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DJ Premier Playing Not Once, but Twice at this Belgian Festival this Summer

Great news for the Premo fans outta Belgium… At Dour Festival he’s not playing once, but twice! Ow yeah, he’s coming with Royce da 5’9″ to represent PRhyme and two days later you can catch him on main stage with his live band The BADDER.

Dour Festival starts the 13th of July and ends 4 days later. More artists who are joining are Wiz Khalifa, Mobb Deep, Kirk Knight, Ta-Ku, … Combi tickets with camping goes from €150.

www.dourfestival.eu

Related: NAS – ILLMATIC TOUR ’14 FULL LIVE @ DOUR, BELGIUM

MC Eiht’s album “Which Way Is West” reportedly finished

Finally! Is that a snippet from the premo track? 😉

Related: this old flyer:

Slice of Spice about to release this limited 10inch DJ Premier remix and more

Ow yes, Slice of Spice still doing there best at what they do best: releasing dope hip hop on wax! This time they will be pressing up Lord Finesse’s Keep The Crowd Listening DJ Premier remix on a 10inch, it’s limited available on the Slice of Spice store. Member of Slice of Spice will have the first chance to lay there hand on this, then it will be available for the big audience. But if this isn’t enough, they bringing out more Lord Finesse on wax. Here’s a list of what they are pressing up in May:

Lord Finesse’s Slave To My Soundwave (Test Press)
Lord Finesse’s Keep The Crowd (Test Pressing)
Lord Finesse’s Midas Era A Cappellas (Test Pressing)

And to make it complete, you can buy a golden bundle for $79.98.

Also the new D.I.T.C. album with a new DJ Premier production on it is available at the store! Support!

Related: D.I.T.C. – CONNECT 3 (FEAT. DIAMOND D, A.G. AND O.C.) (RADIO RIP)

DJ Premier performing in Istanbul tomorrow!

Wow, this is the first time I know Premo is performing in the big city of Istanbul! So people from Turkey, this is your chance!!

Red Bull BC One Turkey Cypher 2016

Date: March 27, 2016
Location: KüçükÇiftlik Park Maçka, Istanbul, Turkey
Time: 16:00-23:00

Tickets here.

DJ Premier Turns 50 Today!

OUR LEGEND TURNS 50 TODAY, CONGRATS FROM THE WHOLE TEAM! GOD BLESS HIM!

Here you have an interview with him from yesterday in Dubai where he’s performing later this week…

First Division “This Iz Tha Time” Getting A 12″ Single Release

This deserves definitely a blog post!! They all say vinyl sells are again rising and rising but that’s for older LP’s who gets a reissue or some shit but it’s a fact that singles for new albums aren’t pressed on vinyl anymore, only iTunes and shit. So we lost a lot of DJ Premier instrumentals on wax these years… But the good folks of Slice of Spice are now giving First Division “This Iz Tha Time” a wax release, because of the big costs to do this, this one is limited and exclusive if you buy the collectors edition of their full LP release “Overworked & Underpaid”. The single also features a non album cut “Watch Out” produced by Marco Polo! Sign up here if you want to be on the list for the collectors edition as it’s getting released soon…

Also folks, the new Papoose collabo with DJ Premier for NBA is leaked, also The Game collaboration “The Documentary 2”. But you’ll have to search them yourself as I can’t “leak” shit anymore. Peace!

Related: FIRST DIVISION – THIS IZ THA TIME (MUSIC VIDEO)

“Last Session @ 320” Will Feature Dr Dre, Ed Sheeran, Christina Aguilera, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Black Moon and more

Here’s some interesting interview with DJ Premier done by some good folks in France! And we have a little update on the D&D Documentary Project, listen.

Related: DJ PREMIER ANNOUNCES HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM, LAST SESSION @ 320

REDEFINITION RECORDS X DJ PREMIER BLOG VINYL GIVEAWAY

Yes, another giveaway people!! It’s been a long time since the last time we did one. But now we have the great opportunity to team up again with our friends from Redefinition Records. This time we give you a full LP with bonus 7″, look:

Another Time, DJ EFN’s first all original studio album is an ode to his mixtape past. Featuring production from the likes of DJ Premier, Buckwild and more – EFN assembles an impressive cast of legendary pioneers, buzz-worthy new school spitters and new comers on the rise.

“Miami’s Mixtape King” DJ EFN and his company Crazy Hood Productions has been a pillar in Miami for the better part of twenty years. A fan of the mixtapes emanating from New York City, DJ EFN began producing mixtapes of his own because no one else in Miami was doing so. “There was no consistent mixtape DJ in Miami, no one who ever really played the music from Miami,” he said in an interview with Julia Beverly of Ozone magazine. “Everybody listened to DJ Clue or Tony Touch. It was good music, but I didn’t want to hear shouts to Brooklyn or the Bronx. I wanted to shout out Miami and help to put on the local cats.”

EFN’s first Crazy Hood mixtape was issued in 1993. During the next two decades he produced 42 volumes, featuring not only Miami- based artists, but national stars. E’s particular mission has always been to represent a strain of gritty local hip-hop music that has more in common with the Boom-Bap sound than with the party music for which Miami is best known.
Another Time features Royce the 5 9, Inspectah Deck, Ras Kass, Scarface, Masta Ace, Your Old Droog, David Banner, Kurupt, Sean Price, Smif N Wessun, Black Milk, Talib Kweli, Redman, Crooked I, MC Eight, Stalley, Chris Rivers (Big Pun’s son), Keith Murray, Juvenile, Troy Ave, Fashawn, O.C., Reks, Dead Prez, Cormega, Defari, Blu, MOP, Guilty Simpson, King Tee, original artwork by Skam2? (Tribe Called Quest) and more.

Now… We are giving away one copy of this beautiful silver double lp plus the bonus 7″ with 2 K-Def remixes of DJ EFN’s track. All you have to do is send a mail with the subject “Redef Contest” and your address to accountbollegijs@gmail.com

Winners will be announced 25th of September. Good luck!

Thanks to Redef Records for this opportunity and DJ EFN for making such a dope record. You can buy more real hip hop (and of course this record) like Damu the Fudgemunk, K-Def, Blu, El Da Sensei, … at Redef Records web shop.

Related: DJ EFN – WHO’S CRAZY? (FEAT. TROY AVE, SCARFACE, STALLEY & DJ PREMIER)

After ‘Compton’ Success, DJ Premier Eyes Gang Starr Biopic


The overwhelming success of N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton may cause Hollywood execs to start digging around for more hip-hop backstories to plunder. If veteran producer DJ Premier, who worked with Dr. Dre on the latter’s “Animals” track for new album Compton, has his way, his former group Gang Starr will be next on the slate for a biopic.

The producer has begun working with the sister of Keith “Guru” Elam, the rapper who worked with Premier on six albums before passing away in 2010, to turn his vision into reality, but stresses that authenticity trumps speed. “I told her I need some time; there’s no rush,” Premier tells Rolling Stone. “It took over 20 years to do N.W.A and Dre told me, ‘I wanted to do it because I didn’t want [anyone] to mess with what N.W.A stood for in the movie and not have it weaken our legacy,’ and it’s the same thing with Gang Starr.”

While Straight Outta Compton rankled some critics by omitting notable parts of the group’s career — specifically Dr. Dre’s vicious assault against hip-hop journalist Dee Barnes — the film’s verisimilitude dwarfed that of comparable biopics.

It’s a trait Premier hopes to emulate. “All the crazy stuff we did that a lot of people don’t know about has to be included in order for it to be authentic,” Premier says. “I lived with Guru — I knew him well — and know the stuff he really went through. All the wild groupie parties; all the shootings, everything. We went through crazy, crazy shit, and in order for it be as authentic as Straight Outta Compton, it has to be pretty much like that. We went through a wild, wild journey.”

O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Ice Cube’s son, deftly plays his father in the movie. And while Premier won’t have any of his family enter Hollywood, he expects the same level of accuracy.

“Look how accurate the actors were for Compton. I’d want our movie to be the same exact way,” Premier says. “Like, Gravy played Biggie Smalls very well in Notorious. I want something like that, where the demeanor, the voices, the actions are all dead on. Ice Cube’s son had to go through the wringer of being a professional thing. I want it be as authentic as possible… I want to cover everything that really went down with us; we’d have to go through our own career. I’d be as hands-on as Dre.”

Source: Rollingstone.com

The DJ Premier & Dr. Dre Collaboration Has Been Confirmed!

A lot of my friends have helped worked & contributed on this album & I'm very excited for them because they all worked hard. I've been very blessed to have meet so many good & talented people in this crazy music business, including my heroes. Then something happened. 2 weeks ago, I finally get to meet the man himself. At the studio. It's crazy because I have a lot of friends that worked with the Doctor but I've never met in person. It was surreal. It was really cool to talk to him about DJing & music. It was very kind of him to let me listen to some of the final versions of this upcoming album. And what was even very crazy, is that I got to witness the official producer collabo between the Good Doctor & @djpremier for a song that features the talented @anderson_.paak. Now this is where the Hip Hop Geek in me gets giddy. Not that it's an important factor to the song, but I was able to help Preemo find some phrases to a scratch hook he was getting ready to lay down. Look at my recent old IG pic with me, Preemo & @xzibit to give you an idea. I wish I could've gotten a picture with the Good Doctor but I didn't want to interrupt their workflow & overstep my welcome. Even if I never get to meet him again or ever work with him at all, I'm good because I was able to witness history in person & was able to check off a Hip Hop bucket list. And oh yeah, the album is bananas! Thank you to @therealphd @focus3dotz @xzibit for the opportunity as well as congratulations to them & @djkhalil @fredwreckla @therealcold187um @laylawmusic @ianschwartzman & many others. And thank you to the man himself @drdre. Whether people realize it or not, you're about to smack people over their heads. They're might be naysayers but I think you really don't care because you're having so much fun. Congratulations & welcome back. #Compton #August7th #Aftermath #StraightOuttaCompton #NWA #WestCoast #HipHop

Een foto die is geplaatst door rhettmatic (@rhettmatic) op

Tracklist from the album “Compton: A Soundtrack By Dr. Dre”:

01. Intro f. Dr. Dre
02. Talk About It f. King Mez & Justus
03. Genocide f. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay
04. It’s All On Me f. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid
05. All In a Day’s Work f. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius
06. Darkside/Gone f. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar
07. Loose Cannons f. Xzibit & COLD 187um
08. Issues f. Ice Cube & Anderson Paak
09. Deep Water f. Kendrick Lamar & Justus
10. One Shot One Kill f. Snoop Dogg & Jon Connor
11. Just Another Day f. Asia Bryant & The Game
12. For the Love of Money f. Jill Scott & Jon Connor
13. Satisfiction f. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez
14. Animals f. Anderson Paak
15. Medicine Man f. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak
16. Talking To My Diary f. Dr. Dre

Pre-orders are available on iTunes!