I was a devotee ever since. But I wasn't. I was 12/13 and getting into music and while I enjoyed it, I wasn't in any kind of space to really appreciate his work until college. I don't think I realized just how many things he had touched that I listened to until then (also, by then the internet was a thing for me and I had a better understanding of what a producer actually does.)

There are other producers who will have more said about them when they pass away. But I still don't know if we'll ever see the outpouring from *musicians* that we got when Dilla went. MAYBE someone like Primo might command that level of sheer adoration among his peers, I can't think of anyone else who could come close.