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TURN IT UP... Another World Premier, Y'all: Ray J Dilla - "Let It Go" (Unreleased Remix)

There are plenty of music collectors that claim to have "All Things Dilla." Maybe that's true, if there is such a thing. With that said, I can honestly say that I'm fortunate enough to be amongst this breed. And it's not because I am the most Internet-savvy or because I belong to some special group of music nerds that have the rarest shit. In fact, I only have possession of this rareness because I happened to be there when it all happened! And for whatever reason, call it divine intuition, I kept every cassette tape I was able to get my hands on. I tried to collect every beat-tape , remix, or freestyle possible. Even when we were just hanging out in Dilla 's basement in Conant Gardens , I'd often bring my hand held recorder and just tape us talking shit about any & everything. Dilla was never the type to hoard music. Very often he'd make mixtapes for us to listen to while we drove around in his sparkling green Beamer . Those leath...