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J Dilla - Donuts (New Vinyl 2LP Sealed!) "Smile" Cover
Sold Date:
March 14, 2022
Start Date:
October 14, 2021
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J Dilla - Donuts (New Vinyl 2LP Sealed!) Smile Cover
Donuts began simply enough as an idea to turn a particularly good demo beat tape into a full-length release, and has since became a classic hip-hop album, one of the defining works of the artist’s life.
Completed during a year in which J Dilla spent mostly in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Donuts would gain particular poignancy when, only three days after it’s release, February 10, 2006, the artist passed away, losing his battle with a rare blood disease.
Back late 2005 when Stones Throw was getting ready to release J Dilla’s Donuts, they made a casual decision to use a drawing for the cover of the 2LP vinyl release, rather than the standard cover photo of Dilla used for the other releases.
But now here it is, better late than never: J Dilla’s classic album Donuts now released on vinyl with the smile on the cover.
Cover & illustrations by Jeff Jank; photo of Dilla by Andrew Gura. Just a few months ago Stones Throw published a short back-story on the cover photo.
Brand New Vinyl 2LP Sealed!
Packed well and ships safe!
