Every single producer has at least one MC and one singer that they favor. It’s kind of like a family thing. Makes sense, since the producer is usually the person to come up and get recognized the quickest. They do the MC friend and the singer friends a favor and give them spots on songs and/or records. This week I bring you the R&B singer that J Dilla brought in to the game. Dwele. Dilla was always surrounded by talent, given, but this is different. Dilla revolutionized the game. There will NEVER be a cover or a remix of something he did, that makes it better. What defines a good artist, any type of musician, is the fact that they are way ahead of their time. Dilla gave this to you with his music, with Dwele, with Slum Village and with a ton of other artist’s I’m not going to mention because they are all on a list for Learn Ya Wednesdays.

Heavy hitting soul sensation

Dwele was raised up in a musical family in the city of Detroit. At the age of 10 his father passed away and his mother told him to save his pain for when he writes music. So he started writing music. Andwele Gardner recorder his first solo, named The Rize, made 100 copies and sold them all, within a week, from the trunk of his car. Slum Village just happened to be one of the consumers of this album. SV took Dwele into the studio to record a song named “Tainted”, for their album Trinity (Past, Present and Future). This is how Dwele got his foot in with J Dilla. YES LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, through Slum Village. For those of you who don’t know, J DILLA was the producer for Slum Village. So, he came out on this AMAZING song, which if anyone knows me, then you know this song, and that kicked off his career. Bahamadia heard this and wanted Dwele to star in a few of her songs.

To end this post, I’ll go ahead and say that those of you who may not be to into Slum Village, or Dilla, or Dwele, have STILL heard him. He was on a Pharoahe Monch song named “Desire”, He was on a VERY FAMOUS Common track named “The People” which was his first single off of Be. He was on “Flashing Lights” which was a huge single for Kanye West. Hard working guy that hasn’t made a very big name for himself, huh? All of these HUGE songs were being recorded while he was working on his solo albums also.

Okay, so now you either are just finding out how amazing this hook perfecting, soul bring, r&b mastering voice is, or you’re actually saying “dude, I’ve totally heard this dude in 76534 different song”. Regardless of what you’ve heard or haven’t heard, give this dude the respect he deserves today. Listen to these songs, buy his albums, illegally pirate them, it doesn’t matter. Just get it. And don’t forget, someone with this much talent, can do amazing things. The next video should prove this to you. I know it’s a bit over done, the whole Michael Jackson tribute and all, but this is talent, man. He shows off his production skills, piano skills, bass skills, singing skills. WOW, just watch and listen.