J Dilla

An all-star salute to hip-hop's fallen soldiers.

2016 was lit. With a half-decade of retrospection, XXL highlights 104 hip-hop albums turning five in 2021.

New heat.

That new-new.

Their music lives on.

XXL ranks the best posthumous hip-hop albums of all time.

Flow like water.

Crème de la crème, homie.

A list that matters.

Long Live J Dilla.

Though mixtapes reigned supreme in 2009, these LPs delivered just as much.

J Dilla's team has released a new instrumental project from the late producer.