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“Dilla Says Go” is built around a few samples. J Dilla primarily lifted the instrumental from The Trammps‘ 1972 track “Rubber Band,” and looped snippets of the vocals to give this song lyrics. The sample repeats that “it’s all right” and “I’ll get over it,” possibly referring to Dilla’s imminent passing—he passed away three days after the album’s release.
Dilla also used samples from prior collaborations—the repeated mantra “go” stems from the intro to B.R. Gunna’s 2004 LP, "Dirty District, Vol. 2", while the intro takes lyrics from Madlib and Dilla’s “No Games.”
Interestingly, the vocal samples are equipped with audio feedback—an error that Dilla actively made. In a 2001 interview with Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide on BBC Radio 1, he spoke on adding errors to his music:
"I used to listen to records and actually, I wouldn’t say look for mistakes, but when I heard mistakes in records it was exciting for me. I try to do that in my music a little bit, try to have that live feel a little bit to it."
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