IDK and Eminem Release "Welcome," Produced by J Dilla

By Dani Reyes, November 13, 2026

IDK and Eminem's "Welcome," produced by J Dilla, is out November 13, 2026. The official music video is on IDK's YouTube channel. The single is on Apple Music, through Shady/Interscope.

IDK's own credit

IDK posted the record on his official X account. The post, published at 12:03 AM Eastern on November 13, reads:

"My goal is to contribute to the very thing that changed my life as much as I can. I'll forever be in love with hip-hop. WELCOME FT. EMINEM [PRD. By J Dilla]"

The official video title carries the same producer credit, "Prd. By J Dilla."

IDK and Eminem, "Welcome," produced by J Dilla. Official music video, on IDK's YouTube channel.

The sleeve prints IDK, Eminem, and J Dilla across the top of a grainy, blue-tinted close-up, with Japanese lettering, ようこそ, at the center. That word means "welcome," the same title as the English release.

A Dilla credit, two decades on

J Dilla, born James Yancey, came up in Detroit and died in 2006, at 32, which makes this credit posthumous. In a February 2006 New York Times obituary, Kelefa Sanneh called him "the innovative and influential hip-hop producer known as J Dilla or Jay Dee," and placed him on records with Common, Erykah Badu, A Tribe Called Quest, D'Angelo, and his own group, Slum Village. A 2023 New York Times report said he "would become one of the most influential producers in hip-hop," and that he left "an expansive body of work," including production for Busta Rhymes, Badu, A Tribe Called Quest, and Common.

The single follows Eminem's Infinite EP, the other Eminem release out November 12, 2026.

My read

IDK wants the producer line to introduce the record. The post puts a Dilla credit in the same breath as a promise to contribute to the music that changed his life. Twenty years after Yancey's death, that is still a serious way to present a single.

Dani Reyes, Behind the Boards. Credits check: J Dilla on "Welcome."