
"That's the tiny bit - literally changed the way musicians all over the world think about musical time and play their instruments.

"Even though I loved Jay Dee, I didn't realize that there was a whole new kind of history taking place in that basement," Charnas tells Axios.It sparked Charnas' immersion into Dilla's techniques and global impact that eventually led to a biography on the Detroit legend.

As a music executive in the late 1990s, Dan Charnas' first visit to J Dilla's basement in Conant Gardens showed him much more than just where the Detroit legend made music.
