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.

Announced in Fall 2005, the concept of a “rap album without rappers” struck some as minor novelty, but Donuts would prove to transcend the rigid definitions of what a hip-hop album could be. It plays part like a DJ mix, part like a hip-hop beat maker at work, its songs starting and stopping unexpectedly, like someone turning the dial on an imaginary radio station. But it's an unmistakably modern album, and one which perfectly encapsulated the artist's reputation among his peers and fans as a top-rated architect of soulful hip-hop.

TRACKLIST :

A1. Donuts (Outro)

A2. Workinonit

A3. Waves

A4. Light My Fire

A5. The New

A6. Stop

A7. People

A8. The Diff'rence

B1. Mash

B2. Time: The Donut Of The Heart

B3. Glazed

B4. Airworks

B5. Lightworks.

B6. Stepson Of The Clapper

B7. The Twister (Huh, What)

C1. One Eleven

C2. Two Can Win

C3. Don't Cry

C4. Anti-American Graffiti

C5. Geek Down

C6. Thunder

C7. Gobstopper

D1. One For Ghost

D2. Dilla Says Go

D3. Walkinonit

D4. The Factory

D5. U-Love

D6. Hi.

D7. Bye

D8. Last Donut Of The Night

D9. Welcome To The Show