With production credits from the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and dozens more Hip Hop icons, Buckwild is one of Hip Hop’s most prolific and acclaimed producers. Now, in a recent interview with Gasface, the D.I.T.C. beatsmith recalls his early production career.
Buckwild recalled the secretive nature of sampling in the ’90s and every producer’s desire to find the rarest sample. He said that while he would horde samples – even buying 25 copies of a single Dorothy Ashby record – he would always trade vinyl records with his D.I.T.C. partners Lord Finesse, Showbiz and Diamond D.
“Back then, sampling was secrecy and it was like who had the hottest sample – the Holy Grail, the rarest sample,” he said. “My biggest [find] was going [to] Chicago to see No I.D. with VIC, we went digging and I found a box of Dorothy Ashby [records]. It was [The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby], the one with the rug. I found like, 25 sealed copies, so I took them back to the Roosevelt and sold them for $250 a pop. I gave some away – I gave Finesse one, I think I gave Diamond one, I’m not sure, I think I gave Showbiz one. I gave away a few to my friends, and the rest I took them to the convention and traded them.”
He continued, “We always shared; if I had a beat that I didn’t like, I could go to Finesse’s house and we would something called a junk pile. That’s something that might not be hot to him, but it might be hot to me, so I might rummage through his junk pile, and he might come to my house and rummage through my junk pile. He might find something with that and the same thing, or if he had a record that he wanted to flip, we might do the same thing.”
Check out the full interview below.
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How is no one commented on this? People…please do your homework and recognize real hiphop. Buckwild is an underrated Producer…those who don’t know DITC….recognize and respect real hiphop.
Stop listening to all this garbage: Weezy, Jeezy, Drake, Minaj (anyone with a Y-Chromosone should not be listening to her anyways), Two Chains, etc.
I’m out….real hiphop 4 life. Pze
Nigga, shut the fuck… up.
@ZeeBBoy
It’s people like you that make fans of real hip hop look like lames.
Now this is the type of news i wanna see. I’m surprised they even show something like this on hip hop dx.
This is classic hip hop so recognize you idiots.
true dat
Still diggin in 2013 thanks to these guys, true inspiration to me as a producer…
Semen samples?
One of the best producers from the 90’s
inspiring interview…DITC rip big L
Buckwild…..one of my most favorite producers of all time. I really hope he and Celph Titled can release a sequel to “Nineteen Ninety Now” because that album really restored hip-hop humanity back at 2010. Anyways, nice to hear that the D.I.T.C. weren’t jacking beats and were helping each other on samples by creating “junk piles” for each to scavege through 😀
“restoring humanity”…..
Good ol’ days
DOPE
Fo real…I miss `em
me too!
underrated producer from the golden era…
Loved the nineteen ninty now album with celph titled, dope producer.