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Here’s the deal. I’ve been working hard trying to find the time to brush up on my Illustrator and Photoshop skills and put together a dope Dilla Fans logo to represent the community across social platforms and for offline merchandise.

Then yesterday, I remembered about all those crazy talented people out there who love Dilla and who entered the Dilla art contest a couple of years back. So, I’ve decided to step aside and put this in the talented hands of the Dilla fan community. This competition will allow for YOU to choose what you feel represents Dilla fans and that YOU would love to see on merchandise and across social platforms.

What The Winner Gets…

1: Their logo used to represent the J Dilla Fan groups across all online and offline media.

2: Their logo used on any future offline merchandise (tees etc) with ALL proceeds going to the J Dilla Foundation.

3: TBC – Dilla goods!

How It’s Going Down…

1: All initial entries have to be submitted to info@jdilla.co.uk by 1.00pm EST on 11th April 2013.

2: 5 entries will be shortlisted, and will be added here on jdilla.co.uk for voting to open at 1.00pm EST on 15th April 2013.

3: Voting will take place via Twitter, from embedded Tweets featured on jdilla.co.uk representing each of the shortlisted entries. The highest number of Retweets wins!

4: Voting will close at 1.00pm EST on 22nd April 2013 and the winner will be announced shortly thereafter.

Full list of T&Cs will be added to the site shortly, for now, let us know if you’re interested and if you’re not entering but still want to input, let the designers know what you want to see by leaving a comment below!

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We’ve got all the other social networks locked, so last night I thought it would be cool to cater to those who are feeling the new Google+ community feature.

So having said that, LET’S GROW. It’s invite only as we want to keep the spam to a minimum but we want to see you ALL over there if you’ve got a Google+ account.

Come help shape the new extended family!

Click here to request to request an invite to join the J Dilla Fans Google+ community.

Click here to show love to the Google+ J Dilla Fan page.

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This got shared over on the NEW J DILLA FANS GOOGLE+ COMMUNITY last night. If you’ve got a Google account, come on over and request an invite!

The pictures and Tweets were shared by Dilla head Matthew Stanford (who designed the tees), so love to him for this and for donating profits from the tees to Ma Dukes. I honestly can’t remember ever reading that Flea was a Dilla fan, so it was pretty cool seeing him rock the Dilla Dawg tee and pulling up these old Tweets that he posted.

I love j dilla

— Flea (@flea333) February 6, 2012

i am connecting with the music of j dilla in a deeply emotional way profoundly moving. opening new worlds. like when i heard jimi h as a kid

— Flea (@flea333) April 30, 2011

Got any other unusual Dilla fan photos? Let us know and we’ll share across the community.

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Press Release

First offering from Jay Dee aka J Dilla’s ‘Lost Scrolls’

Delicious Vinyl is proud to announce the release of “The Throwaway” — the new single by Yancey Boys featuring Frank Nitt, produced by the late great J Dilla.

A digital-only release, “The Throwaway” is the initial offering from from what J Dilla Music Catalogue Curator Frank Nitt has dubbed ‘The Lost Scrolls’ — previously unreleased productions from the considerable body of work Dilla left behind. This particular premium production has been laced with new verses and hooks from Illa J (Dilla’s younger brother) and Frank Nitt (Frank & Dank).

Dilla heads, fear no retreads. “The Throwaway” is a keeper. A heady grid of battle drums and keyboards cascade as Illa J steps up: “I’m so sick with the flow the doctor said I had the flu/ they saw my eye of the tiger and sent me to the zoo….”

“When Illa J played me what he’d done with Dilla’s track, I thought it was incredible,” says Frank Nitt. “I was suggesting other MC’s who could jump on the track, but Illa told me he wanted me to rhyme on it, so who was I to disagree?” Indeed, Frank’s verse is well worth it: “I am the beacon for which you came forth/ I light up the path / I am the damn torch/ so you can do it right or get burned…”

“Fact is, a lot of beats Dilla made were on tapes or discs that weren’t always labeled with the date,” explains Frank Nitt. “But I believe the beat for ‘The Throwaway’ dates from the mid-’90s, just from the tempo and where Dilla was at creatively. To me it feels like the heat he was giving the Pharcyde at that time.”

As Dilla’s disciples are well aware, Delicious Vinyl has significant history with the producer. In the mid-’90s, Dilla (then known as Jay Dee) placed his first beats on an official release on The Pharcyde album Labcabincalifornia (including the hit single “Runnin’”) and remixes for Brand New Heavies. In 2009, Dilla’s younger brother John “Illa J” Yancey laced a cache of previously unreleased Jay Dee beats to create the critically and popularly acclaimed Delicious Vinyl album Yancey Boys.

Now here comes “The Throwaway” — throwback fast rap, right on time.