Yesss, I’m so full of joy. The best DJ Premier beat of 2011 is decided thanks to 4,098 (!!) Premo fans to be exact. That’s a lot more votes in compare with last year… damn this blog is growing. Can’t thank the people who vote enough. And with no further yip yap, the best DJ Premier Beat of 2011 is with no surprise:

Evidence won the DJ Premier Blog Awards like a boss, 22% aka 912 votes of all voters voted for him. If you know we never had a list to vote for that big it’s really impressive. Too bad this single never had a wax release. We may still love vinyl, but it’s dying for real. Here’s the full list people:

What do ya’ll think? The funny thing is, I voted for Jump Up (Remix)… I think that instrumental is really underrated, I funked with that a lot in 2011. It was choosing between Fastlane or Jump Up (Remix). Last year an European artist won, now the first European artist is Shock & Amaze by Prop Dylan on the fourth place, also congrats to him! Looking forward to hear the best beat of 2012!!

Previous winners:
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 Evidence with the win! AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE !! 2k12 will bring us a lot of fresh new Premo beats!!! End of DJ Premier Blog Awards.

The X Label brings to you a limited edition recreation of Guru’s (MC Keithy E) Demo Cassette Tape. This recreation of Guru’s demo cassette tape consist of the exact image Keithy E made for the cover, Keithy E’s handwriting of the songs on the tape, and the actual songs from the demo. Pop it in your vintage boombox to listen to Guru’s never before-heard songs or put it on a mantle and keep it as an amazing collectors item that was a part of the foundation of Guru’s hip hop legacy. Tape info: In 1986 MC Keithy E (now known as GURU) completed a demo tape that featured the early members of Gang Starr; DJ Mikey Dee and Damo D (Beat Box). The tape that was recorded at “Radio One” studios in Boston, includes multiple racks featuring the young Guru rhyming and displaying his singing voice over a bare drum machine. The demo tape was clearly made and sent directly to Magnus Johnstone (a local DJ/Radio Host in Guru’s hometown of Boston) for his show. Both the demo tape’s cover and the actual tape are labeled “for Magnus”. Magnus Johnstone founded Lecco’s Lemma radio show in 1985. It was a groundbreaking hip-hop radio show, the first of its kind in Boston and one of the only rap radio shows in the world at that time. What made it even more revolutionary for the emerging Boston hip-hop scene was that Magnus encouraged local rap groups to come down to the station and perform on the air. Since the show was Boston’s outlet for up and coming hip hop artists, it was a big deal to appear on the show. This demo tape earned MC Keithy E and crew the right to be on the show and share their talents to the listeners.

You can buy this unique tape here.

DJ Premier has something to say to all the producers here:

BUMPY AND ME WANT YOU TO BY THE ACAPELLA AND SHOW US WHO CAN REMIX IT AND MAKE IT BANG !!! WE WILL CHOOSE THE BEST 3 AND PLAY THEM ON OUR SHOWS AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET RECOGNIZED FOR IT IF THEY ARE CHOSEN. YOU CAN SEND YOUR VERSIONS TO BOOMBAP101@GMAIL.COM -DJ Premier

Get your skills together producers!! You can now buy the acapella on iTunes or Amazon, or you can listen to it on Spotify. Important: when you finished your product and mailed it to DJ Premier, be sure you also post that phat joint on our forum and share it with me and the other DJ Premier fans around the globe! Get recognized!

DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles collabo album “The Kolexion” coming out on March 27th, 2012. Also a new EP will be release before the album!

December 7th:

8:00pm – Project Introduction
8:10pm – Film Screening
8:25pm – DJ Q&A
8:45pm – Performance by DJ Premier

Stream will be live here.

Afu-Ra is about to drop a new album in February, 2012. Before he wanted to release a new album named “Voice Of A Brooklyn Star” in September ’11 -actually a day before the album digital release- his studio in Switzerland burnt down. Luckily nobody got hurt but he lost most of his album cuts in less than an hour. So his album was delayed to February ’12. He took his bags back to his hood in Brooklyn and started recording new cuts. Meanwhile the album title is changed to “Body Of The Life Force Part 2”. In order to promote his album he released a press release stating the album will be featuring M.O.P., Sadat X, Nine, H. Stax and more. Productions will come from The New DJ Premier, Mike Rone and upcoming talents from around the world.

‘I was thinking of many ideas for this record, the only thing that made sense was represent your hood. Brooklyn I am the the body of life force. This album all the songs I payed close attention to the vocal performance. I wanted to drop spine tingling lyrics and express my self with the voice people deserve.’

Meanwhile everyone wants to hear Afu-Ra on a brand new DJ Premier beat, but it looks like it’s not going to happen for this album.

‘I will always wanna work with him [DJ Premier] but if he does not have the time for me, I can’t keep the people that matter more to wait any longer’. Then The New DJ Premier is Afu-Ra himself. ‘I know what I know, and that is to produce quality classic music. So for all who love the sound of Afu-Ra from now on he will be The New DJ Premier, “Body Of The Life Force 2” combines all of the ingredients Afu-Ra is known for and more.’ The first big cut from the album was posted on DJ Premier Blog some weeks ago. You can now buy it on iTunes.

Related: Afu-Ra – Big Boyz (Feat. Vinnie Paz, C Ray Walz, Guilty Simpson, Nine, El Da Sensei & Hannibal Stax) (7 Remix) (Prod. by Mike Rone)

Charli Baltimore is back!! She busy recording for her new album which remains still untitled, but the release date is already confirmed: 04/24/2012. Her only record with DJ Premier “Everybody Wanna Know” is already 12 years old, but a reunion is in the making. Charli Baltimore, now signed to “Gracie Productions”, wants to work again with DJ Premier. And great news: it probably will happen, because DJ Premier’s label “Works of Mart” is currently working together with her label to release his collabo album with Bumpy Knuckles! Everybody still wanna know!

Related: Heather B Returns With DJ Premier For Her New Album

Good news, we finally have a release date for DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles collabo album “The Kolexion”, eyes open: 27th of March, 2012. You can now pre order the album on vinyl & cd (and limited with autograph) via the webshop of the label Gracie Productions. The album will have one feature: Zack De La Rocha (Rage Against the Machine). Support this street shit!

Now that Spotify is available in most of the countries is this the ideal moment to post. DJ Premier Blog joins the hype and is now available on Spotify! You can now listen legal to a lot of songs, we made this playlist with all the DJ Premier produced tracks that are available in the Spotify database. Go like that playlist and share it with your friends on facebook/twitter!! Check out the link:

DJ Premier Blog Playlist (331 tracks, 19 hours of music)

Hate or love the program, but it could be handy for some.

END POLL: 1 JANUARY 2012

With Kendra Morris being the last beat of 2011 it’s again that time of the year my friends. We didn’t get NYGz, Nick Javas nor KRS-One, Pete Rock and Get Used To It DVD. But we did had a productive year, there’s much more to choose from than last year. I wonder if I can out due last year vote succes. Be aware, judge strictly on the beats, not the rhymes. It’s the beat that matters in this poll… Who will run away with the award?? This one could be tricky!!

2010 winner: Première Salve by Soulkast (20%)
2009 winner: Rap Addiction by Blaq Poet (17%)
2008 winner: Say Goodnight by Reks (30%)

In 2008 we had 359 votes, in 2009 we had 950 votes, in 2010 we had 3 118 votes. LETS BEAT THAT RECORD MY FAMILY!! WHO WILL WIN THE AWARD??? VOTE VOTE VOTE!!

Thank you for your time and support over the years! -gim

For one night only, MTV2 is bringing back “Yo! MTV Raps!,” the show that turned on a generation of MTV viewers to a mysterious new musical form called hip-hop.

The show, which originally aired from August 1988 through 1995, helped bring once little-known acts like Ice-T, N.W.A., A Tribe Called Quest and Public Enemy to households across America as hip-hop exploded in popularity. The return comes after the revival of such MTV shows as “Beavis and Butt-head” and “120 Minutes.”

The show will return as a 30-minute retrospective called “Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts,” and will on MTV2 immediately after the first-ever “Sucker Free Awards” on Sunday, Dec. 4.

The awards will air at 11 p.m., followed by the “Yo!” special at midnight. The special will feature the artists behind three hip-hop classics: A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario,” Geto Boys’ “My Mind’s Playing Tricks on Me,” and Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day.” (“Good Day” just happens to mention “Yo! MTV Raps” by name.)

The special will feature former hosts Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Dr. Dre, and hip-hop stars from the past and present. They include A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, Geto Boys’ Scarface, and Ice Cube, in addition to well Wiz Khalifa, DJ Khaled, Questlove, Busta Rhymes, Mac Miller, Machine Gun Kelly, Young Jeezy, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife, Fat Joe, Common, Mike Epps, Ice T, Meek Mill, Tyga, and Naughty By Nature.

DJ Premier will remix the iconic “Yo! MTV Raps” theme song for the special.

“It’s a great moment to be re-connected with Yo! and examine the music that had a role in introducing hip-hop to music lovers globally,” Ed Lover said. “By looking back at these classic songs in hip-hop it becomes clear that hip-hop would inevitably transcend distance and generations.”

“In this Classic Cuts special, people will go back to a seminal time in hip-hop which many have called the ‘Golden Era’ – resulting in records that are as meaningful today as they were back then,” said Fab 5 Freddy, the original host of the show. “In order to appreciate how far hip-hop has come, you have to pay respect to the songs and artists that helped catapult the genre from a small community of fans to world domination.”

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