Label: Stones Throw

Reissued 12/12/2025, Originally released 2006

We're celebrating 20 years of J Dilla's Donuts with a brand new Anniversary Audiophile Edition. The Donuts Audiophile Edition is lacquer cut at Bernie Grundman and manufactured at Fidelity Record Pressing - 2LP 180g vinyl at 45rpm. Deluxe art printed Stoughton jacket. When J Dilla, aka Detroit’s James Yancey, made Donuts, he was 31 years old and widely celebrated as a producer of rare talent, having worked with Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, and De La Soul, among many others. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of obscure jazz, funk, and soul, and, as a talented drummer in his own right, he brought a rare sense of groove to the samples he chopped up on his trusty Akai MPC. Donuts began simply enough - an idea to turn a good demo tape into a full-length album. It would end up being one of the defining works of Dilla's life. Completed during the year Dilla spent in and out of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and released on his birthday, February 7, 2006, Donuts gained particular poignancy when he died three days later on February 10th.

Track listing:

1. Donuts (Outro)
   
2. Workinonit
   
3. Waves
   
4. Light My Fire
   
5. The New
   
6. Stop
   
7. People
   
8. The Diff'rence
   
9. Mash
   
10. Time: The Donut Of The Heart
    
11. Glazed
    
12. Airworks
    
13. Lightworks
    
14. Stepson Of The Clapper
    
15. The Twister (Huh, What)
    
16. One Eleven
    
17. Two Can Win
    
18. Don't Cry
    
19. Anti-American Graffiti
    
20. Geek Down
    
21. Thunder
    
22. Gobstopper
    
23. One For Ghost
    
24. Dilla Says Go
    
25. Walkinonit
    
26. The Factory
    
27. U-Love
    
28. Hi.
    
29. Bye.
    
30. Last Donut Of The Night
    
31. Donuts (Intro)