News: The Status Of J-Dilla's Estate and His New Foundation

According to his new official website, J-Dilla.com, the late and very great Detroit production wizard we all knew as Dilla, Jay Dee or James Yancey will now have a new and very admirable non-profit foundation in his name and the administration of his estate has been appointed to West Coast probate attorney Alex Borden, who took over for former estate executor Arthur Erk in April.

The J Dilla Foundation is a new charitable institution set up in Dilla's name that's been established to provide scholarships at the beginning of each Fall semester to inner city youth and fund the development of music curricula in those same schools.

As for Borden he is currently working hard to develop new opportunities for Dilla's vast catalog of music and made it known that "the estate will also manage contracts, copyrights, and other matters relating to the Yancey name and/or Pay Jay Productions, Inc., and welcomes ideas, requests, and licensing opportunities for evaluation and review with the family."

-BIG D O