In the works for many years under working titles such as the rumored "Welcome 2 LA", Dilla's manager, Tim Maynor, said in November 2005 that "The Shining" would come out in February 2006 on BBE and that the "Dilla" self-titled album would follow in the same year. While J Dilla underwent treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for complications brought on by TTP and a form of lupus, he worked on two albums: "Donuts" and "The Shining" using a Boss SP-303 sampler and a small 45 record player his friends brought him. Records his mother and friends would bring were used as sample sources. She recalled it in the "Crate Diggers" documentary: