• Square brown cardboard box with red heart design and text 'jay' and 'Japan' on a gray background

J Dilla

Jay Love Japan

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  • NM-
YEAr
  • 2016
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US
extras
  • Reissue
IF YOU LIKE
  • Hip Hop
  • Instrumental
  • Boom Bap
  • Jazzy Hip-Hop
  • Detroit

Besides being a posthumous release, the Jay Love Japan EP was a much delayed release by the time it landed in 2008, having been originally announced in 2005. As the logistics were worked out with J Dilla's estate, numerous bootlegs, test pressings, and promos appeared.

Ten tracks, mostly instrumental, fly by in just over 20 minutes with only the two vocal cuts - "Say It" with Ta'Raach and "First Time" with Slum Village member Baatin - sounding truly finished. The good news is that fanatics finally get decent packaging around these cuts.