{"id":147298,"date":"2020-11-11T09:08:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T08:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=147298"},"modified":"2020-11-10T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T07:46:21","slug":"diamond-d-interview-for-the-peoples-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/diamond-d-interview-for-the-peoples-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond D Interview for the People\u2019s Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zi0w-CmLCI0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <em>People&#8217;s Party With Talib Kweli<\/em>, <strong>Kweli &#038; Jasmin Leigh<\/strong> sit down with Grammy-winning producer, emcee, and one of the founding members of the legendary <strong>D.I.T.C.<\/strong> crew &#8211; <strong>Diamond D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>During this interview, the longtime friends discuss <strong>Diamond D<\/strong>&#8216;s deep contributions to the annals of hip-hop history. They get rolling by talking about <strong>Diamond D<\/strong>&#8216;s early days &#8212; growing up in the &#8220;Boogie Down&#8221; Bronx. Next, he discusses learning to DJ under the tutelage of <strong>Jazzy Jay<\/strong>. They go on to explore how the <strong>D.I.T.C.<\/strong> collective came together, the legacies of <strong>Big L &#038; Fat Joe<\/strong>, <strong>Diamond<\/strong>&#8216;s classic album <em>Stunts, Blunts &#038; Hip Hop<\/em>, the producers that embodied the 90&#8217;s golden era sound, as well as the lost art of beat digging and the new art of &#8216;e-digging&#8217;. Later, <strong>Diamond<\/strong> gets into his connections and the work he&#8217;s done with groups like <strong>Brand Nubian, A Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees<\/strong>, and more. He goes on to talk about his more recent work in the <em>Diam Piece<\/em> album series, and the trio evaluates the best years of hip-hop and the albums that defined them. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"147299\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/diamond-d-interview-for-the-peoples-party\/yt_thumb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yt_thumb.jpg?fit=1280%2C721&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,721\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yt_thumb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yt_thumb.jpg?fit=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yt_thumb.jpg?fit=640%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yt_thumb.jpg?fit=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-147299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yt_thumb.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yt_thumb.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yt_thumb.jpg?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yt_thumb.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of People&#8217;s Party With Talib Kweli, Kweli &#038; Jasmin Leigh sit down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-CjM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}