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Hannibal Stax – The Honorable Mixtape (Hosted by DJ Premier)

H. Stax aka Hannibal Stax from the Gang Starr Foundation group F.A.B.I.D. is back!! He’s currently working on a full collabo album “Seize The Day” (on Soulspazm Records) with one of the best producers around now Marco Polo. To get y’all ready here’s his new free mixtape, hosted by DJ Premier & mixed by PF Cuttin, enjoy!

Related: Hannibal Stax – Str8 Smashin’ (Prod. by Marco Polo) CDQ

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Pro Era! R.I.P. Capital STEEZ!

DJ Premier’s Top 20 Albums of 2012

Like every year DJ Premier presents to you his top 20 albums of a year, also in 2011 he did that. There’s always a big commotion around it but check out Premos top 20 of 2012:

Rank:

20. Torae – Off The Record
19. Saigon – Greatest Story Never Told Pt. 2: Breads And Circuses
18. Slaughterhouse – Welcome To Our House
17. Skyzoo – A Dream Deferred
16. Masta Ace & MF DOOM – MA_DOOM: Son Of Yvonne
15. Roc Marciano – Reloaded
14. 9th Wonder & Buckshot – The Solution
13. Public Enemy – Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp
12. Vinnie Paz – Gods Of The Serengeti
11. Lil Fame & Termanology – Fizzyology

10. Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t
09. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city
08. Action Bronson & Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers
07. 9th Wonder & Murs – The Final Adventure
06. Sean Price – Mic Tyson
05. Wu-Block – Wu-Block
04. Showbiz & A.G. – Mugshot Music (Preloaded)
03. Nas – Life Is Good
02. DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles – Kolexxxion
01. O.C. & Apollo Brown – Trophies

Honorable Mentioning: Mayhem Lauren “Mandatory Brunch Meetings”, Fresh Vetz “The Tape Effect”, Killer Mike “R.A.P. Music”, Nutso “Behind These Bars”, Craig G. “Ramblings Of An Angry Old Man”, Big Shug “I.M.4Eva”, La Coka Nostra “Masters Of The Dark Arts”, Ice Water (aka WOADAH) “Holy Water”, Bishop Lamont “The Layover”, 1982 “2012”, Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson “Dice Game”, Large Professor “Professor @ Large”.

Voila.

Closure Note From DJ Premier:

Just in case y’all forgot, I base my list on:

1) Beats selection
2) Lyrics and content that make sense
3) Flows and wordplay and your voice
4) I don’t care how many records you sold and how much your record was played on commercial radio, I live hip hop culture and I respect my pioneers that allowed me to do hip hop as a career
5) Concepts and overall body of making a full LP including the sequence of how your LP flows is so important when I pop it in my sound system

I still judge listening to music on either a boom box or driving in my ride, no iPods and shit. I stick to tradition of how hip hop was played when it made an impact on my life.

As I say every year, if you don’t like my list, fuck it make your own!

One note I will make: I meant to list the Game’s “Jesus Piece” in my list and it was an oversight so I won’t change this list because of my mistake. I still wanted to make a note of it being that I liked his album and I’m still bumpin it in the ride.

Let the hate begin…

“Be Glad or Be Mad” -DJ Premier

DJ Premier’s Top 25 of 2011
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DJ Premier’s Top 20 of 2009

Live From HeadQCourterz (12/28/2012) (70s & 80s Special Mix)

DJ Premier Names Joey Bada$$ as 2012’s Hottest Rapper

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Blunted Astronaut Records x DJ Premier Blog Vinyl Giveaway

!! THE CONTEST IS OVER !!

We picked the 3 winners of the contest out of the almost 100 participants!! These are the winners of our late Christmas gift:

1) bonnylarmes@wp.pl
2) n-jin@aon.at
3) davidmc_skate@hotmail.com

Those three will receive a mail plus package at home very soon, congrats! It was fun to do this giveaway, on to the next one 😀

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We all love vinyl, don’t we? This time I’m going to promote some shit where I’m from (the author of this fanblog)… Europe! To be more exact, this uprising producer -whose name is MPadrums- is from the Spanish island Tenerife (Santa Cruz). He linked up with the UK label Blunted Astronaut Records for his first beat tape releasing on 7″. We from DJ Premier Blog give away 3 copies of this 7″, how? Simple, but before you enter, some more information about this record:

This E.P. is part of the ‘Blunted Beats’ international series – a set of short recordings being released with the aim of helping to shine light on some of the most talented, up-and-coming Hip Hop producers from across Europe. In this volume, we present to you MPadrums from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. Other countries covered in this series include Sweden, Poland, and The Netherlands. 300 copies pressed. Worldwide shipping!

We are giving away 3 copies, you want to win? To win one of these copies you just have to send a mail to bluntedbeats@hush.com with your name and address. Deadline: 26th of December 2012. The winners will also be announced next week and who knows you’ll get a late Christmas present!

Big thanks to MPadrums (You will get there bro!) and Blunted Astronaut Records! Of course you can also buy the 7″ and many more music at their shop. And for more info about MPadrums you can check out his SoundCloud. Support!!

Live From HeadQCourterz (12/14/2012)

Hannibal Stax – Str8 Smashin’ (Prod. by Marco Polo) CDQ

H. Stax aka Hannibal Stax from the Gang Starr Foundation group F.A.B.I.D. is back yo!! He’s currently working on a full collabo album “Seize The Day” (on Soulspazm Records) with one of the best producers around now Marco Polo. To get y’all ready they are going to release a mixtape “The Honorable” very very soon that is hosted by DJ Premier and mixed by PF Cuttin (like the old days!). This is the first -but not the last on this blog- leak:

Hannibal Stax – Str8 Smashin’ (Prod. by Marco Polo)

Related: H. Stax (of F.A.B.I.D.) – Get It In (Mixtape Rip) [FULL]

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