Questlove on J Dilla, Vinyl Snobs & Lo-fi Hip-hop: Love Music Again

(rock music)

(record crackling)

(jazz music)

I kind of scoff and laugh at vinyl heads, you know?

Like it's a way to nuance their cool,

like, oh man, I buy vinyl only.

There's feeling in all types of audio forms.

J Dilla, one of my heroes, was in love with the cassette.

He would often use a track just for a cassette hiss.

Knowing that cassettes were a thing of the past.

Like this was for music he was making in 2002.

Like way into the CD age, he'd still...

felt that Hip-Hop should be best experienced

the way that he experienced it,

which was an amount of imperfections,

sort of a low-fi sounding audio experience.

And I respect that, you know, again I'm not one of these

people that has to make sure that it's like A.I.F.F. form

or this 320 bit perfect sounds,

I'm open, I will rip something off YouTube

if it moves me a certain way.

(jazz music)