Donuts Are Forever
Whole body blinging like P3O N**** (c) James “Jay Dee” Yancy
Yo last Saturday evening I attended the www.donutsareforever.com/ and it was as I expected it to be; DOPE. I have been trying to get to this celebration for the past two years, and even though this year I almost didn’t make it because of MAD folks opting out, but I carried on. I met up with http://twitter.com/MPmakesmusic and enjoyed ourselves. I met a few people and it was all love. Drinks and women serving donuts all night, in one word; Vanglorious.
The highlight of the night was most assuredly Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey being there. Seeing Ma Dukes was amazing, it made you feel like this tribute was supposed to happen. The expression of pride, humility and hurt, it was tear jerkingly beautiful. She was there not only for the tribute to her son, but to gain support for thehttp://www.jdillafoundation.org/, this foundation is a must in our inner cities. Music is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
Now lets talk about the music!
My GOD, DJ Brainchild opened up the show/party and he was definitely rocking it. Playing everything Dilla(as expected), from actual Dilla songs, Dilla produced tracks, and actual songs sampled by Dilla. Dancing ensued and the crowd was from all sorts of backgrounds…hip-hop is beautiful like that. Dj Brainchild most definitely got the party started, and QuestLove finished it. QuestLove gets on stage and everybody is like “ohh Shh its Quest”, then the floor gets dumb crowded; and at this point he was just setting up. Finally he gets on and he explains how hard it was to do this tribute and he turned down, so many other asking him to do a tribute. He further goes on to say that him and the roots went into the studio and remade over 70 Dilla tracks, and could have done more(the video below explains). It was magical, I can’t even front I almost passed out. Needless to say, I enjoyed myself and I’m sure everyone else there did. I can’t wait until next years.
P.S. Thank you to www.rareformnyc.com for putting this together and http://www.brooklynbodega.com/ for everything and everyone else involved.
February 16, 2010 at 08:00
Maaannn, how you get Ma Dukes and all I get is Tonya Morgan?!?!