DIGGAMAN

Biography of Digga



Ask most hip-hop fans who their favorite rapper

is and they'll probably answer with an emphatic "Biggie!" Have them

list their Top Ten All-Time Favorite Hip-Hop albums and bet you Ready To Die

will be included somewhere in it. Then finally ask them to list their five

favorite songs from that album. Guaranteed that three of their favorite five

will be "One More Chance," "Me And My Bitch" and

"Everyday Struggle." That would mean the producer behind the

historical tracks of those classic songs has helped the Notorious B.I.G

become, arguably, the Greatest Rapper of All-Time. No we're not talking about

Puffy here (check the credits). We're talking about none other than Depth Charge's MC/producer Digga (formerly known as Lord Digga).

For you true

hip-hop heads, you might remember the name from Masta Ace's INC crew back in

the early '90's. Anyone who even remotely followed Ace's career recalls his

joints "Jeep Ass Nigga," "Who Ya Jackin" and

"Drunken Style." Digga produced them all. But when Digga started

noticing that the INC wasn't so incorporated, he decided to get gone. "It

seemed like Ace was out for himself and trying to limit my potential. So I

had to get out on my own and show the world what I was made of" states

Digga. "It's sought of like how the Raptors held back Tracy McGrady,

when he really had enough skills to be the best player in the league."

So Digga

bounced and started doing things his way. Talk about your way being the right

way. A year after his departure, Digga wound up being mentioned in Source

magazine's Unsigned Hype section for his production and found he and his production

partner's beat tape in the hands of an un-signed Biggie via Unsigned Hype

editor Matt Life.



 

But despite

producing tracks for faded artists like The Cella Dwellas ("Land Of

The Lost" and "Realms 3") as well as

hip-hop household names like ODB ("Brooklyn Zoo Remix"), Digga is

more than a superb track chef with a keen engineer's ear, he's also the one

of the fiercest you'll find in a vocal booth. There's none other who can mix

witty intelligence, sharp humor and true hardcore so well and then serve it

with a disciplined delivery and bully baritone. This is what had the West and

East Coast underground in love with Digga back in '98 when he dropped

"Flows Is Tight." He beautifully used a sample from the theme music

of the renown TV show "The Price Is Right" and an irresistible hook

to distract listeners as they got hit upside their heads with raps as hard as

granite. It was Digga at his beston all levels.



12 Me & My Bitch

Produced by Norman & Digga/Bluez Brothers, Chucky Thompson and Sean Puffy Combs

Instruments by Chucky Thompson

Nashiem Myrick That was a remix because we already had a track for that. I dont know why Puff aint use the original track. Either he couldnt clear the sample, or I dont know what happened. I forget the original song. It probably was an Al Green record, but I dont know. I cant remember. We did it over. Chuck played the guitar. He used original instruments. I guess that was another sample problem.

Digga The original sample that we used was from a Minnie Riperton song that Stevie Wonder wrote. When they sent it out to him, he was like, I love the song. But this cursing, Im not with it. You cant use it. So they got Chucky to come in and add some bars here and take some bars there. He just had to change up the music so that Big could use it.

Big started to record Me & My Bitch at the end of a session and he didnt like it. So he kind of like erased it and he went into another studio, wrote some more stuff and then he came back out. It probably took him a good 20, 30 minutes. He ate before he went in, and then he comes out like he just fucking walked to Russia. Aint no more chicken wings? Order some more wings! Like, Yo, we just finished eating, you was in there for like 20 minutes. He just burnt all that shit off. Big was just a real funny-ass dude at all times. The only time he had a little grimace on his face was when Puff tried to be an asshole. When that was going on, Big was like, This fucking guy! Hes trying to rule me. I cant rock like that.?

After a four

year hiatus, which included some personal and business obstacles, Digga has

weathered the turbulence and now with the assistance of DEPTH CHARGE he

is ready to re-introduce himself to the world of rap music. "I can

basically service the whole industry, I got tracks, I got rhymes and I can

engineer your project. How many artist do you know that can do all that,"

affirms Digga "; I mean one of the best rappers ever co-signed on me, so

that should tell you my level of skill."



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