A Dilla track might have its own distinct flavor, but the producer's grubby, sample-driven style followed the colorful 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 flavors inspired him to cut up the soul singer's horn-heavy orchestration on Slum Village's “I Don't Know.”