>I don't mean to say that Dilla was the engine that drove The
>Roots' success or that ?uest isn't a brilliant producer and
>musical mind in his own right.
>
>Dilla and ?uest obviously worked well together. Their best
>moments, to me, came when they were working together on the
>same projects - Things Fall Apart, Like Water for Chocolate,
>Voodoo, Electic Circus - and it seemed that ?uest really
>looked up to Dilla as someone to emulate and to push his own
>craft and creative process.
>
>I'm not a creative type, but finding someone who you both can
>work alongside yet have a mutual admiration so that you can
>push each other forward in whatever line of work is a rare
>thing and it almost would have been odd if ?uest were able to
>replicate that same dynamic with someone else.
>

Word.

In fact, I'm pretty sure quest himself has said
TFA was a response to Fantastic and
Phren was a result if Dilla pushing him left
(Electric Circus etc)

Kind of crazy how folks are dismissing your
point outright and in the process downplaying
The whole Soulquarians era.

But, I just don't think you're going to get a lot
of open minded discussion on this one.