Toney continued a regular fight program over the next 18 months at middleweight, before outgrowing the division, where he made several successful yet disputed defenses. The win also earned Toney the Ring Magazine Fighter Of The Year award. Toney, who entered as a 20-to-1 underdog, was down on all three judges' scorecards, but landed a left hook that put Nunn on the canvas in the eleventh round, and eventually scored a stoppage victory. I’m so honored to be a part of bringing his story to the world through this documentary.”Īlthough the monetary value of his work may not be quantifiable based on dollars and cents, his lasting impact on the music industry and those he worked with carries a far more important weight.Toney won the IBF and lineal middleweight titles by knocking out Michael Nunn in eleven rounds in May 1991. And what he taught us was how to feel rhythm in a way we had ever felt before. “Not just on me, but on an entire generation of musicians that everyone knows and loves. To be able to tell the world about the musician that had the most influence on me is a dream come true,” stated the Roots frontman. “Explaining musical genius is my mission. Oscar-winner Questlove, who is the producer of Dilla Time, a documentary based on the New York Times bestseller Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas, has also expressed his respect and admiration for Dilla in a statement according to The Hollywood Reporter. He’s king of the beats to me,” the producer stated. “Same type of energy, basically.” “That’s my beat brother. Me and him could sit in a room and not even talk and still connect musically. While a guest on Talib Kweli’s The People’s Party podcast, music producer and rapper Madlib shared his connection with the late rapper: “When I met it was like we knew each other for years. Dilla played me the beat he made for it, and I was like ‘Yo, this is incredible.'” It was a sample from a beautiful Bobby Caldwell song called “Open Your Eyes. “The Light.” “Sonically, I give all the respect, honor and credit to J Dilla because he produced the music. Still, his musical legacy stands on its own, and it is obvious the respect and admiration held for him by his contemporaries.Īccording to HipHopDx, Common, who was once roommates with Dilla, spoke of their collaboration on the Grammy-nominated second single from his 2000 album Like Water for Chocolate. His financial status may not have been that of other well-known rappers and producers. However, the Detroit rapper had projects in the works and made a lot of music before his death. One can only surmise what J Dilla’s network was when he died. How much did J Dilla make from his music career? The duo also runs the record label Vintage Vibez Music Group, according to Rolling Stone. His mother, who told the Detroit Free Press that she would work the rest of her life if she had to pay the bills, created the James Dewitt Yancey Foundation (formerly the J Dilla Foundation) with her husband, Toney Smith, to honor her son and also provide music education. The rapper intended to fulfill projects like the one he had lined up with Will Smith to make more money to pay bills and leave money for his daughters Ja’Mya and Ty’Monet. His hospital stays could be around $200,000 each time, dialysis $1,800, his weekly hemoglobin shot $1,800, prescriptions that cost up to $2,000, and costly copays for specialists. The outlet wrote that the producer had insurance through the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists but had to pay some of the bills. Although there are unsubstantiated estimates of what J Dilla’s net worth was -ranging from less than a million to over $11 million, it has been reported by the Detroit Free Press that his hospital bills were quite substantial. She said that his cause of death was cardiac arrest. The New York Times reported at the time of his death that his mother, Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey said that Dilla had lupus and had been recently hospitalized for pneumonia. He had worked with big acts like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Common, and Erykah Badu. The Detroit-raised hip-hop rapper and producer had a short but remarkable music career.
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