The album famously caught the ear of Questlove of The Roots, who has often cited Dilla as the reason he had to relearn how to play drums. The "Dilla Swing"—a quantization style that pushed snares slightly behind the beat and hi-hats slightly ahead—was perfected here. It sounded lazy to the untrained ear, but to musicians, it was sophisticated syncopation. Fantastic, Vol. 2 remains the gold standard for the "soulful boom-bap" era, proving that you didn't need expensive studio musicians to make hip-hop feel warm and organic.