Good news for all the West Coast fans as Comptons Most Wanted will be reunited after 7(?) years on one track of MC Eiht’s long awaited and anticipated album “Which Way Iz West”. To top all that news, that track will be produced by DJ Premier and is named “Last Ones Left”. The last official album of the legendary crew from Compton was released in 2006 (Music to Gang Bang). Like most of us knows, DJ Premier already worked in the past with CMW when he did the b-side remix for “Def Wish II” in 1992. An instant classic for vinyl collectors! With that note there was also more details released on MC Eiht’s new album. Not only this reunion will be produced by DJ Premier, but he will handle the production of 4 more other tracks on the album with one featuring Bumpy Knuckles. The last info update said “Which Way Iz West” will be released in September ’13, lets hope…

btw… the next M.O.P. album will be fully produced by DJ Premier!

Whoohaa, we have a new winner in our small little own DJ Premier awards!! If you compare the vote number with last year you see we had less votes, but I don’t care about that. All I know is that we still had 2,454 votes!! I have to thank my real fans for that. And with no further yip yap, the best DJ Premier Beat of 2012 is:

Congrats to the whole La Coka Nostra clique, they smashed the vote by collecting 28% (aka 675votes) of the votes, what a beat!! What sad is… is that just like last year, this jam didn’t have a vinyl release. So it official I guess… singles on vinyl are death. Here are the full results:

So what’s your opinion? My vote went out to the Nas remix, the way he chopped up that Andraé Crouch sample… BANANAS!! What I noticed is that in 2012 no European artist released a DJ Premier collabo, while two years ago a European artist won the vote… But 2013 will change that, that’s a fact. Damn… with Joey Bada$$ as the first beat in 2013 I can’t wait what Premo has more to offer, lets go!!

Previous winners:
2011 winner: You by Evidence (22%)
2010 winner: Première Salve by Soulkast (20%)
2009 winner: Rap Addiction by Blaq Poet (17%)
2008 winner: Say Goodnight by Reks (30%)

Once again, thanks to all the voters, you were with a lot! And congratulations to La Coka Nostra with the win! AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE !! 2k13 will bring us a lot of fresh new Premo beats!!! End of DJ Premier Blog Awards.

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
DJ Premier’s Top 25 of 2010
DJ Premier’s Top 20 of 2009

!! 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!!

Last week you could bid on 2 unique vinyl items on the famous auction site Ebay. Both “Sun Rises in The East” and “Step in the Arena” are instrumental lp’s pressed by DJ Premier himself to spin at concerts when the albums came out mid 90s. Both albums have DJ Premier produced instrumentals that are never released before. Those two facts plus the unique value of those records made the price go sky rocking in just hours, it’s every vinyl record collectors wet dream to have this hanging in your room. Gang Starr’s “Step In The Arena” was eventually sold for $511.00, while Jeru The Damaja’s “Sun Rises In The East” was sold for $1,226.00 (!). The buyer(s) remains anonymous, but there is a great chance the two lp’s are now heading for Asia. And the seller was not DJ Premier himself to be clear :D.

!! THE CONTEST IS OVER !!

Lord Finesse picked his favorite comment!! And the winner is:

Katy from Hungary with this comment:

I’m only 26 years old and a female hip hop DJ from Eastern Europe, but for me Lord Finesse is a living legend. I was born when he started his career as an MC.This Classic LP would have deserved 5 mics from The Source.Wish I could have been at one of the gigs in Europe this month.

She will get a notice from Slice of Spice very soon with a nice package of vinyl! I would like to thank all the participants, as well Slice of Spice Records and Lord Finesse. On to the next one (who’s coming very soon…)
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DJPremierBlog.com teamed up with Slice of Spice Records (slice-of-spice.com) and Lord Finesse for the very first time. We have one prize to offer to the person who gave the best/unique/inspiring comment. More info below! First:

THE PRIZE:

– A SIGNED Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth – Funky Technician Instrumentals 180g Gatefold 2x LP – Gold Vinyl (Limited!)

!!WORLDWIDE SHIPPING!!

How? It’s simple, you just have to write a comment on the soundcloud link of the sampler. Lord Finesse will pick out what he thinks is the most unique/inspiring comment and we’ll reach out to you to ship the prize. This is your chance to get this rare limited release that makes every hip hop fan starts trembling! Put the comment here or:

Deadline: 30th of November

You can still buy the following historical items (almost out of stock!):

Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth – Funky Technician Instrumentals Deluxe Double LP (Ltd Edition)
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth – Funky Technician Instrumentals Special Edition Gold LP
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth – Inconsiderate Females (Silver) 5″ Limited!
AND MORE…

END POLL: 1 JANUARY 2013

With The Game being the last beat of 2012 it’s again that time of the year my friends. We didn’t get NYGz, MC Eiht nor KRS-One, Pete Rock and Get Used To It DVD. But we did had a productive year. I wonder if I can out due last year vote succes. Be aware, judge strictly on the beats, not the rhymes. It’s the beat that matters in this poll… And I’m sorry, but I had to cut some tracks away because otherwise the list will be to big. Who will run away with the award?? This one could be hard to choose from!!

2011 winner: You by Evidence (22%)
2010 winner: Première Salve by Soulkast (20%)
2009 winner: Rap Addiction by Blaq Poet (17%)
2008 winner: Say Goodnight by Reks (30%)

In 2008 we had 359 votes, in 2009 we had 950 votes, in 2010 we had 3 118 votes, in 2011 we had 4,098 votes. LETS BEAT THAT RECORD MY FAMILY!! WHO WILL WIN THE AWARD??? VOTE VOTE VOTE!!

Thank you for your time and support over the years! -gim