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Dan Charnas is the author of the definitive history of the hip-hop business,The Big Payback. He’s also the author of Work Clean, a book detailing applying chefs’ techniques to almost any life situation. He was also the co-creator and executive producer of the VH1 movie and TV series, The Breaks. He lives in Manhattan, and is an associate professor at NYU/Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
'Does what good music books should: send you back to the source material ... Dilla Time is an important piece of music writing, affording its African-American subject the respect that the rock establishment has long accorded its white heroes' - The Economist 'A portrait of a complex genius taken too young, as well as a glorious study of the music and culture he created' - Spin 'Incisive and sometimes brilliant biography' - Mosi Reeves, The Wire 'J Dilla turned what one generation deemed musical error into what the next knew to be musical innovation. In this splendid book, Dan Charnas offers an uncanny mix of research and vision, documentation and interpretation, plenitude and momentum. Dilla Time is definitive. And exhilarating' - Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland 'The greatest hip-hop producer of all time is getting the love and care his legacy deserves. Dilla Time is a master class' - Dream Hampton
