It was tactile in the way that comic books are tactile. Aside from the fact the music was everything to me. I think initially it was this: I have a collector gene in my blood. What was it about vinyl collecting that got you? So I thought, “Whoa, better start paying attention to 45s.” He said, “No, no, man, 45s are where it’s at.” He proceeded to play me some and I remember General Crook’s “Gimme Some” was one of them. He had a big stack of 45s and I was looking through going, “What’s the point of these?” I always thought 45s were just shorter versions of things you could find on albums or 12"s. He was from New York and he claimed to have some sort of ties to the Bomb Squad, Public Enemy’s production company. The impetus for that was this cat who was staying in town, which was a college town, and he was the first guy I knew who had an SP-1200. I didn’t get into 45s until about late 1989. At least not where I was, and that really was the case for another eight or nine years. At that time that stuff was plentiful and cheap and nobody cared. I remember the first time I went to a store with the intent of looking for breaks and samples, which was about 1987, and I bought The Payback by James Brown, the second Soul Searchers album and “ Dance To The Drummer’s Beat” by Herman Kelly. He had some Isaac Hayes records and some other jazz stuff like Clifford Coulter, jazz artists with semi-funky cuts on them. Then I started buying older stuff around ’87, because I started being obsessed about sampling and the samples that people were using and what they were from my dad’s record collection I was able to start spotting certain samples. He had access to some records that we weren’t able to find locally and when he decided to sell his collection I bought all his stuff, so I was always out there finding. I remember this one kid who used to go to Sacramento quite a lot, which was the nearest major city to where I lived. 2, which was a Sugar Hill Records compilation, and I bought it because it was good value.Īnyone who was into that culture kinda gravitated towards one another, and in my school there was perhaps only a dozen or so that were really into it. The first album I bought was Street Beats Vol. I mean, the first 70 records I owned, I’d put a little sticker on them denoting the chronology of when I bought them. Then I started getting into hip-hop in about 1982, you know, on the radio, listening to “The Message” and going to the store with my allowance and buying 12" and the few albums that existed then.įrom the moment I started buying vinyl, I was a collector. I collected baseball cards as a little kid, and then when I was about eight I started collecting comic books.
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