A few days ago, The Red Bull Music Academy (these guys just “get it”, big up everyone from the recent RBMA ATL trip) & Subsoniq (XM Radio) threw “Dilla Day”, one of the coolest Dilla tribute concepts I’ve seen yet, at the XM Performance Theatre in D.C. featuring a live band (The Players & Friends) performing classic Dilla tracks and special guests Pete Rock, Maureen Yancey (Dilla’s mom aka Ma Dukes) & Talib Kweli talkin about their Dilla experiences & memories in a Red Bull Music Academy-esque panel. Proghiphop.com has audio & some pics of the event (man, I would have LOVED to go to this) up for download here for those of us outside of DC and I imagine that video will probably end up in the RBMA’s GIGANTIC archive. Big up every involved in making this happen, hip hop needs more events like this.

Pete Rock, Maureen Yancey & Kweli photo by Mike Nova from ProgHipHop.com