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Red Bull Music Academy Fireside Chat with DJ Premier

Playlist:

Gang Starr – Intro (The First Step) – Chrysalis
Gang Starr – You Know My Steez – Noo Trybe
Isaac Hayes – Breakthrough – Fantasy
James Brown – Down And Out In New York City – Universal
Gang Starr – The Planet (Skit) – Chrysalis
Rakim – New York (Ya Out There) Instrumental – Universal
Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band – Apache – MGM
Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun – Kinetic
Gang Starr – The Lesson (Dub Mix) – Wild Pitch
Gang Starr – DJ Premier In Deep Concentration – Wild Pitch
Gang Starr – Positivity – Wild Pitch
Gang Starr – Manifest (Remix) – Wild Pitch
Gang Starr – Jazz Music – Wild Pitch
Gang Starr – Jazz Thing – CBS
Gang Starr – Just To Get A Rep – Virgin
Gang Starr – Take It Personal – Chrysalis
Gang Starr – Mass Appeal – Chrysalis
Jeru The Damaja – Statik (Instrumental) – Payday
KRS-One – Outta Here (Instrumental) – Jive
Nas – N.Y. State Of Mind – Columbia
Nas – Represent (Instrumental) – Columbia
Nas – Nas Is Like – Columbia
Jay-Z – Bring It On (Instrumental) – Roc-A-Fella
Jay-Z – D’evils – Roc-A-Fella
Jay-Z – A Million And One Questions (Instrumental) – Roc-A-Fella
Jay-Z – A Million And One Questions – Roc-A-Fella
Notorious B.I.G. – Kick In The Door – Bad Boy
Notorious B.I.G. – Unbelievable (Instrumental) – Bad Boy
Notorious B.I.G. – Ten Crack Commandments (Instrumental) – Bad Boy
Notorious B.I.G. – The What – Bad Boy
Group Home – The Legacy (Instrumental) – Replay Records
Mos Def – Mathematics (Instrumental) – Rawkus
All City – The Actual – (Instrumental) – MCA
Paula Perry – Extra, Extra (Instrumental) – Motown
Crooklyn Dodgers – Crooklyn – MCA
Crooklyn Dodgers ’95 – Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers – MCA
Group Home – Supa Star (Instrumental) – Payday
Show & A.G. – Next Level (Premier’s Nytyme Remix) Instrumental – Payday
The Lox – Recognize – Interscope
Royce Da 5’9″ – Boom (Instrumental) – Game
Bob James – Look Alike – Tappan Zee
Gang Starr – The ? Remainz – Chrysalis
Gang Starr – Full Clip – Noo Trybe

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gimantalon, March 14th 2012 | Posted in Interview

DJ Premier Wants To Do A Miley Cyrus & Justin Bieber Record

In the last 20 years, there have been few hip-hop producers as prolific, talented and versatile as DJ Premier. Born Christopher Martin, the beatmaker has been almost inextricably associated with east coast rap throughout his entire career, but the Houston, Texas native is far more eclectic and unpredictable than his pedigree, and even his discography suggests. In addition to working with late rapper Guru in the group Gang Starr, he’s produced everyone from Notorious B.I.G. to Nas, Jay-Z to Janet Jackson, and even ventured into pop territory with collaborations with the likes of Christina Aguilera. But in the new film “The Re:Generation Project,” he joins several other music industry luminaries to venture into territory even he’s never explored, bringing his expertise to bear even as he’s learning new things about a completely unfamiliar genre: classical music.

The premise of the film was to pair up producers and performers like himself with musical genres they hadn’t worked in, and Premier found himself working with a live orchestra to re-record segments he borrowed from composers like Vivaldi and Brahms. Crave Online caught up with Premier last week via telephone to discuss the process of immersing himself in classical music, experimenting with sources of inspiration disparate even for a producer whose bread and butter is sampling, and moving forward as a producer and performer whose musical palette only continues to expand. Additionally, he offered an unexpected scoop for longtime fans who have been waiting for a reunion between him and one of his most gifted collaborators: Jeru the Damaja.
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gimantalon, February 16th 2012 | Posted in Interview

DJ Premier Talks Upcoming Projects, M.O.P./DJ Premier Collabo Album, Starting A Company with Pete Rock & More

In this 35min audio, Mista Montana and Menace calls once again DJ Premier to chat about his upcoming projects. A lot was said, like: some more detailed info about “The Kolexxion” (like DMX that was almost going to get a feature), he’s going to make a track with Chris Brown, he did new tracks with Afu-Ra (but it wasn’t that good on a lyrical level), he wants Raekwon on NYGz album, new track with Esoteric called “Let It Off”, new track with Termanology & Lil Fame called “Play Dirty”, M.O.P. & DJ Premier planning to make a collabo album, Nas telling DJ Premier they will make the collabo album happen when his contract with Def Jam is over, Jeru the Damaja reunion, Pete Rock & DJ Premier starting a company “PVP” (Premier versus Pete) that’s going to sell merchandise and music, they are going to make 2 (!!) collabo albums (1 commercial/1 underground) and much more:

The first single of DJ Premier/Pete Rock album coming soon with Pete Rock rhyming over a Preem production!

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