DJ Premier’s new Classical remix for RE:GENERATION featuring Nas and the Berklee Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy:
DJ Premier & The Berklee Symphony – Regeneration (Feat. Nas) (Prod. by DJ Premier & The Berklee Symphony)
DJ Premier was given Classical and began his immersion into the genre with Bruce Adolphe, a former classical music professor at Juilliard. They met at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music not far from DJ Premier’s home in NY. After learning about classical music theory, the inspirations of some of the genre’s most profound composers and how traditional pieces are structured, DJ Premier went out and bought tons of classical symphonies on vinyl to mash up his own creation. We then took that mash-up and orchestrated it for sheet music. In the first step of the actual recording process, DJ Premier partnered with Stephen Webber, a professor and conductor at the Berklee College of Music. Steven taught Premier how to conduct and helped him in studio with the 58-piece Berklee Symphony Orchestra you hear on the track. Of all the takes, the one you hear is the “wild” version (which means they recorded it without the metronome in their headphones) DJ Premier conducted himself. Then DJ Premier brought that instrumental track back home to NY and Nas laid down his rhyme on top of it.
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excellent!….Hitchcock would have love this.
dope!
Damn, Premo and Nas together on a track again. Been waiting to hear this for quite some time now, dope!
good hear nas with premo again
..I fuck with ending though. The X-mas carol, and the drums over the symphony. Makes me want to grab some deers, get a sled, and get my Santa on, ho ho ho.
Amazing. And NaS ripped it.
Crazy record. It would be awesome to see someone try to replicate the Preem drums live in person. I don’t know if it could be done.
No words can describe this! This is just too dope! Finally, some appreciation for hip hop done through classical music! Nice Premo!
DOPE!!!!!! WE NEED DAT PREMO AND NAS ALBUM…ASAP!
No words can describe this! This is just too dope! Finally, some appreciation for hip hop done through classical music! Nice work Premo!
Preemo is just a masterful musical man. He can experiment with the best of them. From Punjabi MC to The Berklee Symphony. DJ Premier is like the Bernard Hermmann of hip hop. God bless him.
That’ s ill!!!! almost 40 years and Hip Hop music still grow, change, progress and give new ideas, new concepts & new directions. I’m proud of that!!!
Wow ! This is beyond dope!
you killed this my dude.
FUCK HIP HOP!
I LIKE TO LISTEN WHAT DJ PREMIER COOKS! SOUNDS CLASSY!
LEVEL!!!
Yo Preem!!! I saw this preview and I can not wait until it comes out! It looks sick!
wow i’m just blown away by how dope this is
I’m blown away by how yawn this is. I’m all for experimentation but this aint special at all
PLEASE GET WITH NAS & AZ AND PRODUCE THE WHOLE ALBUM!!!!! THAT SHIT WILL SELL LIKE HOTCAKES! I PROMISE! PUT THAT GOOD SHIT BACK ON THE MAP! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEEEEAAASSSEEE!