J Dilla and Nujabes created Lofi Music

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  • Опубликовано: 2 дек 2022
  • Music is quite important, too. Low-fi music was a generic term for songs not meant for radio play -until J Dilla and Nujabes came around and laid the foundation for an entire genre. Watch The Full Story Of The Lofi Girl at ‪@WeAreDraper‬

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  • @JoseRocha4774
    @JoseRocha4774 11 месяцев назад +277

    J dilla and Nujabes were born on the same day. The legacy of both of them will live on for as long as music is still around.

    • @eviltuqueque8800
      @eviltuqueque8800 9 месяцев назад +21

      they were born and died in the same month

    • @qiniso_9ix467
      @qiniso_9ix467 5 месяцев назад +2

      Bro I was about to mention this🙌🏿💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥

    • @Sinner119
      @Sinner119 4 месяца назад

      But a Google search told me one JD died 2006 .... Other one 2010

    • @Sinner119
      @Sinner119 4 месяца назад

      I guess you mean feb lol

    • @Jong-JongDomo
      @Jong-JongDomo 3 месяца назад

      It's like God saying "You two, go to the world and create a new music genre."

  • @RoyaleLevite
    @RoyaleLevite Год назад +423

    Rip Nujabes💜

  • @kay-gi9el
    @kay-gi9el Год назад +116

    It's a shame how less the world knows about nujabes and dilla

    • @dn30001
      @dn30001 3 месяца назад +3

      its a shame how people want to put them BOTH in the same category when they weren't the same

    • @RudyTheInternetGod
      @RudyTheInternetGod 2 месяца назад +2

      J Dilla👑

    • @sirliridon.4419
      @sirliridon.4419 Месяц назад

      Many know about Dilla but not Nujabes tho.

    • @poppatato4183
      @poppatato4183 24 дня назад

      ​@@dn30001wdym?

    • @dn30001
      @dn30001 23 дня назад

      @poppatato4183 the question is why do people want to lump them together (other than same birthdays and same death days)

  • @donarell
    @donarell Год назад +71

    Let’s not rewrite history. Respect to both legends but this has been a thing in hip hop since the early 90’s

    • @Painbodyy
      @Painbodyy Год назад +3

      he’s white

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  Год назад +6

      LOL 😂

    • @dt8384
      @dt8384 Год назад +13

      for real, that's what i'm thinking and my boys wore black fwhen nujabes died

    • @Tman33919
      @Tman33919 11 месяцев назад

      J dilla 1996 ruclips.net/video/iNTrpaZQlo0/видео.html that sounds exactly like lofi

    • @thaevildoer
      @thaevildoer 9 месяцев назад +7

      exactly boom bap sample based hip hop been a thing before dilla and nujabes but they are both legends

  • @musicalexploration3111
    @musicalexploration3111 Год назад +70

    Rip to both legends ❤

  • @donarell
    @donarell Год назад +52

    “Boom bap “ been around fam.

    • @vamoneygroup
      @vamoneygroup 8 месяцев назад +7

      They don't know

    • @joeclarke7982
      @joeclarke7982 6 месяцев назад +7

      Saw someone say lo-fi is just gentrified boom bap lol

    • @donarell
      @donarell 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@joeclarke7982 it is lmfao

    • @vamoneygroup
      @vamoneygroup 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@joeclarke7982 😂😂 nah that's crazy

    • @dn30001
      @dn30001 3 месяца назад +1

      @@vamoneygroup oh they know.... This game have been played long before us with jazz, rock and roll, etc. Now they are using Dilla as the whipping post

  • @AlexanderDivineEmcee
    @AlexanderDivineEmcee 9 месяцев назад +27

    I read Lofi Hip Hop is gentrified Boom Bap and its stuck with me ever since

    • @_Mrozek_
      @_Mrozek_ 6 месяцев назад +9

      LoFi usually is boom bap, but boom bap isn't that frequently LoFi

    • @dn30001
      @dn30001 3 месяца назад

      @@_Mrozek_ and STILL one person orginated it, not two

    • @user-io8sz7tf9t
      @user-io8sz7tf9t Месяц назад +1

      boom bap and lo fi are both pretty reductive terms when u think about it they both are vague, encompass a huge variety of music, and they have some overlap

  • @sph9564
    @sph9564 Год назад +86

    Marcus D’s comments on Nujabes’s legacy stand true. He is remembered as a lofi artist yet ultimately he didn’t make lofi music and categorizing his music as such is a giant slap of disrespect

    • @ytmB4HyU4kUq
      @ytmB4HyU4kUq 8 месяцев назад +6

      Yup, im pretty sure him and those around him remembered him as a "hip hop" artist. It was that "japanese" hip hop if you wanna call it that. So now all of a sudden everyone wanna categorize this stuff into a thing called "lofi" and feel cool saying it. Nujabes was straight up hip hop.

    • @calebscalzo
      @calebscalzo 5 месяцев назад

      Coming from Marcus D who is a great producer in his own right, I’d support this stance 1000%

  • @wolfpack8275
    @wolfpack8275 11 месяцев назад +9

    Dilla been round before 2000 bruh

  • @thebedroomshow9010
    @thebedroomshow9010 10 месяцев назад +22

    Pretty sure Lofi was just a label for the nature of the recordings before we turned it into a genre

    • @JackJacob-pb6kc
      @JackJacob-pb6kc 10 месяцев назад +1

      idiots who don't understand the origin called it lofi. lofi is not a name for a genre.

  • @user-williamdaweeb
    @user-williamdaweeb Год назад +69

    Rest In beats nujebas, love the luv sic series

  • @user-gd1no3gf6d
    @user-gd1no3gf6d Год назад +8

    This has been a thing in boombap (& black metal too) way before them lmao

    • @Tman33919
      @Tman33919 11 месяцев назад +3

      J dilla is the closest thing that sounds like Lofi tho

    • @Tman33919
      @Tman33919 11 месяцев назад

      J dilla 1996 ruclips.net/video/iNTrpaZQlo0/видео.html sounds exactly like lofi

    • @user-gd1no3gf6d
      @user-gd1no3gf6d 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Tman33919 lofi isnt a definite sound. Lofi could be something like early darkthrone or jdilla

    • @Tman33919
      @Tman33919 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@user-gd1no3gf6d yeah but I’m just saying j dilla was making sounds like that since mid 90s and maybe before that

    • @user-gd1no3gf6d
      @user-gd1no3gf6d 11 месяцев назад

      @@Tman33919 and I’m saying black metal was doing that before

  • @HoNeyBr0wn
    @HoNeyBr0wn Год назад +27

    Both are legends!

  • @poolkelso7187
    @poolkelso7187 Год назад +22

    Last thing I need is a yuppie trying to explain lo fi hip hop beats.

    • @PiniToday
      @PiniToday 9 месяцев назад +7

      I got nothing against yuppies, but this guy really don’t understand what Dilla and Nujabes were doing.

    • @AlexanderDivineEmcee
      @AlexanderDivineEmcee 9 месяцев назад

      😂

    • @slavadabadoo
      @slavadabadoo 6 месяцев назад

      Lol well said

  • @DisingenuousComment
    @DisingenuousComment Год назад +10

    Rip Seba Jun. Your music shaped my life in many ways.

  • @binarievision797
    @binarievision797 7 месяцев назад +6

    Stop comparing both of them lol. Dilla’s 1994-1997 beats sounded like lofi. Dilla was on some pimp shit and not making beats in a rainforest.

    • @slavadabadoo
      @slavadabadoo 6 месяцев назад

      Hahaha love it

    • @zombieboy937
      @zombieboy937 Месяц назад

      Dilla sounded like hip hop in the 90s not lofi.

  • @sophiasilva3622
    @sophiasilva3622 11 месяцев назад +3

    J Dilla and Nujabes were born at the same day tho, legends ❤

    • @ArturoGarzaID
      @ArturoGarzaID 10 месяцев назад +1

      They also died in the same month they were born.

  • @N2Deep00
    @N2Deep00 4 месяца назад +1

    Shame we couldn't get an album collab with Nujabes, J Dilla, and MF Doom

  • @MujjOMusic
    @MujjOMusic Год назад +4

    💯 facts, respect from another lofi artist from indian

  • @TheBLACKSTARmovement
    @TheBLACKSTARmovement Месяц назад

    Madlib been doing lo-fi style since 1998. Madvillainy is what really got it going

  • @ArminFarzaneh
    @ArminFarzaneh 5 месяцев назад

    Rest in beats Nujabes. Even though I wasn't a fan of his until after he died his music will always be the first I'll go to if I need to feel comfort or happiness.

  • @bvicc20
    @bvicc20 Год назад +1

    R.I.P DILLA!!

  • @tabplayy
    @tabplayy 2 месяца назад

    Heavenly Lords 💖 continues blessing all of #j.#dilla's & the late #Nujabes (#rip #sire #seba #jun ) 's loved ones. Keep blessing it & keep forth on blessing them ° namaste🕉️🎼

  • @jacksondicerbo7855
    @jacksondicerbo7855 2 месяца назад

    I was born on Feb 7 too. RIP Nujabes and J Dilla🕊️

  • @meseltunes
    @meseltunes 8 месяцев назад

    I am so blessed I discovered Nujabes music . R.I.P King

  • @bplayerr1
    @bplayerr1 8 месяцев назад +2

    She talked and talked withour saying anything of substance 🤷‍♂️

  • @user-zl6ck9wf7b
    @user-zl6ck9wf7b Год назад +15

    You must never have heard of DJ Krush (Japan) and DJ Shadow. (USA) 1990's. Also, Portishead's DJ.
    These were the ones who made hip hop differently...filtered...tweaked and used unorthodox effects and samples on hip hop beats. They used slower bpms and also faster bpms than usually hip hop of the time.
    Record labels labeled it trip hop and a new genre was formed with various other artists influenced by their style.
    Props to JD and Nujabes but I promise you if they are alive today... They would give homage to Shadow and Krush. 1,000,000 percent 💪

    • @felixjconvery
      @felixjconvery 7 месяцев назад

      Commented somewhere else but nujabes also owes a huge amount to DJ deckstream

    • @YukonJack
      @YukonJack 7 месяцев назад

      I listen to all of them. Honestly, I've *never* come across someone who initiates a name drop of Krush. I used to have a 3-4 hour radio spot at WVFS Tallahassee, Florida State University's student-run radio station. That's where I learned about Krush, Nujabes, and Shadow. When I first heard Building Steam With a Grain of Salt it was one of those moments like - fuck, I will never forget this moment and how have I been alive for 25 years and this is the first time I've ever come across this dude. Nujabes and Krush were different, mad impressed by both but they all had their own voice and flavor. The game changers always leave too early. I literally cried when MF DOOM'S death hit the internet on New Years Eve. For weeks and weeks I would get emotional and have some tears run. It literally felt like I lost a family member. DOOM wasn't "old" and he had been in the game for so long. I thought he would be around for a long time, that my kid would listen to his music with me one day. Then he was just gone. When people say "Ayo Biggie or Pac?" it's like, shit, if that's your "rap burning question" than you can go ask someone else. Learn about Big L and then come ask me that dumb ass question again. Music helps sculpt the people we become, for better or for worse.

  • @AndrewLonergan-sp1ec
    @AndrewLonergan-sp1ec Год назад +11

    Neither are lo-fi, just because you watched the anime girl channel doesn't make it lo-fi.

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  Год назад +6

      Interesting take. What genre of music do you think they made?

    • @TylerWilliams-my6ru
      @TylerWilliams-my6ru Год назад

      ​@@WeAreDraperhonestly they had their own style, but I would say they are still closer to boom bap than Lofi. I do think though, their beats have stuff in common with modern lofi beats. They represent and are responsible for a transition into lofi, even though I wouldn't classify them as lofi.

    • @TylerWilliams-my6ru
      @TylerWilliams-my6ru Год назад

      ​@@WeAreDraperthey are very interesting producers because along with madlib, I think you really can't confine them to one predetermined subgenre. That's a compliment to me because it lends credibility to how forward thinking and creative they were.

    • @Tman33919
      @Tman33919 11 месяцев назад

      J dilla 1996 ruclips.net/video/iNTrpaZQlo0/видео.html sounds exactly like Lofi

    • @AndrewLonergan-sp1ec
      @AndrewLonergan-sp1ec 11 месяцев назад +1

      hip-hop, you knob@@WeAreDraper

  • @SlickA10Homepage
    @SlickA10Homepage 5 месяцев назад

    Nujabes nujabes nujabes!

  • @Christian-wd3eh
    @Christian-wd3eh 9 месяцев назад +3

    TRYING TO REWRITE OUR HISTORY AND CULTURE IS DISRESPECTFUL

  • @Beatz_by_Tp_the_don
    @Beatz_by_Tp_the_don 11 месяцев назад

    there lives were parallely connected some how
    😮

  • @user-ec1oq8hv4m
    @user-ec1oq8hv4m 5 месяцев назад

    Shallow dynasty is how I learned lo-fi music

  • @samuraireflection
    @samuraireflection 9 месяцев назад +1

    guru jazzmatazz was too, but hes niche, hes the other one, hes good.

  • @humorrhoidsx2378
    @humorrhoidsx2378 5 месяцев назад

    Rest in beats Nujabes and J Dilla!!!! ⚡️🙌

  • @theguywholivesnextdoor
    @theguywholivesnextdoor 4 месяца назад

    i miss nujabes

  • @BakerClassics
    @BakerClassics 15 дней назад

    Whats an example of 1950s lofi?

  • @mixindabox
    @mixindabox Год назад +3

    oomff.. Lofiwax

  • @kriyapada
    @kriyapada 11 месяцев назад

    Yes! Rip J Dilla 🍩 & Nujabes ⚔️

  • @tritonecrisantemo649
    @tritonecrisantemo649 5 месяцев назад

    Killer outfit bro.

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you sir 🙏🏻

  • @user-V711
    @user-V711 6 месяцев назад

    luvsic series, samurai champloo osts and dont cry jdilla

  • @nathanieltyghe4526
    @nathanieltyghe4526 Год назад +3

    They didn't make lofi they made high fi!

    • @nathanieltyghe4526
      @nathanieltyghe4526 5 месяцев назад

      @jacekmakes I said they didn't make lowfi music they made hi-fi reread what I said

    • @nathanieltyghe4526
      @nathanieltyghe4526 5 месяцев назад

      @jacekmakes this youtube video is trying to claim that J Dilla and Nujabes created low-fi hiphop which they did not they created hiphop! Hence I said hi-f meaning high quality

  • @bloodlish
    @bloodlish 10 месяцев назад

    rip nujabes and j dilla

  • @wrldonwill
    @wrldonwill День назад

    Where does Madlib fit in here?

  • @ArturoGarzaID
    @ArturoGarzaID 10 месяцев назад +1

    Nujabes style I would associate more with the Lo-Fi sound, but even his music wasn’t really Lo-Fi.

  • @mellowillow
    @mellowillow 11 месяцев назад

    ❤️‍🔥

  • @IncredibleMD
    @IncredibleMD 7 месяцев назад

    So that's why most lo-fi music today sounds like music Nujabes would've written if Nujabes wasn't good at writing music.

  • @TheForeignNationalBornNatural
    @TheForeignNationalBornNatural 9 месяцев назад +1

    Jay dilla started lofi. Nujabes was heavily inspired by Jay dilla

    • @d1sk-cord531
      @d1sk-cord531 6 месяцев назад +1

      J Dilla was a Hip-Hop DJ/Producer, so was Nujabes

    • @EbsSeven
      @EbsSeven 3 месяца назад

      @@d1sk-cord531 But, only one is credited for being the "godfather" of lofi.

    • @d1sk-cord531
      @d1sk-cord531 3 месяца назад

      @EbsSeven 'lo-fi Hip-Hop' Lo-Fi isn't a genre, and even so Nujabes wasn't known as a Lo-Fi anything while he was alive, he was always known as a Hip-Hop Producer

  • @Sam-bh5vm
    @Sam-bh5vm 6 месяцев назад +1

    It's hip hop. Lo-fi isn't a genre. It's a style.

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  6 месяцев назад +1

      What’s the difference between a genre and a style?

    • @abasement666
      @abasement666 6 месяцев назад +3

      ​​@@WeAreDraperhip-hop is the genre and lofi is the style. The adjective of a genre isnt wholly a genre in itself without the base genre. Its piano based boombap most of the time. (Which people have been doing before and during the beginnings of these two's careers, by the way.)
      To get more nit-picky literally any string of words can classify as a genre so youd be technically right in saying anything is a genre. Like "lofi doorjam soul" is a genre *with an adjective at the begining to specify the STYLE within the genre.*
      "Happy funk" is a genre. Is "happy" alone a genre? or is it a style of music?
      Early daniel johnston and early dilla are both "lofi" in sound but genre-wise are complete opposites. Its a descriptor of a style within the base genre.

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  6 месяцев назад

      Sooooooo… it’s a genre.

    • @abasement666
      @abasement666 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@WeAreDraper it's a style of any kind of music that has been bastardized into being called a "genre" by people who crammed a general adjective for a recording style into a hip-hop shaped box. What did I say that still drew you to the conclusion that it's a genre? Im interested to talk about it but If this is just to get me and others to comment more to boost the algorithm, you win I guess lol.

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  6 месяцев назад

      No I'm not trying to be dull, I just don't get the point.
      Your comments states: "To get more nit-picky literally any string of words can classify as a genre so youd be technically right in saying anything is a genre." So it's just a matter of what you feel like is "worthy" of being classified as its own genre.
      I understand it would be bizarre to define "happy funk" as a standalone genre and not a specific "flavor" of funk, but lofi has clearly grown into its own sound. There's artists and producers that would describe their music as simply "lofi music" because in the last 10 years it's become its own thing. Yes, it is mostly piano based boombap, but when it isn't people would still cal it lofi. I just don't feel like there's a specific need to be nit-picky about terms when the main point is essentially unaffected.

  • @StephenOConnell-tz5zw
    @StephenOConnell-tz5zw 2 месяца назад

    The Pharcyde predates both producers and they were pretty goddamn lofi. especially passin me by....and countless other artists between 90-93. this isnt that hard to learn about.

  • @niQmusiQ
    @niQmusiQ 9 месяцев назад

    Who’s Dimitri?🤨 Yoshifumi Kondo is the director of Whisper of the Heart

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  9 месяцев назад

      Dimitri is the founder of the lofi girl channel. That’s what the original video is about!

  • @noahchase5985
    @noahchase5985 4 месяца назад

    Punk and Dub music was low fidelity since the 70's.

  • @noaharkadedelgado
    @noaharkadedelgado 8 месяцев назад +3

    J Dilla is not Lo-Fi!

    • @d1sk-cord531
      @d1sk-cord531 6 месяцев назад

      Lol these weebs are delusional

  • @TARRS1
    @TARRS1 7 месяцев назад

    J Dilla nor Nujabes started lo fi, partook in it, made a claim for it, etc. 🤦‍♂️ If anything, Fly lo's early stuff is more closely aligned to the early workings of lo fi music, alongside the early 2000s Los Angeles scene.

  • @hlemonslices
    @hlemonslices 22 дня назад

    8:06

  • @forgottenmedia5172
    @forgottenmedia5172 11 месяцев назад +2

    This is not true bro

  • @Tweak203
    @Tweak203 Год назад

    Slum Village 💯

  • @dontayjohnson4361
    @dontayjohnson4361 10 месяцев назад

    Why we keep forgetting fatjon tho he was in the samurai champloo ost

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  10 месяцев назад

      No worries, we didn’t- you should check out the entire video😉

    • @dontayjohnson4361
      @dontayjohnson4361 10 месяцев назад

      @@WeAreDraper thank u I thought I was the only one bro 🤧 I thought I was alone

  • @slavadabadoo
    @slavadabadoo 6 месяцев назад

    In what way did Dilla influence animation getting into music? Like name 3 examples...
    😑

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  6 месяцев назад

      Watch the full video and you might find out🙄

  • @TheForeignNationalBornNatural
    @TheForeignNationalBornNatural 9 месяцев назад +3

    Completely false.

  • @1171dominoV2
    @1171dominoV2 Год назад

    Are you guys high

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  Год назад

      Very much so.

    • @Tman33919
      @Tman33919 11 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/iNTrpaZQlo0/видео.html

  • @kestermyronsoldmcmanager1273
    @kestermyronsoldmcmanager1273 16 дней назад

    Lofi is nujabes creation. Not dillas.

  • @asmrsnotdeadyet
    @asmrsnotdeadyet 7 месяцев назад +1

    You slaughtered Nujabes's name. Shame on you.

  • @Wake-up90
    @Wake-up90 9 месяцев назад

    Nujabes K

  • @ardobrunch4267
    @ardobrunch4267 5 месяцев назад

    U have to thrown fat Jon in there too

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  5 месяцев назад +1

      We did, in the full video! 😉

  • @JackJacob-pb6kc
    @JackJacob-pb6kc 10 месяцев назад +2

    lofi is not a genre

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  10 месяцев назад +1

      I’d say it is now, people definitely categorize a very specific sound with that label

    • @perfectplates
      @perfectplates 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@WeAreDraper In life, when one person calls you an idiot, most likely, they’re the idiot but when a handful of people call you an idiot, perhaps it’s time to do some self reflection. According to Oxford dictionary, Lofi music is “unpolished, amateurish, or technologically unsophisticated, esp. as a deliberate aesthetic choice”
      Dilla and Nujabes were certainly none of the above…

    • @WeAreDraper
      @WeAreDraper  9 месяцев назад

      @@perfectplates What a sophisticated argument sir! I do admit it was a very huge oversight by our writer not to consult the dictionary when making this video! However, rest assured we have informed them of this grave mistake. Good thing music genres are strictly defined by the Oxford dictionary and we don’t need things like culture, context, critics and independently-made content to further expand their definitions and blur their borders! Also- thank god words and naming conventions are inextricably bound exclusively to their original meaning and context and can’t, under any circumstances, be remixed or used retroactively to refer to things that were once known by different names! I mean what a crazy, nuanced and messy world that would be! Dictionaries are a life saver.

  • @peglord
    @peglord 8 месяцев назад

    nujabes didnt make lofi he made jazz

  • @DaveDEF82
    @DaveDEF82 5 месяцев назад +3

    The most made up BS I have ever heard...

  • @Delsoonbye02
    @Delsoonbye02 Месяц назад

    Its not lofi ffs lmao
    J dilla and nujabes are boom bap artists

  • @kittyn5222
    @kittyn5222 Год назад

    Nujabes is also the creator of aruarian dance
    The one about having no enemies

  • @Christian-wd3eh
    @Christian-wd3eh 9 месяцев назад

    J dilla precedes nujabes. J DILLA created lofi. A Japanese man copied and took credit

    • @abasement666
      @abasement666 6 месяцев назад

      Weeabos exploded his career lol also dilla was making beautiful technical chops while nujabes would run an 8 bar loop over a 2 bar drum loop.. in high quality.

  • @tirafan3
    @tirafan3 10 месяцев назад

    lofi music is the death of music... please don't tarnish their legacies with that soulless garbage

  • @felixjconvery
    @felixjconvery 7 месяцев назад

    Not too many comments here yet so gonna use this as a little PSA to go listen to nujabes early collaborator DJ DECKSTREAM. hugely underrated and helped nujabes found his label hydeout productions.

  • @joelcowan2568
    @joelcowan2568 10 месяцев назад +3

    Nujabes is not lofi lol its hip hop

  • @alteredstate4320
    @alteredstate4320 7 месяцев назад

    Black metal was lo fi by essence.. way before hip hop

    • @a_donut4823
      @a_donut4823 6 месяцев назад

      Black metal has nothing to do with lo-fi, tf you smoking???