First videos of yesterdays big interview by Peter Rosenberg:
DJ Premier 2k8; GO VOTE!!
In 21 days the year 2008 will be over, so I think it will be dope if y’all vote for the best Premo beat in 2008! We won’t see another Preem track I guess and if we do it will be released in 2009 for sure! Here is the list of the DJ Premier produced track that saw official in 2008 the daylight (excl. “Beats That Collected Dust”):
- Byata – Byata Is The Illest (Undefined)
- Big Shug – Like A Muhfuca (Otherside Of The Game)
- Big Shug – My Boston (Otherside Of The Game)
- Big Shug – Soundcheck (Otherside Of The Game)
- Big Shug – When I Strike (Otherside Of The Game)
- Fat Joe – That White (The Elephant In The Room)
- House of Repz – U Gotta Love Us (iTunes)
- Ill Bill – Society is Brainwashed (I’m A Goon VLS)
- Kool G Rap – On The Rise (Half A Klip)
- KRS-One – Criminal Minded ’08 (Smirnoff Signature Mix VLS)
- Laura Izibor – From My Hearts To Yours (DJ Premier Version) (Shine EP)
- Ludacris – MVP (Theater Of The Mind)
- Lord Finesse – I Keep The Crowd Listening (DJ Premier Remix)
- Mark Ronson – Just (DJ Premier’s JustRemixMix) (Just CDS)
- Maroon 5 – Secret (Premier 5 Remix) (Call and Response: The Remix Album)
- NYGz – Ya Dayz R #’d (NYGemix) (Welcome 2 G-Dom VLS)
- NYGz – Legendary Pt. 1 (Welcome 2 G-Dom VLS)
- Reks – Say Goodnight (Say Goodnight VLS)
- Termanology – How We Rock (Politics As Usual)
Here is the list of tracks that were leaked or played by Premier:
- Ali Vegas – Everyday Iz War (Internet)
- Blaq Poet – Ain’t Nuttin’ Changed (Internet)
- Blaq Poet – Too Strong (Radio)
- Blaq Poet – Get It In (Video)
- Cormega – Dirty Game (Remix) (Radio, same beat/other artists)
- NYGz – Policy (Radio)
- Royce da 5’9″ – I Gotta Shake This (Internet)
- Sunkiss – We Go Back (Internet)
Total: 27
The list of tracks for the vote contains eight tracks (!!) and there won’t be any rnb track in it, I’m sorry. Just to focus on tha real… hip hop. I’m actual curious to know the results so I thank you for wasting your time on this! May God bless you, peace to earth!!
And please don’t cry if your favourite track isn’t nominated (you can always skip simple things in life).
Another small thing, the Vivid track is NOT produced by DJ Premier! The scratches are done by DJ Cazz and seriously, ever saw a Preem track where he didn’t do the cuts?! Plus, you can hear in a sec that isn’t the man. And the RA The MC track “Anything You Liked” is a recycled beat, she jacked it from the “Beats That Collected Dust” LP… Sorry!
House of Repz have shot a video clip for their track “You Gotta Love This”, but where is the video for Royce‘s new single that is recorded months ago…
Premo Set by Peter Rosenberg
Last sunday played Peter Rosenberg a 2 hour set of Premier’s work to get us ready for his big show with DJ Premier tomorrow on hot 97. It’s promised to be big:
Rosenberg will sit down with DJ Premier for a rare one-on-one interview about the life and influences of one of the most creative men in the music industry and screen a never-before-seen video tribute to Premier, featuring special celebrity cameos.
And
Hot 97 DJ Quiz will spin and jazz hip-hop fusion band Igmar Thomas and The Cypher will also perform, paying tribute to Primo’s music.
Well, the tribute vid will prolly be a lot doper then the one I made back in the days:
Oh, almost forgot, the set can be found here.
Enjoy!
DJ Premier: “He Didn’t Just Sit There and Sulk”
“I used to see Arty perform — he reminded me of Method Man because he would just yank his hat off and be all over the place and his hair would be some crazy hair do,” Premo told SOHH. “He would act like he was having a tantrum on stage and he was just so animated, it went with his rhyme style. So I was always a fan of his.”
After allowing Arty’s rap associate Showbiz to rent out a room at his studio, the producer developed a close relationship with the crew and noticed Arty’s health conditions gradually worsen.
“I saw him when he was sick, and you know, we didn’t really get too deep into discussion, but I knew he wasn’t doing well” Premo explained.
Premo recalls the last meeting with Arty, just before going to Europe for the “Rock The Bells” tour last October. “I knew he was doing worse, I saw him right before I left, gave him a hug and, you know, told him I loved him and just kept it moving,” he added. “But I didn’t know it was so severe that he was pretty much brain dead for the last four days before he passed on December 4.”
Admitting the family felt the best decision was to pull the life support system, Premo revealed Arty’s desire to continue his legacy via hip-hop.
“One thing I like about what Arty and what J Dilla did was they put themselves to work,” he revealed. “They didn’t just sit there and sulk and cry, they went in there and worked in the studio.”
Helping carry on Arty’s memory, Premier expects to release some of the late rapper’s music in the future.
Source: SOHH
Will Pharell be on a Premier beat?
Well, they seems to get along very well. Sometimes floates a beat out of this.
DJ Premier & Ghetto Groovz Records
Here’s a post that brings us back in hip hop history to 1991 (before Jeru, Group Home, …), I’m warning tha real diggers not to loose their time on this because they already know this probably. Me personally didn’t grew in that time era… too bad, but I’m still interested like science on drugs. I grew up in the second Preem era (1999-2004).
Like we all know DJ Premier started in 1988 Gang Starr with Guru in Brooklyn, but their first LP didn’t s
old too much so Preem had to earn money for livin’. He more and more spread the word that he was selling beats for artists, the first real famous artist that called him was Ice-T (after they toured together), then followed by KRS-One. But meanwhile on the streets Ghetto Groovz Records talked to him.
Ghetto Groovz Records was a starting label of Jeff Murphy who had artists J-Rock, Beverly and MCM. They were from Upstate New York, where Jeff actually was a notorious drug dealer in Hudson Valley. So where shall I start? Ok, Jeff talked to DJ Premier for some beats because Preem needed money. DJ Premier said “Aight, b
ring me the artists”. The first artist that needed to get launched was J Rock, he was the only one who made a full album on the label called “Streetwize“. DJ Premier produced 4 songs on it (also Easy Mo Bee was on it), and he also produced a remix for the lead single “Neighborhood Drug Dealer“. Now more then 15 years later that lp is a real collectors item and has a value of around 100 euros. The lead single only is worth 75 euros… The video for “Neighborhood Drug Dealer” was also very rare and recently reupped on the internet. More about that video later!
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugla1KeW7ow
J Rock had a lot of talent, sadly he was the only one of the label who could release a full album. MCM could only release one single and the talented female MC Beverly didn’t released a thing. Even she also recorded a buncha records with DJ Premier, that’s right!! Y’all think now, how come? You just have seen the video of J Rock telling a story of a drug dealer, in that clip you see the drug dealer with a bag of cocaine busted right? That guy is actually Jeff Murphy, and to take you on a more sad tour: that video became reality. Jeff were sentenced for a long jail time due to drugs dealing 6 months after that video was recorded.
So where are those unreleased records? Well, at this point no one knows. DJ Premier told us Beverly went to the south starting a family. Lord Finesse told us he actually wishes he still had the records, they were produced by DJ Premier and written by Lord Finesse! So this is the part where the Ghetto Groovz Records story ends.
I can’t tell you how much I played the J Rock LP already (re issued version), I can’t tell you how much I love that hip hop era. And still, yes, still I’m hunting that LP! If someone has a deal he can always contact me… J Rock told some real diggers that their are actually still a lot of copies left at Jeff mom’s crib who lives also in the south. This is real! If those Beverly records will ever see the dayligt will no one knows, but they are somewhere just like their are records of Biggie with Big Pun and Fat Joe.
Source: VinylAddicts, Soulstrut
Hope you enjoyed this post, this is some real DJ Premier history, “fun times” he said.
Update: Here you can find J Rock demo tape!
LiveFromHQ 06/12/08
Not much to say when I was listening this night… Nothing new he said or played. 88-Keys was in the house, he has a new album so that was promoted. He played MVP and Too Strong, he also played the instrumental of MVP. But I have noticed something: while they were talking he played the instrumental of “It’s Been A Long Time Coming” by Flipsyde, now that is still an unreleased track of 2005. So he carries it with him, WHY NOT RELEASING IT?!
Maroon 5 – Secret (Premier 5 Remix)
Well, I’m still not good of the bad news we received yesterday but here is the album version of the DJ Premier Remix for Maroon 5 and I like it alot (beatwise)! Hope this get on vinyl somehow for instru…
Maroon 5 – Secret (Premier 5 Remix) (Prod. by DJ Premier)
Enjoy people while it’s fresh I guess.
R.I.P. Party Arty of D.I.T.C.
DJ Premier email:
I want to send out my condolences to the family of Party Arty of the world famous D.I.T.C. (Diggin’ In The Crates Crew and of GG (aka Get Dirty)
He passed away this afternoon (Dec. 4) around 1:30pm due to healt complications…
His hardcore lyrics have been ringing out in the streets from Showbiz & AG, Lord Finesse, OC, and their own group GD which consists of rhyme partner D-Flow…
He also appeared on the joint I produced called “Weed Scented” which featured Guru of Gang Starr and OC on AG’s first solo LP…He appears on the new D.I.T.C. Records compilation which is in stores now called “The Movement”
…He caught the attention of 50 Cent altough the deal never went thru but his talent was recognized by true heads of the rap shit for his hyped up insane style on records and on stage preformance…
This also marks the 1 year anniversary of UGH member Pimp C who passed away this same day last year…We love you and will miss you both… R.I.P. Arty… DJ Premier
Source: Unofficial DJ Premier Blog
Damn, nobody saw this… And D.I.T.C. was last week in LiveFromHQ… R.I.P.
Famous appearance:
2 tracks on Show & AG’s “Goodfellas” (1995)
1 track on late Big L’s “Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous” (1995)
4 tracks on Show & AG’s “Full Scale LP” (1998)
Buncha tracks on AG’s “The Dirty Version” (1999)
and so on and on…
RIP!!
