Time flies, say that again. And like last year I’m asking you guys to vote for the best DJ Premier beat of this year. Remember, I’m not asking you for the best track, but for the best hip-hop beat in your ears produced by Premo in 2k9. I know some of you will have it hard to decide, but think/sleep/dream about it and make your vote on time! You have 59 days and then we go into the year 2010. Too bad we didn’t had a Gang Starr reunion this year on their 20 years anniversary, but it’s for everybody recession! Now I’m feeling like an award show, maybe I can create something and send the award to New York! It’s a long list, but the nominees are:

1. Blaq Poet – I-Gettin
The first track on Blaq Poet’s “Tha Blaqprint”. Listen here.

2. Blaq Poet – Rap Addiction (Feat. Shabeeno & Lil’ Fame)
Track 14 on Blaq Poet’s “Tha Blaqprint”. Listen here.

3. Blaq Poet – Hate (Feat. N.O.R.E.)
Track 8 on Blaq Poet’s “Tha Blaqprint”. Listen here.

4. Capone-N-Noreaga – Grand Royal
Track 6 on Capone-N-Noreaga’s “Channel 10”. Listen here.

5. Blaq Poet – Never Goodbye
Track 15 on Blaq Poet’s “Tha Blaqprint”. Listen here.

6. Cormega – Make It Clear
Track 7 on Cormega’s “Born And Raised”. Listen here.

7. M.O.P. – What I Wanna B (Feat. Rell)
Track 3 on M.O.P.’s “Foundation”. Listen here.

8. Nick Javas – Opportunity Knocks
Ripped by me on DJ Premier’s LiveFromHQ. Listen here.

9. NYGz – Ready
Ripped by me on DJ Premier’s LiveFromHQ. Listen here.

10. Royce da 5’9″ – Hood Love (Feat. Bun B & Joell Ortiz)
Track 19 on Royce da 5’9″ “Street Hop”. Listen here.

11. Royce da 5’9″ – Something 2 Ride 2 (Feat. Phonte)
Track 4 on Royce da 5’9″ “Street Hop”. Listen here.

You heard everything, then make you vote! I’m started this poll earlier so we can get more votes so it can gives us a more accurate view on the standings. I really don’t have a clue who is going to have the most vote, but I do know some will run away with it! Thanks for reading and vote!! I wouldn’t do this if I it wasn’t of the visitors I can help!!!

btw, sorry if Bumpy Knuckles “Amerikkan Black Man” was the best beat of 2009 (here) (is his album coming in 2010?), or “Stretch Marks And Cigarette Burns”, had to cut… Actually funny, we saw “Tha Blaqprint” and “Street Hop”, how long did we wait on this? Damn…

I always wondered what the age of my visitors was, it’s a very useful number because then you could see whether older DJ Premier fans got their way to the internet or not. And I’m a happy human been with the results. I can proudly type that 68% of my visitors is older than me, now you know a little bit more about me you haters. The quote that age is just a number is onces proved. Second, I would like to thank everybody for their vote. The poll got a number of 1960 fucking votes, that’s wassup!! And to show my Excel skills I’ve made a graphic of the results:

<16y, 75
16-20y, 519
21-25y, 588
26-30y, 348
31-35y, 280
>35y, 150

I wonder who is the oldest visitor? Or the youngest?

A new European x DJ Premier collabo seems to see the light still this year. The Slovakian “Rick Ross” aka Rytmus (Slovakian for “Rhythm”) worked with DJ Premier for his upcoming album “Kral” (“King”). It’s general assumed they got in touch with each other when Premo did his last European Tour. The Slovakian MC isn’t a unknown person in own country, started his career in 1992, and started 9 years later with his successful group Kontrafakt. But I guess Slovakia was too small for him, because in 2003 he got a hit with the song “Dáva mi” (“It Gives Me”) that reached out to Poland and Germany followed by his second place in the Austrian beatbox championship battle where he won over young American talent Lee-Jay. Not afraid of international collaborations he already worked with Kool Savas and Nate Dogg. Rytmus official site says the album is coming next month!

Source: 90bpm.sk

Too bad we won’t understand a fuck about the lyrics, but still curious as fuck. Props to DJ Spank for the heads up!

Much has been talked about which producers should’ve produced on Jay-Z‘s latest album, The Blueprint 3 sequel. Although DJ Premier is absent in the liner notes, he did submit three beats that were left on the cutting room floor.

In the process of recording the album, according to Premier, Hov asked the legendary hip-hop producer to send a few tracks.

“I ran into him at [DJ] Cassidy’s birthday party,” Premier tells VIBE. “I hadn’t seen him in a while and he told me to send him three tracks. But I have a habit of not getting my tracks to [artists] at the time that they need them, so by the time I got them to Jay he was really in a rush to wrap up his album.”

With deadline approaching, the songs submitted simply didn’t fit Jay’s vision.

“It was all cool. There will be other days, and on top of that our history is made from other things we did,” Premier says, referencing others cuts he produced earlier in Jay’s career, including “D’Evils” and “Friend or Foe.”

“I gave him some heat,” he adds of the Blueprint 3 submissions. “But again it just didn’t fit the mold of what he was trying to bring out with this particular project. Maybe we’ll get gutter on the next one.”

Preemo is also looking to squeeze in work for Eminem‘s upcoming Relapse 2, for which Just Blaze is already a confirmed collaborator. Since he’s kicking off a DJ tour in Europe this week, however, time is once again working against him.

“[Eminem and I] spoke about doing some beats. My schedule is just dumb crazy but there’s no way I want to miss an Eminem album,” Premier says. “But still the first thing is to handle what’s the most necessary, which is to get my artists up and running [NYGz, Blaq Poet] and close to releasing their music and then if there’s a window to work with him I’ll definitely do it.”

The producer explains that it’s just about getting face time with Marshall. “I literally cook it up right there on the spot and then that way it really sounds like we match,” he says. “I tailor the track to the artist and I love Eminem as an MC so I already pretty much know what to make.” –Clover Hope

Source: Vibe.com