EDAN

• Famous "hip hop diggers" stories.

  EDAN

  January 2006

  I see Edan around Boston all the time. I saw him once at L**ney T**es, I had just gone through these unsorted piles of 70's soul LP's they had just put out, when he came in with his vestax.
  
  I was like, "good timing, they just put out a bunch of good shit" (wishing I had a portable cause it was all pretty obscure mid-70's soul/funk/disco that I wasn't all that up on)
  
  Dude just made a noise at me like
  
  So I just stepped off - nothing was gonna piss me off cause I had just pulled a minty OG of Fatback Band Let's Do It Again for $10...
  
  Dude rolled by a few minutes later when I was in the jazz, all 180 style "hey, so, what did you pull out of there?"
  and I gave him an "eh, just some shit..." and an
  

  
  ...and then you coolly lit a cigarette and rode off on a Harley...right mousey?
  
  Who are these people?
  Yo, if you're who I think you are, then as I remember, it was a harmless, even a friendly exchange...
  No need to dramatize...
  Regardless, I'm not "famous" and I don't really care to have better records than the next man, whatever that may entail...
  I'm just trying to get by and stuff.
  
  Here's a lil' celeb digging story though...
  One time I was in this weird record shop in Bristol or Liverpool, UK or some shit...
  The shop was straight connected to the hotel I was staying at...it just seemed like I was in an obscure corner of the Earth or whatever...
  So I'm fucking around in the bins and I hear that fuckin' clown voice...so I turn around and its Jello Biafra...he was looking for Western soundtracks or some shit...
  Incidentally, while overhearing Jello Biafra speak, I was staring at a copy of "Almighty Seven" by Cutmaster KG & Dollar Bill in the bin there...I already had one so I passed on that shit...I kinda regretted it later...this was before things got a bit crazy with the mid-school rapp prices.
  So like two years later, I'm back in bristol for a show or whatever and I stop off in a little flea market type spot and I find that same copy of "Almighty Seven" with that same 4 pound price tag sitting in this other dealer's little shack/stand...some lucky shit...
  I think I ended up trading that shit to Kohji/K-Prince for some record that he had ten of...
  anyways, whenever I hear that "C-C-C-C-Cos' I'm Righteous" from the Dollar Bill shit, I think of Jello...
  which is kinda ironic considering that 5 percenters don't fuck with swine...
  SO yeah...
  PEACE TO EVERYBODY...
  HAPPY NEW YEAR!
  -EDAN