J-Dilla wasn't on the level of an emcee but he had essence to his rhymes just on flow & voice, he knew how to spit even if it was simple subjects of girls, money, jewelery, & cars, he knew how to deliver it correctly to the point you was feeling what he had to say.

What I liked about him was also that he could spit over anybody else's beat not just his own the same way he would over his own and own it; that's what a rapper suppose to do.