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This track opens "Donuts" and already introduces the major thematic concern of the record: Dilla himself. "Donuts" is a highly autobiographical work, and a meditation on life itself as Dilla was gravely ill during its production.
The track is notably the same as the end of “Welcome to the Show,” hence its title of “Donuts (Outro).” By making the first song the outro and the last song an introduction, Dilla shapes the album into a loop, a “donut” of sorts, without beginning or end.
Irish author James Joyce made a similar move in "Finnegans Wake", opening the book with a sentence fragment which continues from the book’s unfinished closing line, making the work a never-ending, recursive cycle. Creating this record in his final days, it is likely JD was contemplating the themes of death and rebirth that Joyce was also preoccupied with.
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