I think I'm addicted to Vinyl! Confessions of a Vinyl Addict, Hip-Hop Stories by DENT. #IamDENT

I can still remember the call I got from my brother Sam. "YO! DENT, do you have any pieces of Vinyl?,....NO?, Okay, I'm start sending you a crate every month!!!!

Whaaaaat!!!? Come on B!, I'm super down, but don't have a record player, I thought to my self. I had a pretty big basement, and thought a few crates of vinyl wouldn't take up to much space, The year was 1996 and Hip-Hop at that time was golden, Sam worked for Sandbox Automatic,com in NYC, and at that time it was one of the hottest sites to get vinyl. He told me he'll be sending me all the new joints and some classic one's to go along with it. Months went by and crates kept coming, and before I knew it, I had a good 400 solid pieces of vinyl in my newly manifested vinyl collection. I kept getting more and more excited each month as I awaited for the package in the mail. Thats when I knew, i was becoming a Vinyl addict!!!!

'You addicted to the black crack!" my boy Noel would tell me. It's crazy, I loved the way it smelled, the new smell and old dust you would get, diggin at your favorite spot. It became apart of me. Record's really have always been apart of me, I can remember my mom telling me stories of when i was young, too young to talk,she would have get together's at the house. They would listen to music, as the little entertainment of the evening, my mom would tell me go grab a record, for example, 'Ted Nugent' and I'd scurry away into the other room and i'd bring back the record she requested. She was so amazed by that. I really had no knowledge or understanding of music at that young age. My Uncle Rex, was in a rock band called 'Out of The Blue' when I was growing up and I always looked up to him. I'd stay over night at his house and I'd listen to Led Zeplin, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Motley Crew records, read Hit Parade magazines and imagine that one day, I'd be a Rock Star.

Maybe i'm not a rock star, but I've collected a lot of musicians dreams throughout the years. expressions and thoughts relaid over analog tunes, pressed in those vinyl grooves.

I've been blessed enough to be able to press up my own music on vinyl. I've learned a lot of tricks of the trade from my fellow vinyl diggers. Noel Zancanella taught me a lot about Jazz and certain labels and musicians to look out for. CHONZ taught me about the old school hip-hop records. Chris Karns hipped me to obscure soundtracks on vinyl. Brother Nate Brown (only of the vinyl kings in Denver), taught me about samples and breaks and chops. My boy Angel Automatic from Chicago kept me updated on all the new school breaks the b-boy's were dancing too. My lil brother SP Double, was a huge contributor to my vinyl addiction, we boosted many record stores and radio stations in our days. I can't say it was right, but it had to be done, lol. I can truly say, I LOVE VINYL. I'm continue to dig and collect records until I leave this earth. I have a pretty nice sized collection. It consists of about 2500, most of it is all heat! It currently is in my children's basement, if anything ever happens to me, I'd like to pass down the art of diggin to them. My boy always told me, it's not the size of your collection, it's about how much weight of gems and music jewels you have in your collection. So I guess like stones throw, 'My Vinyl weighs A Ton'!

Peep out this Throwback video, 'Diggin with DENT'

Check the Method, with Lyric's from the tip of my tongue, as I Freestyle about my Vinyl wall.

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Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting is an inside look into the world of vinyl record collectors in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. It all started out several years ago as nothing more than a way for photographer Eilon Paz to make use of his idle hours. Adrift in Brooklyn after emigrating from Israel, Eilon—a record collector on the side—thought it might be fun to start taking photos of people whose record collections were both larger and weirder than his own. Check out the Trailer!: