A Dilla track might have its own distinct flavour, but the producer's grubby, sample-driven style followed the colourful boom bap forged by East Coast crate-diggers like Pete Rock and A Tribe Called Quest. Nobody manipulated samples quite like Detroit's finest, though: See how his love of James Brown's funky flavours inspired him to cut up the soul singer's horn-heavy orchestration on Slum Village's “I Don't Know”.