![]() So, I wanted to put people on there who are gonna spit y’know, lyrically and represent Detroit,” the late producer previously said. “Peter (Adarkwah, founder of BBE) let me do whatever I wanted to do. The record heard Dilla amplify his own voice and the voices of local rap heroes from across the city, and he fully embraced the creative freedom from the label. Welcome 2 Detroit was released by BBE on Februand marked the beginning of the label’s “Beat Generation” series. ![]() ![]() It’s him! Alive and thriving in every song!” “Because of BBE he was able to pour more of himself into it, into every bit of music on this album. Because I don’t think another label would have helped him embrace his full creativity and given him the control to make it a piece of who he was!” Ma Dukes said in a statement. “I’m real happy that Welcome 2 Detroit was done by BBE. Also joining the box set is a book written by British author and filmmaker John Vanderpuije, which serves as an oral history of the album’s making as told by Amp Fiddler, Ma Dukes and the other key musical contributors. ![]() The record’s 20th anniversary edition arrives with instrumentals, brand new interpretations of “Think Twice” by Azymuth and “Rico Suave Bossa Nova” by Muro, a selection of previously unreleased alternative mixes and studio outtakes that are all pressed over a collection of 12 7” records. ![]()
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