Yancey Boys

J Dilla's younger brother trawls through the late producer's wealth of unused beats and uses them as the foundation for his debut album.

The title of rapper/singer Illa J's debut album refers to the man himself along with his older brother J Dilla, aka Jay Dee, the game-changing hip-hop producer from Detroit who passed away in 2006 at the age of 32.

The final statement of J Dilla, aka Jay Dee, aka James Yancey, created on his death-bed, was 2006’s Donuts, a ghostly and earthly masterwork that spins...