The Vinyl Exchange: Crate Diggin’: “Diggin’ means that you have forty dollars in your pocket and you can’t decide if you should either get that original Meters LP or take your girl out for your four year anniversary. Diggin’ means that you buy the LP and make yourself believe that your girl will understand.” Some e-mail debate recently about digging-in-the-crates and hip-hop, so here’s a long and very interesting series of confessions from the heart of Obscurity Culture. The debate, roughly speaking, runs as follows: on the one hand, diggin’ is just anal one-upmanship and sonic effect (including post-production) is the important thing. On the other, diggin’ is a vital part of hip-hop culture and it matters a lot if you don’t know where a break comes from.
I’m on the former side, as you might have guessed – a lot of the guys in this article would disagree most strongly…