{"id":216357,"date":"2025-09-14T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=216357"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:32:20","slug":"beat-diggin-2003-version-music-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/beat-diggin-2003-version-music-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Diggin&#8217; (2003 Version) &#8211; Music Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GS0QC6whxGM?si=XWe0MksbcdJcitGF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beat Diggin&#8217; is the original documentary about the art of turning old vinyl into new music.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Filmed in New York during Hip Hop&#8217;s &#8220;golden age&#8221;, the film features some of the music&#8217;s most respected producers \u2013 <strong>Diamond D<\/strong>, <strong>Showbiz<\/strong>, <strong>Buckwild<\/strong>,<strong> Da Beatminerz<\/strong> and <strong>Godfather Don<\/strong> \u2013 at work and talking shop. We see them find obscure records in record shops, create tracks in the studio, and even record bangers by <strong>D.I.T.C.<\/strong>,<strong> CRU<\/strong> and<strong> Shadez Of Brooklyn<\/strong>, as well as play some crazy unreleased heat.<\/p>\n<p>At a time before YouTube and social media were the norm, Beat Diggin&#8217; put a face on important, \u201cfaceless\u201d artists. Since its release in 1998, the film has gained somewhat of a cult following and was selected for the <em>New York International Independent Film Festival<\/em>. Now everybody can watch it online for free, in both the original 1998 version and a longer 2003 version with more footage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"216359\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/beat-diggin-2003-version-music-documentary\/snimka-zaslona-2851\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"Snimka zaslona (2851)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?fit=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Snimka-zaslona-2851.webp?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Beat Diggin&#8217; is the original documentary about the art of turning old vinyl into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[12,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day","category-lifestyle","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-UhD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216357","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}