"If you were to secretly ask the most praised hip-hop producers, if given a top three, who they fear the most, Dilla’s…"

"All the greats respected him the most. ... Common actually stayed with him in his last days -- they both stayed in L.…"

"I can't begin to explain the influence his mind and ear has had on my band, myself, and the careers of so many other …"

"When I found out Dilla passed, I was in Australia. I did not want to do the show anymore, my mind was heavy. Dilla ex…"

"Q-Tip comes in the room and says, "I want you to hear something". I'm hella excited 'cause either it's a new Tribe so…"

"I knew him for a good three or four years before I knew he was sick! I was blown back by that, man. I never knew he w…"

"Dilla was a good cat. He looked out for me, showing me how to work the SP1200, the (MPC) 3000, he used to set me up i…"

"One time we were in the studio and didn't have a drum machine, and he went inside the booth and played the drums on h…"

""That’s how me and Dilla always worked, we had a crazy chemistry. We would just sit there cracking jokes, you know, s…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"