During an interview Scarface also recalled linking up with Guru and DJ Premier on the song “Betrayal” from Gang Starr’s 1998 album Moment of Truth. According to the Houston emcee, he contributed his verse in exchange for a Premo beat, but the H-Town producer has yet to lace him with production.

They sent me a verse, and a beat for me to write my part on,” he said. “I did it on strength but by the end of the day, Premier still owed me a beat. He still owes me a beat 20 years later. And every time I talked to him he’ll be like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I didn’t forget about you.’ Bullshit, you forgot about me. That’s my boy though, that’s my partner. H-Town native.

In addition to his collaborative effort with Beanie Sigel, Scarface is also working on his 12th solo album Rooted. Who knows!

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February 2013:

Thu 7th – Victoire 2, Montpellier
Fri 8th – Unity Club, Blois
Sat 9th – Titty Twister Club, Paris
Sun 10th – L’Observatoire, Paris-Cergy
Tue 12th – La Laiterie, Strasbourg
Wed 13th – Espace Leonard Da Vinci, Antibes
Thu 14th – Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille
Fri 15th – Ned Club, Switzerland
Sat 16th – Stereolux, Nantes
Sun 17th – La Dynamo, Toulouse

France, you lucky bastards 😀

Good news for all the West Coast fans as Comptons Most Wanted will be reunited after 7(?) years on one track of MC Eiht’s long awaited and anticipated album “Which Way Iz West”. To top all that news, that track will be produced by DJ Premier and is named “Last Ones Left”. The last official album of the legendary crew from Compton was released in 2006 (Music to Gang Bang). Like most of us knows, DJ Premier already worked in the past with CMW when he did the b-side remix for “Def Wish II” in 1992. An instant classic for vinyl collectors! With that note there was also more details released on MC Eiht’s new album. Not only this reunion will be produced by DJ Premier, but he will handle the production of 4 more other tracks on the album with one featuring Bumpy Knuckles. The last info update said “Which Way Iz West” will be released in September ’13, lets hope…

btw… the next M.O.P. album will be fully produced by DJ Premier!

Whoohaa, we have a new winner in our small little own DJ Premier awards!! If you compare the vote number with last year you see we had less votes, but I don’t care about that. All I know is that we still had 2,454 votes!! I have to thank my real fans for that. And with no further yip yap, the best DJ Premier Beat of 2012 is:

Congrats to the whole La Coka Nostra clique, they smashed the vote by collecting 28% (aka 675votes) of the votes, what a beat!! What sad is… is that just like last year, this jam didn’t have a vinyl release. So it official I guess… singles on vinyl are death. Here are the full results:

So what’s your opinion? My vote went out to the Nas remix, the way he chopped up that Andraé Crouch sample… BANANAS!! What I noticed is that in 2012 no European artist released a DJ Premier collabo, while two years ago a European artist won the vote… But 2013 will change that, that’s a fact. Damn… with Joey Bada$$ as the first beat in 2013 I can’t wait what Premo has more to offer, lets go!!

Previous winners:
2011 winner: You by Evidence (22%)
2010 winner: Première Salve by Soulkast (20%)
2009 winner: Rap Addiction by Blaq Poet (17%)
2008 winner: Say Goodnight by Reks (30%)

Once again, thanks to all the voters, you were with a lot! And congratulations to La Coka Nostra with the win! AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE !! 2k13 will bring us a lot of fresh new Premo beats!!! End of DJ Premier Blog Awards.

Like every year DJ Premier presents to you his top 20 albums of a year, also in 2011 he did that. There’s always a big commotion around it but check out Premos top 20 of 2012:

Rank:

20. Torae – Off The Record
19. Saigon – Greatest Story Never Told Pt. 2: Breads And Circuses
18. Slaughterhouse – Welcome To Our House
17. Skyzoo – A Dream Deferred
16. Masta Ace & MF DOOM – MA_DOOM: Son Of Yvonne
15. Roc Marciano – Reloaded
14. 9th Wonder & Buckshot – The Solution
13. Public Enemy – Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp
12. Vinnie Paz – Gods Of The Serengeti
11. Lil Fame & Termanology – Fizzyology

10. Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t
09. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city
08. Action Bronson & Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers
07. 9th Wonder & Murs – The Final Adventure
06. Sean Price – Mic Tyson
05. Wu-Block – Wu-Block
04. Showbiz & A.G. – Mugshot Music (Preloaded)
03. Nas – Life Is Good
02. DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles – Kolexxxion
01. O.C. & Apollo Brown – Trophies

Honorable Mentioning: Mayhem Lauren “Mandatory Brunch Meetings”, Fresh Vetz “The Tape Effect”, Killer Mike “R.A.P. Music”, Nutso “Behind These Bars”, Craig G. “Ramblings Of An Angry Old Man”, Big Shug “I.M.4Eva”, La Coka Nostra “Masters Of The Dark Arts”, Ice Water (aka WOADAH) “Holy Water”, Bishop Lamont “The Layover”, 1982 “2012”, Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson “Dice Game”, Large Professor “Professor @ Large”.

Voila.

Closure Note From DJ Premier:

Just in case y’all forgot, I base my list on:

1) Beats selection
2) Lyrics and content that make sense
3) Flows and wordplay and your voice
4) I don’t care how many records you sold and how much your record was played on commercial radio, I live hip hop culture and I respect my pioneers that allowed me to do hip hop as a career
5) Concepts and overall body of making a full LP including the sequence of how your LP flows is so important when I pop it in my sound system

I still judge listening to music on either a boom box or driving in my ride, no iPods and shit. I stick to tradition of how hip hop was played when it made an impact on my life.

As I say every year, if you don’t like my list, fuck it make your own!

One note I will make: I meant to list the Game’s “Jesus Piece” in my list and it was an oversight so I won’t change this list because of my mistake. I still wanted to make a note of it being that I liked his album and I’m still bumpin it in the ride.

Let the hate begin…

“Be Glad or Be Mad” -DJ Premier

DJ Premier’s Top 25 of 2011
DJ Premier’s Top 25 of 2010
DJ Premier’s Top 20 of 2009

!! THE CONTEST IS OVER !!

We picked the 3 winners of the contest out of the almost 100 participants!! These are the winners of our late Christmas gift:

1) bonnylarmes@wp.pl
2) n-jin@aon.at
3) davidmc_skate@hotmail.com

Those three will receive a mail plus package at home very soon, congrats! It was fun to do this giveaway, on to the next one 😀

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We all love vinyl, don’t we? This time I’m going to promote some shit where I’m from (the author of this fanblog)… Europe! To be more exact, this uprising producer -whose name is MPadrums- is from the Spanish island Tenerife (Santa Cruz). He linked up with the UK label Blunted Astronaut Records for his first beat tape releasing on 7″. We from DJ Premier Blog give away 3 copies of this 7″, how? Simple, but before you enter, some more information about this record:

This E.P. is part of the ‘Blunted Beats’ international series – a set of short recordings being released with the aim of helping to shine light on some of the most talented, up-and-coming Hip Hop producers from across Europe. In this volume, we present to you MPadrums from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. Other countries covered in this series include Sweden, Poland, and The Netherlands. 300 copies pressed. Worldwide shipping!

We are giving away 3 copies, you want to win? To win one of these copies you just have to send a mail to bluntedbeats@hush.com with your name and address. Deadline: 26th of December 2012. The winners will also be announced next week and who knows you’ll get a late Christmas present!

Big thanks to MPadrums (You will get there bro!) and Blunted Astronaut Records! Of course you can also buy the 7″ and many more music at their shop. And for more info about MPadrums you can check out his SoundCloud. Support!!

Last week you could bid on 2 unique vinyl items on the famous auction site Ebay. Both “Sun Rises in The East” and “Step in the Arena” are instrumental lp’s pressed by DJ Premier himself to spin at concerts when the albums came out mid 90s. Both albums have DJ Premier produced instrumentals that are never released before. Those two facts plus the unique value of those records made the price go sky rocking in just hours, it’s every vinyl record collectors wet dream to have this hanging in your room. Gang Starr’s “Step In The Arena” was eventually sold for $511.00, while Jeru The Damaja’s “Sun Rises In The East” was sold for $1,226.00 (!). The buyer(s) remains anonymous, but there is a great chance the two lp’s are now heading for Asia. And the seller was not DJ Premier himself to be clear :D.