome 2 Detroit
A2 Y'all Ain't Ready
A3 Think Twice
A4 The Clapper
B1 Come Get It
B2 Pause
B3 B.B.E. (Big Booty Express)
B4 Beej-N-Dem Pt.2
C1 Brazillian Groove (EWF)
C2 It's Like That
C3 Give It Up
C4 Rico Suave Bossa Nova
D1 Featuring Phat Kat
D2 Shake It Down
D3 African Rhythms
D4 One
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