Digging Into Coalmine Records w/ Matt Diamond

Hip-hop shows are notorious for starting late, so maybe it’s apropos that Coalmine Records, which has released albums by, among others, El Da Sensei and Bekay, is celebrating its fifth anniversary in this, its sixth, year. “I should have done it last year,” Coalmine Records found Matt Diamond says, “but truthfully I just didn’t have nearly as many things going on.” Now he has a lot going on, including the just released Coalmine retrospective compilation album Can You Dig It?. I caught up with Diamond to find out more about Can You Dig It?, and all of his other projects, as well as what went into the founding Coalmine Records, and how he’s managed to make it grow during a time when most labels are struggling to stay afloat.

Read the full interview at RapReviews.com.