NEW TRACK: KRS-One – 5% (Feat. Grand Puba) (Radio Rip)
Whoohaa, the first track of KRS-One collabo album with DJ Premier “Return of the Boom-Bip”. It always feels good to hear KRS-One over a new Premo beat. Especially when it features the legendary Grand Puba. Go cop that Year Round Records compilation album “Get Used To Us”. Out early next month, 100% Premier supported! Keep on visiting this blog for more info on that… Eargasm:
Ow yeah, Pete Rock once rhymed over this beat.
“Premier Changed My Life” Gig with Royce da 5’9″ in Amsterdam Dec 6th
Tickets here.
DJ Premier European Tour next month is official happening! Here’s the flyer for the fly ass city Skopje:
NEW TRACK: Wais P – You See It (Radio Rip)
Member Wais P from Da Ranjahz got the change to spit on his second DJ Premier beat of his career. This time for his most anticipated sole debut album on Coalmine Records. As you see, I’m a good friend of them. Big shout out to Matt Diamond!! Watch out people, nothing but dope shit coming from their corner. I guess the CDQ will be an exclusive here later on. Now check out the radio rip (which is ironic, cauz the quality is too good for radio lol), WAIS P THE PIMP on a rejected Rakim beat when he was suppose to do that album on Dr Dre’s label:
EDIT: New link, CDQ coming in december. And Wais P new album not via Coalmine Records.
GOOD Weekends! Sample god Premier does it again! Next one: KRS-One – 5% (Feat. Grand Puba) in 12 more hours…
NEW TRACK: Bumpy Knuckles – The Gang Starr Bus (Radio Rip)
This is sick… Bumpy Knuckles takes us back on a history ride when Gang Starr was touring. In fact, the beat that your hear is an old Gang Starr leftover. From his upcoming DJ Premier collabo album “The Kolexion” where he takes old Premo beats and rip them apart for your ear pleasure, enjoy:
It’s GOOD weekends on DJPremierBlog.com lol, Premo was playing all these exclusives last night… I’m going to release two more in the next 24 hours…next one in about 12 hours sharp… Monday the full show like you used to have…
Related: Bumpy Knuckles – Animalistic (Prod. by Statik Selektah) (Radio Rip)
DJ Premier Reveals Guest For Joint Pete Rock Album
“Friendly competition” will be the buzz phrase for DJ Premier and Pete Rock, now that two legends have begun work on their collaboration album.
The 12 song album will be split evenly. Each producer plans to keep their list of emcees secret. Premier would have started sooner, but had to make final adjustments for the December release of his Year Round Records compilation Get Used To Us.
“The Pete Rock project, we just started that last week. To finish the compilation album I had to put that on the back burner,” Premier told Beats, Boxing & Mayhem. “I addressed that with the artists I got on there. Pete’s not supposed to tell me who he got, and I’m not supposed to say who I got. I got four already, I just need to get two more. We’re doing six songs each and then we’re ready to go.”
Recently, Premier allowed Pete Rock full access to his studio to work on the album. The intent was not completely due to good will; Premier admits he used the opportunity to eavesdrop on his friend’s work.
“Pete came to my studio and laid one of them with one of the artistes. I took sneak listen and the shit sounds hot. He doesn’t even know I heard it, but that’s what he gets for doing a session in my studio,” Premier said jokingly.
The competition may be tongue in cheek, but DJ Premier also realizes their album will break new ground. Never before have two consensus all-time great Hip-Hop producers collaborated on a full LP in this format. Although he knows their names will ensure fan and media attention, Premier is adamant that this won’t be a project where they coast on past laurels.
“It is a competition, but a fun one of course. The lineup I got is Illmatic! People are going to go crazy on this shit,” he explained. “I’m going to be done with that hopefully by the end of December. We feel that people are going to buy it just on the strength. So when you hear the artists that we got for the battle, it’s going to be so much fun. It’s rare artists in the industry where everyone is going to be like ‘oh shit, how’d you get with him?’ I have to come up with two more.”
Premier is understandably secretive on letting too much information out this early. But when pressed, the surviving Gang Starr member was willing to verify one of his recruited emcees.
“I’ll tell you one that I got…The GZA,” Premier confirmed. “Me and GZA? Oh my God. That’s the only one I’ll tell you.”
DJ Premier’s Year Round Records will drop the compilation Get Used To Us on December 7. At press time, Pete Rock and DJ Premier’s album title and release date are still pending.
On a side note, get ready to hear 3 new Premo beats this weekend here… Yes, three.
Behind the Scenes of “Salute The DJ” Photoshoot with DJ Premier, Just Blaze & DJ Whoo Kid
D-Nice, DJ Premier, DJ Whoo Kid & Just Blaze
Just Blaze & DJ Premier
DJ Premier, Kiki & D-Nice
More info here.
DJ Premier Says Kanye Collaboration Never Materialized, Adds Last-Minute Scratches To “Mama’s Boyfriend”
Despite some major leaks and several varied track lists hitting the ‘net, Kanye West is sticking by the Nov. 22 release date for his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
With contributing producers Pete Rock and RZA adding their signature New York sound to the record, fans were also teased with talks of DJ Premier making the final cut. But Preemo says fans may have to wait a bit longer for the much-anticipated collaboration.
“I asked him about it at the BET Hip-Hop awards, and he said didn’t get a chance to do it,” DJ Premier told VIBE yesterday from Headquartez studio in midtown Manhattan. “But he said ‘I’m doing the album with Jay-Z, and I need two tracks for that.’ And he even kept hitting me to get more tracks for the album he’s about to drop. But right now, my priority is getting my artists up and running.”
Premier recalled Kanye paying him a personal visit to play new records from his forthcoming LP, a listening that led to Preemo creating a beat on the spot for the project. While that record sits on ice, the boom-bap master revealed that he did lend his trademarks scratches to a record “Mama’s Boyfriend,” an iTunes bonus from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
“[Kanye] actually hit me the day before he had to turn the album in to do some scratches on a song called ‘Mama’s [Boyfriend],'” Premier says of a record West debuted a capella this summer at the Facebook headquarters. “We just did it like five or six days ago… They sent me a private hard drive. I had to know certain passwords and go through all these steps to get the song. Kanye even sent me an email saying ‘destroy all the roughs I sent you.'”
Freestyle Professors – Subway Series (Feat. Blaq Poet) (Prod. by Branesparker)
Exclusive exclusive…Blaq Poet Gettin!! Today with the legendary indie crew Freestyle Professors. From DJ Toshi new mixtape Dig Down Deep Vol. 3 hosted by Blaq Poet. Produced by Branesparker. Check it out, underground NYC shit:
Download now DJ Toshi’s free mixtape with a lot of exclusives from Blaq Poet, Cappadonna, Shyheim, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Reks, Nutso, Killarmy, B.A.M, Freestyle Professors, BURNTmd, Shownuff of M.O.P. Final Outlaw, Smiley The Ghetto Child and more. Click here.
