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DJ Premier vs Pete Rock May 2nd @ Tokyo, Japan

Too bad Pete Rock and DJ Premier come separated to Belgium, have a dope evening Tokyo! One of the cities I’m dying to see. But wassup with close at 22pm? Here we start at 22pm, I once saw Premo beginning at 3am.

Live From HeadQCourterz (03/12/2010)

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DJ Premier – Live From HeadQCourterz (03/12/2010)

Filled in by DJ JS-1.

Tracklist:

  1. DJ JS-1 – No Bullshit (Feat. KRS-One)
  2. Agallah – Biggie Brooklyn Freestyle (I Wanna Rock Beat)
  3. Largo Pro – The Highst Beat
  4. Reflection Eternal – In This World
  5. Rakaa Iriscience – Delilah
  6. Freeway & Jake One – Sho’ Nuff
  7. Evidence – Hard Hit
  8. Computa – Anti busta (Feat. Mr Cheeks)
  9. Inspectah Deck – The Champion
  10. Strike Team – Rebel Music (Feat. Pete Rock)
  11. Exile – Radio (Remix) (Feat. Torae & Ruste Juxx)
  12. Planet Asia & Gold Chain Military – Organic Food
  13. Joell Ortiz – Project Boy
  14. DJ JS-1 – Boom Slap (Feat. KRS-One & Rahzel)
  15. DJ JS-1 – Science (Feat. Jeru the Damaja)
  16. Ruste Juxx & Marco Polo – Nobody
  17. Rhymefest – RNQ (Real Nigga Quotes)
  18. Sadat X – X And Bill (Feat. Ill Bill)
  19. Jeru the Damaja – Drunken Master Freestyle (Feat. Rahzel)
  20. Nutso – My Hood (Feat. Royal Flush & Mic Geronimo)
  21. JoJo Pellegrino – Devastate
  22. DJ Concept & DJ Mickey Knox – Hardbody (Feat. Illa Ghee)
  23. Cold Heat – This one Here
  24. Brown Bag Allstars – The Agenda
  25. Fashawn – The Score (Feat. Planet Asia)
  26. Choclair – The Essence
  27. Smiley the Ghetto Child – I’m Legend
  28. Bekay – I Am (Feat. DJ Revolution)
  29. Roc Marciano – Snow
  30. Khaleel – Rappin’ Excercise (Feat. Panchi)
  31. Ill Bill & Crooked I – Murdered
  32. Rakim – Euphoria (Feat. Jadakiss & Styles P)
  33. Guru – Le Bien, Le Mal (Feat. MC Solaar)

Guests: Rahzel & Jeru the Damaja

Jeru the Damaja x Rahzel Freestyle

Last night we had Jeru the Damaja and Rahzel on LiveFromHQ. DJ JS-1 filled in for DJ Premier because he’s on an European tour with Blaq Poet, Nick Javas and Termanology. Term was originally on a tour with Statik Selektah and Saigon if I’m correct, but he couldn’t enter the UK after some problems, send back to Switzerland where they original came from. Luckily DJ Premier started his tour in Switzerland and Termanology could go with them and rocked the boat! Blaq Poet was also in Europe earlier touring with 12 Finger Dan. It was a dope show last night, good to hear Jeru again. There’s absolutely no beef between him and the Gang Starr Foundation, he’s all Gang Starr Foundation. Now he’s preparing an album with DJ JS-1, but no further details were given. Here’s a dope freestyle by Jeru the Damaja (who was tipsy) with beatboxing Rahzel, can it get any doper??

Jeru the Damaja – Freestyle with Rahzel

Heather B Returns With DJ Premier For Her New Album

DJ Premier will assist Heather B in ending an 8-year album drought by executive-producing her new LP, Open Bar.

Heather B’s last project was 2002’s Eternal Affairs. With production from Pete Rock and DJ Premier, the album met with positive reviews despite not charting on Billboard.

Since then, Heather diversified her portfolio with appearances in commercials, and running a successful business out of the New York metropolitan area.

Although Open Bar is just her third studio album, Heather B has been in the entertainment industry well over 10 years, receiving her first national exposure as a cast member of the original MTV Real World season in 1992.

In 1996, she partnered with Boogie Down Productions for her debut Takin’ Mine, which delivered two regional hits in “All Glocks Down” and “If Headz Only Knew.”

She cites these experiences as the reason her current music is more confident, and immune to the pressures of confirming to today’s image-driven expectations of female rappers.

“When I first came out, I felt like I had to do it and now I want to do it because I’m grown and my music is coming from a sincere and confident place,” Heather explained to AllHipHop.com. “I’m not concerned with any trends or industry misconceptions; I want to put out some good music.”

While Premier is handling the new project’s direction, two other confirmed producers are Pete Rock and Kenny Parker.

The latter is behind on the boards on Open Bar’s lead single “The Game Don’t Stop,” which Heather uses to make a statement on the importance of creative, well-executed Hip-Hop.

“’The Game Don’t Stop’ answers all those questions that people have asked me and what I’ve questioned myself. What the end result of it all is, it doesn’t matter, Quality matters,” she declared.

Open Bar is tentatively scheduled for a May release. The new single is available now on iTunes.

Source: AllHipHop.com

Finally some good news!!

Nick Javas Paying Homage To The Notorious B.I.G.


Dope!! Nick Javas from Year Round Records, his first single coming soon…

The Man Who Calls Himself A Superproducer…

…Written by gimantalon:

Many people asked me to actually do this and I come clean, I didn’t really enjoy writing this. However, the truth has to be written to the public. The people who wrote me asked for my help. About the whole Solar Guru situation… We should have known people. We should have known this would come this far. Superproducer Solar is a manipulator of the highest degree and loves to control people. I really hate making a post on DJ Premier Blog about Solar, I even promised last year not to mention Guru ever again (because I saw no ending with that Solar dude).

A lot of people who worked with Guru and Solar came forward to me with their stories about 7Grand Records and Solar in this intense week. Mostly they write about how heartbreaking it is to hear that their former partner Guru had a heart attack and that Solar is with him making it hard for his family, they are very concerned. The reason they wrote the truth in countless letters is because they want Guru away from Solar with the help of the public (like Justin asked in his video). It was no fun for them writing about Guru’s evil friend, especially when Guru was one of the friendliest people they ever met, and were blessed to work with. To the few persons Guru had contact with, he was always very kind. He was a master at cheering someone up. If you saw Guru you wouldn’t think he was sad, he wouldn’t let you see it someone wrote me. He didn’t want to make someone sad because of him. That’s maybe the reason Solar had so much control on Guru. Guru’s first concern wasn’t himself, but the persons next to him. I hope you respect why they want to stay anonymous. They don’t want to harm the person, Guru, that were always good to them. Yet, what Solar puts Guru trough is unacceptable and makes people angry for a damn good reason. No one wants to see a good person suffer and taken advantage of. So I warn all of you, the next thing I’m about to write is something like tmz.com or allhiphop.com, you are not forced to read it. Keep Guru in the back of your mind, because he needs our support. Even so, here are some facts about the person who is now with Guru:

-Solar claims to be a member of the Nation of Gods and Earths. He consider himself as a God. 7Grand logo is inspired from the religions logo.

-Solar claims to have saved Guru from alcohol abuse.

-Solar and Guru likes to believe the media that they were friends before they worked together. Which isn’t completely true. Guru was introduced to Solar by Black Jesus who worked on projects with Guru. Solar just started producing and when he came into the picture he disrupted and poisoned his mind against Black Jesus and his crew.

-Solar always told Guru that his old friends hate him and that he is nobody without him. Guru is scared of that and don’t want to end up alone in his mid 40s. Solar isn’t that stupid, if Guru and DJ Premier make music again he can say bye bye.

-Every journalist that would like to take an interview with Guru is firstly asked not to question about Gang Starr or DJ Premier. Solar always has to sit next to Guru (even with a phone interview). If you watch some interviews of them you can see how Solar likes to interrupt Guru to say it better. I once heard an interview when he got mad (because of DJ Premier) and asked the interviewer ‘what the deal is’. Guru didn’t move a bit.

-Solar likes to write mails in Guru’s name to the 7Grand artists. You can tell the difference between Guru and Solar. Guru always wrote like a poet, Solar like a thug.

-Guru is allowed to sign autographs for a certain amount of time, after which Solar yells ‘that’s enough’, grabs his arm and drags him off.

-When a girl shows interest in Guru she firstly needs to be approved by Solar, which led Guru with no girls most of the times. When you ask him about it, Guru always replies: ‘Solar is helping me to be disciplined, I need that’.

–It has been reported that Solar harbours intense jealousy for the Jazzmatazz trumpet soloist Brownman. I received emails from promoters stating that they’ve seen Solar pack Brownman into a cab and send him back to the hotel early when audiences are freaking out over his trumpet playing. One promoter describes the reaction to Brownman as “so much cheering you couldn’t hear Guru talk, while Solar’s reception was luke-warm at best”. This infuriates Solar and he has used lies such as “we have an early flight” as excuses to shuttle the trumpet player away from the crowd. Eventually Solar made Guru stop introducing the band members entirely. The superproducer’s own introduction would go on for minutes, while the all-star band – including the well known DJ DooWop – were treated like nobody’s. Other sources have reported that Solar has had many conflicts with Brownman, stemming from Solar’s insecurities over Brownman’s ability to engage an audience as a soloist – while he himself has no business on stage next to Guru. Why is the producer of the show on stage in the first place?

-Solar feeds on the career of Guru , of which he has total control over. While playing in Norway a few years ago, he demanded weird stuff and complained that he had not received enough smoked salmon and champagne. Most of the people didn’t even know who he was.

-It’s not like anyone didn’t know about this, a lot of this has been said before. Here you have a picture of a fan who wanted to own Solar. Here you have other blogs besides mine who spoke about it, here‘s another one. This funny picture I posted on my blog spread like wild fire one year ago, now it’s off course not funny anymore. Actually I’ve known several journalists who wrote bad things when they did an interview with Guru and Solar.

-Solar was thinking about a new Gang Starr album, probably without DJ premier. Guru told us last year it’s possible there would be a new Gang Starr album. If there would be one, it will be released on 7Grand Records. Solar made him believe only he is Gang Starr. After that statement an official twitter opened @GangStarr_NY that was promoted through Guru’s offic
ial twitter, which is in control of Solar.

-Guru is not the only one that Solar is controlling and brainwashing. The keyboard player of the Jazzmatazz band, Dave Scott, was even worse terrorized. Dave literally runs to pack up Solar’s food when Solar commands him to everywhere he demands. Dave does all kind of things for Solar. Like giving his clothes and making up a room with the things solar wants. He even does Solar’s laundry on tour often. He is terrified to lose his job because he has nothing else. When I posted that Jazzmatazz band left 7grand in January (due to Solar), he wrote eight comments in three hours begging me to add that he hasn’t quit. That’s how terrified he is from Solar, who runs things via abuse and terror. Also I hope he will be set free from Solar and go his own path.

-Solar blocks every source of information to Guru because he knows his old friends still love him.

-Solar and his wife signed a health care proxy as brother and sister of Guru. Guru’s room is protected with a guest list and a black list. Solar told the hospital that there were pictures taken from Guru without permission, which was not true.

-Solar can’t be mistaken with MC Solaar, the legendary MC from France who Guru worked with in 1993. When Guru first toured with Solar (I think 2005), I made this mistake. Then I saw some other lame dude, never knew who he was at the moment, but he wasn’t MC Solaar.

There is more that should better kept private, but I think you get the picture. I think Guru is still at an instable condition, so I would like everybody to still pray until he’s better. When he is, he will have a difficult job to do. Considering him not wanting to harm anyone. Actions, however, need to be taken, but first we need to see if Guru is at a stable condition. Pray for him, anyone who met him in person knows he deserves it.

It’s possible the future tells us he doesn’t want to reunite with DJ Premier at any price, if so then I’m afraid we shall need to accept this. We need to accept any decision by Guru. And lastly, this has nothing to do with DJ Premier you gossip magazines. And once again, I would like to thank the hip hop community to stand together to support Guru. Gang Starr 4 Ever!!

(Note: Solar’s official twitter is now redesigned by Yo! Promotions, check it out now!! Y’all should be ashamed, fo real.)

My 2 cents…

Behind The Scene on Project Boy

Guru’s Nephew Justin Updates Us With New A Video



Full recovery? Get the fuck outta here! His wife? It even got me mad in front of my desk… Pray. Safe Guru, safe Hip Hop!

Solar Calls The Cipha Sounds on Hot 97


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Solar Calls The Cipha Sounds on Hot 97

I have no words for this, he can’t say he isn’t in a coma, but he can say he isn’t in a med induced coma? No comment, but Bumpy Knuckles has some:
I’ll keep you updated, a lot of people seems to be interested. Hold your head up Guru, Gang Starr 4 Ever! Lol @ the Twitter thing.

Live From HeadQCourterz Show (03/05/2010)

After many request over this one year from the fans (specially from Europe) asking where they can listen to DJ Premier’s show Live From HeadQCourterz broadcasted at Sirius Satellite Radio. It was always the same answer, sign up at Sirius and listen from 4am to 6am (for most of the Europeans). But who the hell does that? And we all know the fanbase in Europe is huge. And now that I got some more free time after busy January I’m going to try this new thing. Lets go… Enjoy! DJ Premier Blog!

UPDATE: Those who want to listen in their car, download here.