A Tribute to Detroit's J Dilla

Mos Def Big Band

Monday, January 21, 7:30 pm
Hill Auditorium

UMS and the U-M office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives will co-present this Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day concert featuring Mos Def in a tribute to Detroit's most influential and respected producer, J Dilla, who died in February, 2006 at age 32 from complications from lupus. Through poetry and hip-hop, his infectious rhymes — infused with an acute social consciousness — reclaimed hip-hop's revolutionary soul, critiquing the violence and deceit found in "gangsta" rap and examining head-on the issues of the Black experience in the U.S. This concert tribute will be presented only in Ann Arbor.

• Mos Def's Website
• Mos Def on MySpace
• NPR's "Remembrances" Story on J Dilla's passing (Feb 2006)

Co-Presented by the University Musical Society and the U-M Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives as part of the University's 2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Symposium.