I didn’t made a post yet for my DJ Premier Trackology so here it is, it’s a page that I made long time before this blog (three years by now) where every single release by DJ Premier is listed. I can assure you it’s the most accurate list in the world and it’s all thanks to a buncha real Preem heads I can update and publish this. If you see what Chris produced in his life you know by then why I made this blog. Nobody can’t argue that, he is a pioneer to this game! Nuff Said!
DJ Premier Trackology
Unbelievable Remix Live ’94
Some rare footage of Biggie preforming the Unbelievable Remix live with Puffy (yes, that bastard) in ’94. The beat is produced by KRS-One originally for Mad Lion. This is a treasure!
Source: The Meaning of Dope
DJ Premier’s Top 20 of 2008
Like every year DJ Premier present to you his top 20 albums of a year on LiveFromHQ, also in 2009 he did that. Now it’s on this blog wich makes me happy offcourse, here is Premo’s top 20 of 2008 guys:
Rank:
20. Ill Bill – The Hour of Reprisal
19. 88-Keys – The Death of Adam
18. EPMD – We Mean Business
17. Craig G & Marley Marl – Operation Take Back Hip-Hop
16. Ice Cube – Raw Footage
15. Q-Tip – The Renaissance
14. Guilty Simpson – Ode to the Ghetto
13. Termanology – Politics as Usual
12. Big Shug – Otherside of the Game
11. Ludacris – Theater of the Mind
10. Heltah Skeltah – D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team)
09. Lil’ Wayne – Tha Carter III
08. The P Brothers – The Gas
07. eMC – The Show
06. Jake One – White Van Music
05. D.I.T.C. – The Movement
04. Scarface – Emeritus
03. Statik Selektah – Stick 2 the Script
02. Evidence – The Layover EP
01. DJ Revolution – King of the Decks
Artists that DJ Premier wanted in top 20, but didn’t made it but mentioned: GZA, Reks, Devin the Dude, Large Pro, Nas, Prodigy, Trick Trick, Young Maylay, The Game, Black Milk, Torae and Vast Aire.
“Be Glad or Be Mad” -DJ Premier
And next week it’s DJ Eclipse but DJ Premier will be on the phone on LiveFromHQ!
House of Repz Video
gimantalon, January 2nd 2009 |Most Anticipated Album; VOTE!!
New year, new vote. This vote will stay 100 days online and question you what the most anticipated album is for you that need to put out today. I only gave the name of the artists because the album names couldn’t fit on the page. With every artists there comes an album behind that was mentioned by DJ Premier once or more. Every artist is signed to Year Round Records or connected with it and should have an album out with mostly Premo produced songs. The albums that are missing are the Nas collabo because offcourse most people want that but ain’t going to happen because Nas was feeling “Nigger” needed to be released first. The “Amerikkkan Black Man” album by Bumpy Knuckles because the songs on that album by DJ Premier are mostly already leaked. And the real answer on the most anticipated album on Year Round Records is “A Man Of Few Words” no doubt, so that will be also excluded because Preem will only work on it when the time is right and the reason why he isn’t talking about it anymore is because he want that journalists stop asking for it I think, so lets not push him with a pole lol. It will come out in 2011. Now for the people who don’t know, lets get a little closer to the albums:
Rave Roulette “Untitled”
This is the most forgotten one. He is an artists from Brooklyn and one of NYGz homeboys. Also known as Rave, he is featured on NYGz pretape “Welcome To G-Dom” 6 times. He is currently unsigned and that’s why an album of him in the early future is most unbelievable. Only one time I heard he was going to do an album and that was in 2003, since then nothing was mentioned again. The rumour is that he’s in jail.
NYGz “Pros N Cons”
Ooow yeah, this is actually the first group on Year Round Records that had a full tape. Well, it was a pretape but still. With help from Traffic Entertainment Group they got lifted late 2007 and now getting ready for their real album. A fully lenght LP with songs on it nothing else produced then by DJ Premier! I know people are really waiting on this one, because DJ Premier is talking about it every 6 months I guess, it was going to be released in 2003/2004 but now it’s set to release in 2009. I say late 2009/2010. The good news is we have already a leaked song of the album, called “Policy” and we also got some tracktitles and featured artists. They were even trying to get Rise Against Machine on it!
Khaleel “My MC Name Is…”
Yes, that’s the title of the album some time ago. It could be changed by now, but their is a reason why we think the album could be released this year. He is actually released from prison some months ago and recorded tracks with DJ Premier! We first heard of him in 2004/2005 with a DJ Premier produced track that was called “You Can’t Tell Me Shit”, now the track title is “Hot Flames” and will be the first single of his upcoming debut album. Also on Year Round Records, he is unique because he’s from Texas and DJ Premier is also from Texas like we all know. Also this LP will be fully produced by DJ Premier and is set to release this summer!
Nick Javas “Destination Unknown”
Another unique artist! He is the first white dude signed on Year Round Records. Till this day we didn’t heard any solo track of him with DJ Premier, only a promo freestyle for LiveFromHQ. Went late in the game with DJ Premier. I think 2006. He is featured on one track of DJ Premier, but is named more then once. He also did studio sessions with DJ Premier for his debut album. Also this LP is set to release this year. Coming from New Jersey with style!
Boy Big “Untitled”
Just like Rave this album is only mentioned once in 2003 after he was featured on the Gang Starr LP “The Ownerz”. Last we heard of him was in 2006 on the DJ Premier produced track “Proper Dosage” by F.A.B.I.D. So we heard him two times on Preem tracks. The rumour is that he is in prison. This is the only RnB album in the list. He is from Kansas City.
Teflon “Contraband”
Maaaaan, Teflon people, Teflon!! It’s been so long time ago that we almost don’t remember how nice he sounded on a DJ Premier banger! First solo appearance with DJ Premier in 1999 with the 12inch single F-U, then 7 years later released another single with DJ Premier named “Showtime” and in that same year three leaked songs for “Contraband”. How does he managed not to release this album?! Don’t expect this to be dropped soon…
F.A.B.I.D. “Smash City”
Mike Rone and H. Stax are F.A.B.I.D. Released a single in 2006 and a mixtape with PF Cuttin’. After the single in 2006 they were getting ready to release their debut album that we never saw, knowing their are unreleased DJ Premier records on this world. H. Stax most known from his featuring on Gang Starr single “Same Team, No Games” is known for his hardcore rhymes that would make this group a succes. This is my vote!
Blaq Poet “The Best That Never Dun It”
Blaq Poet… my favourite artist on Year Round Records, one of the best in Hip Hop today! Killed many people in his rhymes before and just like NYGz getting ready now to release his first pretape called “Tha Blaqprint” that will be released 75% sure in february 2009! But when his first real solo album will drop isn’t known yet. They speak of the album since 2006 when the pretape “Rewind: Deja Screw” was released, back then the pretape for “The Best That Never Dun It”. So you know they like to drop pretapes, don’t bother me, as long they drop beats, not bombs (haha Dann). Blaq Poet counts now 7 leaked songs that didn’t been released yet, but in a week the first single for his pretape will be released. Expect this album in 2010 maybe.
Enough writing! Sorry if I say it again, but the reason I really do this is because of the positve comments I get of you guys. It really gives me energy to write things down. And some people should know I’m from Belgium where people speak Dutch, so sorry for the spelling mistakes. As long as you understand the message it’s good, if not, go outside and play. I know this isn’t the best vote, if you can choose between Rave Roulette that isn’t known at all or Blaq Poet that just rips a premo track one month ago so any requests for a better vote are ok. Big up to Year Round Records, Gordon Franklin and DJ Premier. Thanks for voting!
Best DJ Premier Beat in 2008
First of all, happy new year to everyone in the game! Lets see how much Obama can Change in his first year and specially, lets looking forward to new DJ Premier productions: Blaq Poet, NYGz, Nick Javas, Khaleel, Christina Aguilera, Q Da Kid, CNN, …
In the past 20 days the real Preem fans could vote for their best beat in 2008. It was a long time very very close for the second place, and till the last hour (!) it was too close for the fourth place with only one vote difference! And the winnar is with a total of more then it double of the runner up -no shit-:
“Grey Hairs” was far one of the best -how do i say this- slept on albums of this year, Statik Selektah has proven in 2008 that he is a stayer on production level. He really putting it down like hell! “Say Goodnight” is using again a soundtrack as sample, it’s from a French movie. DJ Premier and Reks are a perfect collabo, Reks is H-A-R-D. He won with 30%.
The Rank:
1. Reks – Say Goodnight (111, 30%)
2. Ludacris – MVP (53, 14%)
3. Fat Joe – That White (45, 12%)
4. Blaq Poet – Ain’t Nuttin’ Changed (42, 11%)
5. Big Shug – My Boston (41, 11%)
6. Termanology – How We Rock (31, 8%)
7. Ill Bill – Society is Brainwashed (23, 6%)
8. House of Repz – U Gotta Love Us (13, 3%)
Total of 359 votes.
I would like to thank everyone for their vote, thanks to you guys we have some image!! And stay tuned because this saturday DJ Premier will tell us his own top 20 best albums of 2008. Stay tuned…
D.I.T.C. – Where You At (Remix)
I noticed some people don’t know this track that used this sample so thank god I have the LP! Note that the rip is not mine! I don’t blame you if you don’t know the track because it’s only released official on vinyl. I’ve heard some story, but I really don’t know if it’s true so don’t shoot me. It looks right because I never saw an official print on vinyl of D.I.T.C.‘s selftitled debut album. Ok, now you can follow me; This track is from an exclusive vinyl album by D.I.T.C. called “The Official Version“, it was an album with only remixes on it of D.I.T.C. tracks. The reason why they released it (only on vinyl) was because their debut selftitled album “D.I.T.C.” was released in the same year but not on double vinyl, their were some legal issue’s because that album was already fully released on 12inch singles trough the years. So they couldn’t release it on vinyl anymore (very wierd), then D.I.T.C. say we will release a double vinyl with remixes so vinyl fans have something. And actually I didn’t found any official press on vinyl of D.I.T.C.’s debut album, only promo copies.
If someone got more info he can always contact me, because I don’t have any reliable source. Enjoy this hard ass remix done by DJ Premier with Big Punisher and Milano as guests:
DJ Premier Blog One Month Old!!
Yes, I started this blog one month ago! Tryin’ to reach the Preem fan and keep him up te date with a blog that is alive. This month I have send this blog probably one message a day if it isn’t more but we all know that won’t stay for ever. But I will still try though! First I wanted to know how DJ Premier felt about this blog, it’s no fun to start a fan blog if the artist is pitty about it. But yesterday I got the answer, he was impressed. Well, a reason more to stay kicking! Second I wanted to know if this blog got visitors, well, believe me, it has. I’m happy I reached eventually more people then I tought, I reached this month 4915 unique people.
The peronal reason I started this blog (that I always wanted to do) is because it was learning vacation here in Belgium, but my technique is learn non stop one/two weeks before it exam and then you will have the same result. So I had much spare time! That was the same period 3 years ago when I put the DJ Premier Trackology online.
Here are some statics about this first month:
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(289 people average/day)
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I would like to thank everybody who visit my site, may the lord bless your soul and don’t worry, this site will be alive. And also special thanks to the people who gave me encourage and props. I don’t forget that! And to Crackdaddy who still give me the free space on his domain! This year was a good Preem year, is it fair to say better then 2007? Don’t know… But my opion is that Preem isn’t felled of at all, every artist changed in a way and my ears still does it for him. Now lets go to 2009 and see what it takes, but I’m going to ask this one question to the lord: are we going to see Pros N Cons?
Peace…!
X-Mas Party in Houston
Out the other night with Styles and Premo. Incase you did’nt know, Premo is from Houston. So we all hang around the holidays. Just a quick bit of History……(i’ll try to keep this short and write the full details later) Dj Styles is some what responsible for Dj Premier being Dj Premier. The story goes like this. Carlos(Dj Styles) worked at a music store called Soundwaves in the 80’s . He got Premier a job there. Carlos sent Premier’s demo tape to Stu Fine at Wild Pitch around 88′. Stu Liked what he heard and told Carlos he wanted to bring Premier up to meet an mc from Boston that was on the label and that needed a dj. Now according to Carlos(Dj Styles), Premier really did’nt want to go but Carlos made it go down. Well we know now that mc was Guru and the rest is history.
Source: The Are
