Genre: Instrumental Hip-Hop
Label: Mummy Records; Stones Throw Records
Release Date: March 20, 2007 (The original album was released in 2003)
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| A1 | Let's Take It Back | |
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| A2 | Reckless Driving | |
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| A3 | Nothin Like This | |
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| A4 | The $ | |
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| A5 | Make'em NV | |
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| B1 | Crushin' | |
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| B2 | Intro (Alt.) | |
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| B3 | Wild | |
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| B4 | Take Notice | |
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| B5 | Shouts (Alt.) |
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"Ruff Draft is an album by the late former Slum Village member Jay Dee (also known as J Dilla).
It was originally released in February 2003 as an EP, by his then-newly
founded label, Mummy Records, and distributed by Groove Attack, a
German record label. In 2007, Ruff Draft was remastered and re-released as the third official solo album by Stones Throw Records. The re-release sold 8,049 copies in its first week, J Dilla's largest first-week sales as a solo artist.
The original vinyl release of Ruff Draft is now out-of-print.
Although the album is one of Jay Dee's lesser known works, it includes
some of his most abstract and experimental work, all self-produced, and
recorded in under a week. As stated in the introduction of the album, it's a noncommercial
sounding lo-fi hip hop album, which sees the producer playfully toying
with different styles, such as on "Nothing Like This," where his vocals
are distorted and skewered over an equally eccentric production
featuring a sample played backwards. The result mirrors the more
off-center moments on Common's Electric Circus, which Dilla also worked on. Stones Throw Records
re-issued the album on CD and vinyl on March 20, 2007. The re-release
is remastered from the original master tapes, with sound engineers
taking steps to maintain the original release's integrity, along with
additional songs, as well as an instrumental CD."
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