When Jeff Bubeck buys an old record collection, he has no idea it once belonged to J. Dilla, one of the greatest hip-hop producers of all time. But something else is uncovered. Something huge…
There was probably 6,000 records in there – tons of ’70s jazz. Really a lot of just off-the-wall obscure stuff, you know? And there was a little bit of everything in there, boxes upon boxes stacked up. There was stuff that had gotten wet, you know, stuff that actually had black mold growing on it. I mean, it was just – you know what I mean? It was – it was a mess.And one particular day, I went to the storage bin to pick up some boxes and I noticed a tub in the back of the storage bin. And I open the tub, and it was just full of cassettes. It was just, you know, mix-tapes, homemade tapes, you know? And then there was some junk mail in there. All of the junk mail had the name Yancey on it, Maureen Yancey. And there were some pieces that said James Yancey – didn’t think twice of it. Another few days had passed, and I have no idea why I did it, but I googled James Yancey. The first thing that popped up was the Wikipedia page for J Dilla – producer extraordinaire.
