Yeah E, Dilla is my favorite producer. The album Donuts was made with an MPC on the hospital bed. One of the best instrumental hip-hop albums (the best imo) of all time. You can just hear him putting his life into the album.. lots of emotion in it. He was struggling with Lupus since 03 or 04 and passed Feb 10 (today) in 2006.

here's some more info:
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Donuts is an instrumental hip hop album by producer J Dilla. Donuts was released on February 7, 2006, his 32nd birthday, and only three days before his death. This album was a major breakthrough for this underground artist, in which his unique style could be shown and many see as having subtle meanings in many of its tracks and their names (for example, the titling of "Don't Cry" and "Bye" in light of Dilla's passing afterwards). On Metacritic, Donuts received "universal acclaim" from critics based on an aggregate score of 84/100 from fifteen reviews.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donuts_(album)