Ruff Draft
| Ruff Draft | ||||
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| Released | February 25, 2003 (Original) March 20, 2007 (Re-issue) | |||
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| Length | 18:16 (Original EP) 53:46 (Stones Throw Re-release) | |||
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| Producer | Jay Dee | |||
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| Reissue album jacket | ||||
The front cover of the Stones Throw re-release | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 81/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The A.V. Club | A– |
| HipHopDX | 4/5 |
| MusicOMH | |
| Pitchfork | 6.8/10 |
| RapReviews | 8/10 |
| Slant Magazine | |
| The Skinny | |
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Ruff Draft is an EP reissued as a studio album by American hip hop producer and rapper J Dilla released under the moniker "Jay Dee". It was originally released in February 2003 as an EP, by his then-newly founded label, Mummy Records, and distributed by Groove Attack, a German record label. In 2007, Ruff Draft was extended, remastered, and posthumously re-released as a "solo album" by Stones Throw Records. The re-release sold 8,049 copies in its first week, J Dilla's largest first-week sales as a solo artist.