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Back in January, J Dilla’s record collection was put up for auction on Ebay by his mother, Maureen

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Back in January, J Dilla’s record collection was put up for auction on Ebay by his mother, Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey after the vinyl collection was rescued from a flooded Detroit basement. With that said, there’s still a story yet to be told about the vinyls and the other contents that were discovered when family members had to relocate Dilla’s possessions from the basement to a storage locker. NPR, investigated the story and put together this documentary about the undiscovered vault of J Dilla. Listen/download the whole documentary below.

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