“Imagine trying to live without projects, without a career trajectory, or relationships or hobbies. These are central elements of a human life … we cannot abandon our projects to live in the present. We must integrate them somehow … One can live engaged in the present and yet also be engaged by one’s projects that extend into the future.”5 Given what we know of him, continuing to make his music between rounds of dialysis, it’s a sentiment Dilla would appear to have shared.
