Music: Bristol-based director Ruffmercy has combined archive footage of J Dilla with hand-drawn animation in the music video for the late American rapper's most recent posthumous track The Sickness (+ movie).
The track ? which features fellow American rapper Nas ? was cut by prolific producer Madlib and features on J Dilla's album The Diary, released in April 2016.

Ruffmercy ? who previously directed a Basquiat-inspired music video for Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs and A$AP Ferg ? was originally approached by Nas' record label Mass Appeal to make a short animated film explaining the album's background. He instead ended up creating a video to accompany the Sickness single.
"Peter Bittenbender, Mass Appeal's co-owner, and label manager Amit Nerurkar know my work pretty well as I have made several videos for them before," he told Dezeen. "They are aware that I make a lot of my videos from experimenting along the way, but we agreed upfront that it would be collage-based and would feature hand-drawn animation."

"A definite was that we knew we could film Nas, but when we started we weren't sure if we could get hold of any J Dilla footage as he passed away in 2006 and there's not much footage of him around," he continued.

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The footage Ruffmercy did acquire was from around 2003 to 2004 ? meaning that the resolution was a great deal lower t...