BEAT DIGGIN' (Original 1998 Version)

[@T.R.S.8.0]

My digging rules 1) Nudity on the cover means it's going to be good 2) Drums on the cover, another good sign 3) Look for thin grooves in the middle of songs (drum break!) 4) Hit that dark basement with the cheap records

[@TKSProductns]

All facts! Just explained to my wife rule #1 😂

[@madimakes]

i've been fooled many times by drums on the cover. LOL...some forgettable joints haha

[@T.R.S.8.0]

@@madimakes Oh my god, so many times but I guess that's the fun part of digging. You really have to earn those rare magical moments. I always loved rescuing one tiny incredible moment on an otherwise forgettable album and turning it into an entire song. It feels like fate or a gift from the universe when that happens.

[@ronport-r3i]

If it’s an all white cover and there’s some cover songs (carpenters/beatles/bacharach etc) with a drummer on board im in

[@T.R.S.8.0]

@@ronport-r3i Cover songs for sure. Those session drummers from the 60s go hard!

[@bigmac5753]

So much history and music. There’s a lot of guys who made magic and it was never seen by the public.

[@product_of_august]

"Best MC is probably flipping burgers" - Nas

[@RXVIVAL]

frr

[@shortythepresident3913]

I'm 45 and i remember It' was amazing the amount of equipment you needed back in the day. Just to even buy a bare bones MPC cost like $4,000 dollars. Now in 2024, in a click of a button every processor ever made is at my disposal, unlimited tracks and memory. Crazy right? You was lucky if you could afford a 8mg simm chip. No need for buying records and taking up space. It's all on a 6 TB SSD. Weeeeewho...No need for a huge mixing board again burning up the light bill. All I have at home is a laptop, my MPC Key 37 and studio monitors. With a 4 TB SSD full of sounds from everything E-MU ever made since Ensoniq days to Proteus 2000 days. Every module. Plus many more. If all the things I have n ow on hardrives were to be used back in the day as hardware, it would cost over $2 million dollars. Technology is awesome.

[@coreyaustin9706]

DJ Disco Wiz and Curtis Fisher said that the 1977 NYC blackouts allowed for looting music equipment that made the birth of hiphop possible.

[@shortythepresident3913]

@@coreyaustin9706 I can believe it. Them niggas in the Bronx were and still are brazen like that. The Bronx is the one borough I would NEVER live in.

[@AntMcQueen558]

@@coreyaustin9706yeah, but those drum machines weren’t created yet.

[@williammarshburn]

I'm 45. I've always kinda been poor. I used to just make tapes of loops bc I had a multi effects bass pedal that could loop like up to like no more than 8 seconds or something. You could overdub n overdub n get crazy layers n textures, n then play over them, but it was nothing big. Id have access to a computer only sometimes, so id end up using fruity loops demo, feeling my heart sink when I got a good grove n the computer froze.... Etc. Yea. Now, I have a decent computer, Akai mpk 249, a K.O. II, an Rz-1... I just need maybe like a lil mixer for the external machines, ya know, maybe buy the new FL studio instead of my pirated version 12, haha, a few vsts, some monitor speakers... Oh. And my bass out of the pawn shop. Lol. Im rambling, but yea. It's almost bittersweet bc I know I would've been blown away by having what I have now back in the day. Eh. It's cool tho. I still get down. It's still work to make something good.

[@williammarshburn]

​@@coreyaustin9706the Pirate Bay has been responsible for some shit too, lol

[@RrizIIDX]

Jesus I cant believe I was recommended a precious gem. Hella dope!

[@busybodyfilms]

Salute

[@adpall1]

It takes patience and dedication to the craft to make this kind of magic. Salute to these cats, staying true to the game

[@busybodyfilms]

Indeed

[@jammawun]

This is so dope. Back in the 90s I was sneaky. I never went record shopping or sampled from vinyl. I got all my samples off the radio. I constantly recorded music off the jazz stations. When I went to school, to work, to a party, when I went to bed. I had my tapes on record. And when I had a moment I went through them and kept the snippets I liked. Thinking back, it was a lot of work. People would always ask where I got my samples, but I'd never tell them. Lol!

[@nocreativity73]

That sounds similar to what vaporwave is kinda like

[@jammawun]

@@nocreativity73 sounds like an interesting guy!

[@ilybain]

Can’t believe I was blessed to have this recommended to me 🙏🏾

[@busybodyfilms]

Salute

[@keironhiggspoet]

very rare you get to hear the absolute masters give insight to their process and in the studio making the magic happen. Godfather Don is my fave, as he's massively underrated and a true scholar of music. he does jazz now and even dominates that.

[@busybodyfilms]

Indeed

[@jjbing3]

What’s his best boom bap album? Imma go check his discography.

[@keironhiggspoet]

@@jjbing3 his debut Hazardous is a great starter piece

[@xenotype3258]

98 the calm before the storm.

[@SBoyEDB]

Rhythm Roulette before Mass Appeal’s Rhythm Roulette series. Good to see Da Beatminerz in both

[@MrTmac2023]

dope documentary of music before the internet and social media. real hip hop

[@busybodyfilms]

thanks

[@刘曦泽]

the magic of sampling

[@selfscientifik1432]

Shout out to Godfather Don!!!! One of the realest to ever do it!!!

[@Dr_Fangaz334]

I appreciate this documentary

[@busybodyfilms]

Appreciate it

[@Dr_Fangaz334]

@@busybodyfilms you're welcome.

[@sharpskilz]

Such love and respect for the source material.. I love this.. It was labelled as exploitation, but its all love. And if the record sells and theres a legal recourse the original artist gets paid. Love it.

[@busybodyfilms]

Thanks. Glad u enjoyed it

[@catchwreck98]

at 3:20 that sample was used by Westside Connection & Nate Dogg on Gangsta Nation (2003)

[@getem-chi8321]

Good catch. I couldnt place it.

[@ihpron]

Kanye used it for beanie Siegel the truth too

[@Ben81-n8r]

This is awesome. Thx for sharing this gift with us. Grtngz from Germany.

[@busybodyfilms]

No doubt

[@Caprico98]

Thanks for the upload Lots of good advice and inspiring words

[@busybodyfilms]

Thanks. Definitely some jewelz dropped here

[@CALIGULA198X]

This is the single most important video on KZbin. I say that without any hint of sarcasm or irony. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for letting me view this once again.

[@busybodyfilms]

Appreciate you. Spread the word

[@markmalasics3413]

LOL, you've got to be joking. A HIP HOP video is the most important video on YT??? Well, I guess that MIGHT be possible if one sets their standards in life to the absolute lowest they can go.

[@cln5510]

​@@markmalasics3413why are you being such an asshole

[@TM-gu6bp]

What makes me happiest is when my son sends me this link and it takes me instantly 20 years back

[@t.s.m3379]

This is so beautiful. Back then, my poor ass couldn't afford the equipment but was obsessed with how and who was making these records. Now, as a poor ass adult, I can at least afford a cheap mpc and live out my fantasy as a kid and make beats. 😂 And I realized it takes forever to come up with something, but it's so worth it when it comes together.

[@busybodyfilms]

appeciated

[@Ortloff]

I remember the documentary. Man, that beat at 14:01 blew me away and it still does!

[@busybodyfilms]

Showbiz unreleased heat 😮😮

[@Vandalio_Saez]

I really wish Godfather Don would make more music him and Lewis Parker got some disgustingly mean 🔥 🔥 on the beats and rhymes

[@busybodyfilms]

The Ill Generator album is good

[@Vandalio_Saez]

@@busybodyfilms true indeed 🔥

[@HistoriesPast]

Thank you for uploading this.

[@busybodyfilms]

No doubt

[@whcchw]

A truly underrated art form 💯

[@antoniorivera747]

I remember seeing this on dvd back in 2010 at college. I bought this DVD from fat beats. This is hip hop as fuck.

[@busybodyfilms]

Salute

[@hapexzm]

thanks for sharing and thanks algorithm ✨ i imagine people studying this gold nugget of hip hop history in 100 years

[@synthesizer.repair]

@9:36 Homies rockin' the #FAIRLIGHT CMI Series 3 on a big screen. No f*$%in' around!

[@jessedeville]

Bleeker Bob's, Second Coming, A-1 (looking so fresh and clean!)... great spots

[@peazeluvunity]

Thanks for uploading this! Absolute legend. This is priceless!

[@busybodyfilms]

Salute

[@TheTriangleOffense47]

And meanwhile, my lazy ass just scours random youtube channels to find the gold samples. I wish I was able to dig with other people and make beats together like this

[@RESIN_SCRAPER]

it really would be amazing bro

[@ainafisayomi7874]

I use KZbin too but I buy records for when I get a player. Got 9 so far and all under $5, have some I can’t find online so I don’t even know what they sound like. Can’t wait to finally sample them.

[@RESIN_SCRAPER]

@@ainafisayomi7874 i’ve been doing the same thing with old jazz records like 50 cent at thrift stores

[@carlospwk]

great doc, thanks for uploading

[@busybodyfilms]

Thanks. Happy to see it inspire ppl

[@ihy6ix]

this is what i needed, thank you.

[@busybodyfilms]

Glad u enjoyed it

[@BrogramFilmss]

the OG samplers hell yeah

[@busybodyfilms]

You're very welcome. Just glad it still resonates with people

[@J57music]

Love this

[@MHR666]

Incredible!! 🙌🙏🔥

[@sleepleZZZV3]

THANKS!!!

[@busybodyfilms]

You're very welcome. Glad u liked it

[@hlahla9479]

Classic 💎

[@ronport-r3i]

showbiz production @ 12:40 sheeeesh 🔥🔥🔥

[@busybodyfilms]

Yes it's incredible. Too bad it wasn't released

[@ronport-r3i]

@@busybodyfilms thanks for these films man, used to be up at 5 am on the family computer watchin this before everyone else woke up :)

[@busybodyfilms]

@@ronport-r3i Good man

[@Willesden_Rab1_TV]

🔥 godfather don ... + diamond d literally "diggin in the crates" for reeeel

[@alkebulansan]

Straight from the gate. 50 bux promo! Damn. That's expensive.

[@Curling_Rack]

"pickup truck production" lol

[@Hawkspits]

Wow. Thanks for this.

[@busybodyfilms]

Salute

[@drewsned1524]

sampling thru a full ssl or api console is dirty work mane

[@HerEvilTwin]

I actually have that record in the thumbnail, pretty decent

[@jjbing3]

I went and bought it after seeing it in the documentary.

[@jstreethiphop]

thanks for uploading

[@busybodyfilms]

No doubt

[@PasqualeDeRosa-n1v]

Around 84/85 I came across a small shop on 6th. around 25 or so. Not a real record store as such. In a crate there were around a dozen or so albums of M.L.K. speech/hymns of the Washington rally. I bought one for 50 odd cents. Tried to play it over some "dance" tracks, okay but I wasn't skilled enough to pull it off big time. "We hold these truths to be self evident". Oh how I smiled when that beauty hit. My favourite find, I shall noe go and play the "B" side, one of the greatest mass congregation singing out there.

[@garliclasagna]

this is so sick

[@busybodyfilms]

appeciated

[@roymoxley2587]

Holds true today take listen and learn Best of my love recently sampled A hit imagine that from the 70’s That music will never die

[@Fraganada]

mil grau... saudações brasileiras, inajar de souza São Paulo!!!!

[@GurilaMangani]

Opa, BH na casa também meu mano! Vivaaaa!!!! 🙌🏻🔥❤️

[@CodeflowinFlowin]

That neon baby

[@kruzcontrolradio]

Fire!

[@busybodyfilms]

Salute

[@mill3ristic]

dammmmn amazing material.. what beat is at 1min 20 secs?

[@Anthony-ue4zm]

straight raw diggin

[@mk-zoo]

BIG SHOUT OUT TO SHADEZ OF BROOKLYN IN STUDIO WITH THE BEATMINERZ !!! EPIC !!!!

[@shortythepresident3913]

And also, the wildest shit is that they spent all their money on reup and never truly made any profit. Just like a lifelong crackhead still searching for that first high. Spending sometimes thousands of dollars a week buying records. Now we get em on KZbin for free. Peace to technology Lord.

[@90SKID-ro4sj]

Godfather Don💣💥

[@joel-w3j1n]

3;29 he played beanie seal the truth an he produced it yrs later 90's no joke

[@freddie5ive]

Kanye produced the truth lol

[@INFIStudios]

No no no

[@kinocox]

It’s the song Gangster Nation by Westside Connection feat Nate Dogg

[@09ve]

shuta tremendo manquete esos beatmaket respesto dede chile real hip hop subterreaneo!!

[@justicecaswell4838]

The Common Freestyle?!!

[@rohthape]

want to go back

[@madimakes]

Godfather Don opinionated ... love to hear someone so into their *craft* and not whether or not they can "go platinum"...good grief, these kids don't now. every beat on this doc...released/unreleased/hard to find....all SLAP...if i was a rhymer how could you *not* want to get on these joints...ion even rap and got me fake rhymin haha

[@busybodyfilms]

Appreciate you

[@williamvillagomez69]

Crazy raw ill. Salute 🫡

[@busybodyfilms]

Thanks for that

[@giftofgabpodcast685]

Dollar bins was my $hit when I was diggin 😊

[@jjbing3]

What do you do now? 🤔

[@blackdaylight]

Yoooooo... I forgot that Mayhem Lauren got his look from Showbiz!! 😅

[@JulesCarolOates]

Never seen Godfather Don's face before.

[@ralphups7782]

what was that ,it looks like a fairlight cmi's midi information projected onto the dividing wall in the studio. good idear for the time. 9:49/21:58 :-)

[@yizz54]

Pure

[@busybodyfilms]

Holla

[@pmproben]

Holy shit, where you got this gem from? Hands down.

[@busybodyfilms]

I made it independently in 1997

[@kwazonthetrackboi]

Dope!

[@lechesangre]

Buah!!!

[@Nebilex]

this kinda reminds me of surfs up

[@ronniewest838]

Religiously Dope‼️

[@riq7315]

what song is that? 1:47 holyyy shit

[@drewsned1524]

game changed so much

[@krisztinabatanovics4363]

Reál New York city hip-hop

[@riq7315]

beautiful peace of history, thank you so much for this doc!

[@busybodyfilms]

Thank you and you're welcome

[@oliverwilkinson7844]

can someone please tell me name of song at 20 seconds in?? when shoes front of shop and they start flippin thru recs

[@lavandetaee]

intro/the river niger by roy ayers

[@Emilindiana]

NOBODY BEATS THE BEATS

[@oxbloodaurelius]

🕊❤

[@RobbieDee-ho1qd]

Showbiz is Best

[@pHiLKizer]

9:50 - 10:40 This is how I feel about the vast majority of trap producers and especially "type beat" makers.

[@sambalushi9763]

What’s the remix or feat in 02:40 really dope mix

[@lavandetaee]

diggin' in the crates showbiz & a.g.

[@sambalushi9763]

@@lavandetaeethx but the mix added to it is doope

[@Discophonic]

Anybody knows what's the name of the beat and/or sample playing in the background between 11:07 and 12:00 is ?

[@Vgallo]

what's that track at around 3:00, that was hard

[@TheCratesMotel]

Chicago by Graham Nash. There's a dope version by French singer Claude Francois as well from 1971.

[@justinmallari6137]

for once the KZbin algorithm came through

[@jawlock2741]

4:52 what’s the beat here?

[@MrTmac2023]

it may have been unreleased, i couldnt even find it using the google ai search . and i maa dj! lol sorry i couldnt help

[@alexhidalgo957]

I need to know also….

[@trvnq]

17:18

[@alkebulansan]

My digging rules if it's Latin jazz: If the title of the track is in English, it's gonna have a lot more jazz funk groove.

[@Fafmontoya]

What is the song at 9:38?

[@busybodyfilms]

Diamond D Hiatus remix

[@Fafmontoya]

@@busybodyfilms thanks brother

[@zerorxspect6656]

does anyone know the song used at 0:09 ?

[@acal452]

Day one Ditc

[@frankensteinhiphop]

anyone know what mixing console they are using

[@maxthedoglover]

4:00

[@Euros3k]

anyone know the song he was sampling 3:58

[@kastrobeatz3223]

Im bouta cut mp on rite now..fellow producers let me hear something

[@brantub]

what's that first beat at 1:18 - was that ever released?

[@theyourmumifyer]

Sounds like a track called visualise. Can’t remember who by. Its not exactly the same, but similar.

[@theyourmumifyer]

Visualize - Mr Complex Slept on it overnight and remembered it hahaha. Yeah it’s got a similar sound but not the same track.

[@Wykesidefruitmachine]

You legend! ​@@theyourmumifyer

[@busybodyfilms]

Unreleased Ziggy Marley remix w Shadez Of Brooklyn

[@tommgsx78]

yo was that AG at about 13:40 ? if so can i get a soul clap??

[@busybodyfilms]

Indeed. AG was ready to attack

[@bakedmuffins4098]

Dude what hip hop song sampled that beat at 3:30 ? I know I’ve heard it

[@getem-chi8321]

somebody else posted up a few comments - gangsta nation 2003 westside connect gang

[@AmberSantana-is3dq]

@@getem-chi8321and beanie siegel

[@jasonsanchez156]

🍻

[@JulesCarolOates]

2:47 The Truth by Beans.