'What we’ve done here is preserve the independence of the storytelling while making sure that the people Dilla loved are connected to the project in a meaningful way,' Charnas said of the project on Twitter, which will be produced in conjunction with Dilla's estate. The film will focus on “the brief life and pervasive and largely uncredited influence of music producer, J Dilla.” Questlove will work with Summer of Soul producer Joseph Patel on the doc, who will produce and co-direct with Darby Wheeler. It's even set to be turned into a film by Dilla's friend and collaborator, Oscar-winner Questlove. The crash happened last weekend near Blackfish Parkway and Lackman Road. It was named one of the New York Times' best book covers of 2022.Īlready, the book which 'chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted childhood in Detroit to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death,' has received much praise since its release in early 2022. Blackfish City is a stylishly written novel with bright, clean, razor-edged prose and a vividly imagined, plausible near-future world. A mysterious woman arrives in the floating Arctic city of Qaanaaq, in a future where rising seas have caused dramatic geopolitical changes. 2 hours ago &0183 &32 A teenager has been charged in connection with a fatal crash in Shawnee, Kan. Dilla, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, just received another big accolade. It’s set in a floating city in the Arctic Circle, which was created in the wake of the climate wars. Acclaimed journalist/professor/music historian Dan Charnas' book about the life and music of renowned producer J. Miller Part dystopian fiction, part magical realism, part political thriller, and part sci-fi, this novel has it all.

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