>If he changed it from your stance, what was it before and
>what is it now?

Are you limiting hip-hop to what is popular?

He made the instrument of hip-hop a forefront player, where as before it was limited to playing a supporting role. There were people who did/attempted to do it before, but it became with Dilla.
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