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Title: J Dilla – Donuts
Year/Genre/City: 2006, Hip-Hop (Instrumental), Detroit, MI
Matrix #: STH2126
Condition: VG VG+ (sounds great)

Cultural Facts:

[Hospital Sessions]: [Hospital Sessions] The album is often described as being assembled while Dilla was seriously ill and in and out of the hospital, working whenever his body allowed and treating beatmaking like a daily lifeline.

[Gift Ritual]: [Birthday Release] It was released on his 32nd birthday (February 7, 2006), a detail that’s become part of the record’s emotional framing because he died days later.

[Friend Finish]: [Aftercare] Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf and close collaborators handled the final push to get it out, making the release feel like community follow-through rather than a standard label rollout.

2/17/26 TC