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DJ Premier Featured On Venom’s Upcoming Album

I just got this mail from the French artist Venom, he will have a new full album in 2013 with productions from DJ Premier, Buckwild, MC Zombi, Azaia and thankfully himself (because he’s also a good producer). Guest features are from Edo G, MC Zombi & Minuit. Be on the lookout, he doesn’t play!

btw, it looks like Soulkast also will have another Premo production next year…

Related: Venom – Vigilantes (Feat. Blaq Poet) (DJ Premier Remix) CDQ

DJ Premier Says Age Is One Of The Biggest Problems In Today’s Hip Hop

Via HipHopDX

Big Shug & DJ Premier Planning To Release A Collective Album

Yes, Big Shug himself dropped the news in a recent interview done with claaa7:

c7: All the way from your earliest 12″s and up to all your retail albums, DJ Premier has played a pivotal role in crafting the sound. Do you think it would be accurate to describe Preemo as your main producer?

Shug: Well, not really because what it is is, we’re brothers and we’re the legacy of Gang Starr, so that’s why we make sure to have a few songs on every album. Always letting people know that we have a good sound and great chemistry. Also we’re gonna do a collective album just the two of us, so that’s another thing in the can.

We go back and we’re family, you know, but as far as doing records I get a lot of different people, and Premier produces for everyone; but if you listen to the songs that him and I make there’s a chemistry there and a certain type of sound, so he’s always gonna be there, you know we’re always gonna make stuff together.

c7: That’s interesting you mention a full project with Premier as that is definitely something people been fiending for. What are the plans for its recording and when should we be looking out for that?

Shug: We’ll start working on that very soon, we’re gonna go on the road right after my album comes out – probably me, DJ Premier and Bumpy Knuckles. But as soon as we come back, me and him are gonna start working on that album; that’s definietly something that we’ll do.

You can read the full interview here. Interesting!

Limited Lord Finesse “Inconsiderate Females (DJ Premier 1989 Demo Session)” 5inch now Available to Pre-Order

For all you vinyl junkies, Slice-of-Spice records now accepting orders for the 5inch disc of the ultra rare and unreleased DJ Premier & Lord Finesse track “Inconsiderate Females”. It’s only available in limited edition on sliceofspice.bigcartel.com/category/pre-orders. The release is on August 15th! For collectors only…

“What you have right here is the start of a song created during the making of the Funky Technician LP, that was never finished. Lyrically, it was actually parts of a live routine that I was trying to convert into a song for the album. DJ Premier found the loop and started putting the track together, but once Stu Fine (Wild Pitch Records owner) heard the track he immediately made me stop recording due to the extremely raw content. So this unfinished track remained stashed for over 20 years until recently. It’s funny ‘cos listening to it now makes me wonder what the hell I was thinking [Laughing]. I’m personally glad Stu & DJ Premier made me change my mind, but the track is now being released as an extremely rare limited edition promo. You can thank Rich (Slice Of Spice) for the constant persuasion ‘cos if it was left to me I’d have left it buried in the stash!” -Lord Finesse

Related: Lord Finesse – Inconsiderate Females (DJ Premier 1989 Demo Session) Snippet

DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles Announcing The BAP Remix Contest Winner…

It would be nice if the winner puts a link of the remix in the comment section… congrats!!

Pete Rock vs. DJ Premier in NYC for Free on August 22, 2012

SummerStage celebrates the 20th anniversary of the acclaimed hip-hop brand, Lyricist Lounge. A respected part of hip-hop music and culture, Lyricist Lounge has hosted hundreds of live showcases featuring the best up and coming talent while acting as a career platform for many of today’s superstars. Lyricist Lounge hosts a night featuring two legendary DJs battling it out for turntable supremacy.

Christopher Edward Martin, better known by his stage name DJ Premier (also known as Preem, Premo, or Primo for short) is a producer and DJ and is the instrumental half of hip-hop duo Gang Starr, together with emcee Guru. DJ Premier recognized as one of hip-hop’s most important track masters his style is aggressive and raw. About.com ranked him #1 on their “Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers” list and Rolling Stone identified DJ Premier as arguably “hip-hop’s greatest producer of all time.” DJ Premier’s production has appeared on many of hip-hop’s most important records: Nas’ Illmatic, the Notorious B.I.G’s Ready to Die, Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt and numerous others.

Pete Rock, also known as Soul Brother #1 and The Chocolate Boy Wunda, is a producer, DJ and rapper and is one half of the critically acclaimed group, Pete Rock & CL Smooth. He has arguably pioneered the fusing of jazz, funk and soul into hip-hop as well as laid down the blueprint for beautiful soulful productions in hip-hop. About.com ranked him #3 on their “Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers” list. Pete Rock’s production has appeared on many of hip-hop’s most important records: Heavy D’s Peaceful Journey, Nas’ Illmatic, and Kanye West/Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne to name a few.

Where? East River Park, NYC
When? August 22th, 2012 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Price? FREE
Event website: http://lyricistlounge.com

DJ Premier’s “Live From HeadQcourterz” show back on Sirius XM/Hip Hop Nation

Great news everybody, “Live From HQ” is back every friday on Sirius XM/Hip Hop Nation. The reason for the absence is still unknown. But it doesn’t matter now, i will still try to upload the show with exclusves every week here on djpremierblog, so be on the lookout!! The first show is programmed for June 1st. Have a great day!

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DJ Premier Featured On DJ Khaled Upcoming Album “Kiss The Ring”

Commercial producer DJ Khaled is working hard to finish his follow up album to “We The Best Forever”. His new album “Kiss The Ring” will be out on August 21st. The album will feature the legendary DJ Premier to make the Justice League produced track complete with scratches, that track will also have other guest raps. Khaled’s fifth album “We the Best Forever” was released in July 2011, continuing on to sell more than 120,000 copies in the United States. The LP spawned the singles “Welcome to My Hood” and “I’m On One,” the latter of which was certified triple platinum.

DJ Premier Production On Torch (Maybach Music) Upcoming Album

You Can Now Follow DJ Premier on Instagram

For all the Instagram users, you can now follow DJ Premier! His username is djpremier 😀