Digging for samples on Youtube: Yay or Nay?

[king hassan]

lol @ the price of those vinyls

I'm not talking about the cost, I'm just saying vinyl is easy to get ahold to. And they have rare shit in that store that's why its a little pricey, but hit up garage sales. I was just looking in the paper over the weekend and somebody listed some records they you could come pick up for free. They said they had 7 boxes to grab. I was helping a lady from the job one day move some shit, she gave me 3 crates of records, my homeboy had a religious conversion and gave me about 4-5 crates of records. Been in a resale shop and copped 100 records for about 25 bucks. Dude was selling records for a quater and I was slidding double records in a sleeve. Shit's not hard niggas just want the easy way out

 

[king hassan]

lol@ u stealin records
nice hustle

u can't deny though... it is cheaper to get samples online

It's the experience my dude. Plus you get to meet other cats and brainstorm. Never know who you'll meet when you out and about face to face. And plus there is nothing never wrong with have a record collection

 

[money mob]

It's the experience my dude. Plus you get to meet other cats and brainstorm. Never know who you'll meet when you out and about face to face. And plus there is nothing never wrong with have a record collection

U right about that. Long ago, I bumped into Q-Tip when I was digging at this record spot in the village.

 

[Roster Player #99]

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I'll put it like this, if you (or if you live with your parents) can afford to pay for internet to download stuff on, you can pay a dollar or even 10 to 50 cents for records. Nigga for my first 2 years of collecting I bought ALL dollar bin and under records....some places even had deals ( get ten 25cent records for a dollar) shit like that, and now my shit is sittin pretty. And I didnt buy bullshit either, I barley if at all buy records that are well known, shit some records I found for a quarter are being sold for hundreds {i.e. John Renbourn - The Lady and The Unicorn} real heads know what it is. My thing is, if you half steppin with this shit then step the fuck off, its a slap in the face to say records are too expensive, but the internet isnt??...

Like I said I dont knock cats who do it, but at least have a legit reason for not doing it or not knowing better. For example some cats know what sampling is but dont know the foundation of what sampling is...they know, "chop this old Lonnie Liston Smith or loop this Marvin Gaye" but dont know the value of the Here, My Dear LP or the depth of the Flying Dutchman Record label is, let alone what the Flying Dutchman Record label is....

Thats the only thing bothers me with a lot people who wanna be producers or beats makers...or whatever niggas call themselves nowadays

 

[king hassan]

I'll put it like this, if you (or if you live with your parents) can afford to pay for internet to download stuff on, you can pay a dollar or even 10 to 50 cents for records. Nigga for my first 2 years of collecting I bought ALL dollar bin and under records....some places even had deals ( get ten 25cent records for a dollar) shit like that, and now my shit is sittin pretty. And I didnt buy bullshit either, I barley if at all buy records that are well known, shit some records I found for a quarter are being sold for hundreds {i.e. John Renbourn - The Lady and The Unicorn} real heads know what it is. My thing is, if you half steppin with this shit then step the fuck off, its a slap in the face to say records are too expensive, but the internet isnt??...

Like I said I dont knock cats who do it, but at least have a legit reason for not doing it or not knowing better. For example some cats know what sampling is but dont know the foundation of what sampling is...they know, "chop this old Lonnie Liston Smith or loop this Marvin Gaye" but dont know the value of the Here, My Dear LP or the depth of the Flying Dutchman Record label is, let alone what the Flying Dutchman Record label is....

Thats the only thing bothers me with a lot people who wanna be producers or beats makers...or whatever niggas call themselves nowadays

A lot of truth in this post. I copped Idris Muhammad's "Power of Soul" album for .75, and you know that album came out with 3 different album covers and hard as hell to find on wax. And it was on the CTI label that went out of print in the 70's. You can find the cd easily but wax not as much.

But when you out digging you find some gems and I've copped some unknown shit just by looking at a crazy cover and it had some musical gems on the album. I've spent up to 4 hours in a record store digging, chopping it up with other dj's that come through. We brainstorm and exchange info while we digging, and like my man said how he met Q-Tip digging, that's some cool shit because he is a crate digger.

And like Tony my shit is sitting pretty too, got insurance on my shit, I even have this in my collection, and it's not a repress either

 

[money mob]

its funny that we are talking about this because I just got laced with a box of 45s yesterday.

And this brings me to my next thing....

Part of the reason why I also do some e-digging is because I have some dope records with scratches in the best parts. That shit is frustrating as hell. I just grab the MP3 version of the album online for backup.

I also agree with Tony. But the way I see it, either diggers embrace doing the knowledge or get lost. Either way, its no sweat off anyone's back but theirs. Most e-digging cats dont even know who to dig for or even know HOW to dig efficiently.

 

[Kang_Solomon_Grundy]

A lot of truth in this post. I copped Idris Muhammad's "Power of Soul" album for .75, and you know that album came out with 3 different album covers and hard as hell to find on wax. And it was on the CTI label that went out of print in the 70's. You can find the cd easily but wax not as much.

But when you out digging you find some gems and I've copped some unknown shit just by looking at a crazy cover and it had some musical gems on the album. I've spent up to 4 hours in a record store digging, chopping it up with other dj's that come through. We brainstorm and exchange info while we digging, and like my man said how he met Q-Tip digging, that's some cool shit because he is a crate digger.

And like Tony my shit is sitting pretty too, got insurance on my shit, I even have this in my collection, and it's not a repress either

one of my favs - broke one while moving and found another one; I used to by Kudu joints off-rip

 

[king hassan]

its funny that we are talking about this because I just got laced with a box of 45s yesterday.

And this brings me to my next thing....

Part of the reason why I also do some e-digging is because I have some dope records with scratches in the best parts. That shit is frustrating as hell. I just grab the MP3 version of the album online for backup.

I also agree with Tony. But the way I see it, either diggers embrace doing the knowledge or get lost. Either way, its no sweat off anyone's back but theirs. Most e-digging cats dont even know who to dig for or even know HOW to dig efficiently.

Bam! You just said a mouthfull then. And they not even really sampling, they just looping a chorus instead of different parts of a song

 

[king hassan]

one of my favs - broke one while moving and found another one; I used to by Kudu joints off-rip

Man that album is the shit, the first song on there is a Kool G Rap sample. I also got the one with "Crabapple" on there. I found mines in a resale shop on Stony Island for a buck. I was looking for something else, never even knew who he was, I was in my mid 20's. I just bought it off a whim and did'nt realize I had a classic hard to obtain record. I got the yellow cover, my boy Gary got the black one and this cat Kareem got the red cover.

 

[king hassan]

Some of my records I've bought over the years. Got some on the left of this stack and plenty more in the basement View attachment 8426

 

[king hassan]

you're collection needs work

I have way more than that, they're in the basement, and it's 9 crates to the left of that. So I have been working on my collection homie. And plus they doing that for a living, you supposed to have a lot of records like that. I've seen Pete Rocks, Jermaine Dupri, Jazzy Jeffs, those cats make my shit look puny.