Old school hip hop producer DJ Premier has a pretty great series of videos on what producing hip hop was like in the late 80s and early 90s (think stories about recording to ten pound reels of tape that could hold 15 minutes of audio and carrying around binders of floppy disks with stems to sessions with Fat Joe and Big L)
I’ll have to give this a look. ‘Ya playin yaself’ was on heavy rotation for me and my friends back in the day.