The Shining is the third studio album by American hip hop producer and rapper J Dilla, who died on February 10, 2006.

Discounting the instrumental album Donuts, The Shining was the first full-length solo release by J Dilla (featuring newly recorded vocals) since Welcome 2 Detroit five years earlier, and as such was highly anticipated.

Dilla features some of his past collaborators, such as the aforementioned Common on two songs, Busta Rhymes, D'Angelo, Madlib, and Black Thought on the LP.

The video included appearances by Common, Slum Village, will.i.am, Frank-N-Dank, Karriem Riggins, Black Thought, Talib Kweli, and J Dilla's younger brother, Illa J.

A promo single called "Love", featuring Pharoahe Monch, was leaked onto the internet in February 2006, days after J Dilla's death.

Video producer and director Brian "B.Kyle" Atkins of Okayplayer Films[16] was in the process of putting together a production consisting of footage he had shot with J Dilla.

Because he usually chose to enter beats manually on a drum machine rather than quantizing, he developed a "behind-the-beat" style - wherein a track's percussion will play very slightly prior to the 4/4 beat that would be heard on a click-track, in a manner which is perceptible but more minute than would normally ever be written in music notation, giving the impression of the music "dragging behind" the beat - has caught on with young jazz musicians, who are now incorporating it into their music as well, developing techniques to reproduce Dilla's studio style in live performance.