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Ill Bill’s The Grimy Awards drops on the 29th of January 2013. And will feature the following guests: HR of Bad Brains, A-Trak, El-P, Jedi Mind Tricks, OC, Cormega, Meyhem Lauren, Q-Unique, Shabazz The Disciple & Lil Fame of M.O.P., And will feature production from: DJ Premier, DJ Muggs, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Psycho Les, El-P, Ayatollah, MoSS, C-Lance & Ill Bill himself. Yes yes yes!

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Here are the European tour dates for “The Kolexxxion” tour with DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles, which party are you attending?

Fri 28 sep: Münster, Skater`s Palace, Germany
Sat 29 sep: Annecy, Pop Plage, France
Sun 30 sep: Amsterdam, Melkweg, Netherlands
Tue 02 oct: Cologne, Bogen 2, Germany
Wed 03 oct: Cologne, Bogen 2, Germany
Thu 04 oct: Berlin, Bohannon, Germany
Fri 05 oct: Basel, Kaserne, Suisse
Sat 06 oct: Stuttgart, Schräglage, Germany
Sun 07 oct: Vienna, Pratersauna, Austria
Wed 10 oct: Bristol, Lakota, UK
Thu 11 oct: Sofia, Live Club, Bulgaria
Fri 12 oct: Bucharest, Color, Romania
Sat 13 oct: Vilnius, Loftas, Lithuania
Sun 14 oct: Stockholm, Strand, Sweden
Mon 15 oct: Oslo, Jaeger, Norway
Tue 16 oct: Gothenburg, Sticky Fingers, Sweden
Wed 17 oct: Copenhagen, Rust, Denmark
Thu 18 oct: Malmö, Babel, Sweden
Fri 19 oct: Paris, Nouveau Casino, France
Sat 20 oct: London, Garage, UK
Sun 21 oct: Manchester, Moho Live, UK
Mon 22 oct: Brussels, Bazaar, Belgium
Tue 23 oct: Bern, Bonsoir, Suisse
Wed 24 oct: Bordeaux, Le Complexe, France
Thu 25 oct: Bergen, Cosmo, Norway
Fri 26 oct: Napoli, Impero 2, Italy
Sat 27 oct: Chiasso, Palapenz, Suisse

It looks like Game is hooked on Premo beats. Just like his last album, DJ Premier has again a spot on his new album “Jesus Piece”. The track is called “HVN4AGNGSTA” is going to feature Master P and DJ Premier on the beat. Jesus Piece should be dropping before the end of the year, he revealed the artists that will be featured on the album, including Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz, Chris Brown, Scarface, Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Tyga, and more. Also, according to his Twitter, Rihanna and Pharrell may also be making appearances.

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GrindXDesign will launch its digital conferencing platform this week. The New York City-based consortium of Hip Hop artists, producers and executives is led by famed journalist, radio host, activist and “Media Assassin” Harry Allen, as a way to educate and empower hopeful artists and industry movers and shakers.

The first of GrindXDesign’s digital conferences will include legendary Gang Starr deejay/producer DJ Premier as well as longtime Roc-A-Fella/Roc Nation Records engineer Young Guru. The hour-long live conference on August 29th at 8pm will be moderated by Harry Allen, featuring an interview, followed by live Q&A from attendees.

Future guests in the eight-week series will include The Roots’ ?uestlove, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, DJ Drama, XXL’s Editor-in-Chief Vanessa Satten, The Source’s Editor-In-Chief Kim Osorio, DatPiff.com’s founder Marcus Frasier, Rap Coaltion founder Wendy Day, attorney Dan Booth, Tunecore’s Jamie Purpora, social media strategist Lena West, and film exec Arthur Wylie.

The conferences are built to take up to 1,000 simultaneous participants, and may run as long as 90 minutes based on guest availability and engagement.

“What’s incredibly exciting about GrindXDesign,” began Allen in a statement, “is that, if you’re a beat-maker in Argonne, Wisconsin, through digital conference call technology, you’ll have as much access to DJ Premier or Young Guru as someone from New York or L.A. If you want the mixtape success of a Lil Wayne, but need to understand what makes this format
hot, you’ll be able to listen to, and maybe get a question in to, DJ Drama, or the founder of DatPiff.com; the dominant mixtape website.”

“Like Twitter,” Allen continued, “the technology eliminates geographic or other boundaries, connecting fans and students directly to knowledgeable authorities. Unlike Twitter, you’re not limited to merely sending or receiving extremely short pieces of text.”

“Our objective is equipping people who want careers in Hip Hop with the right information, at an incredibly low cost; certainly cheaper than what even small mistakes in any of these areas could cost them.”

To attend these conferences, tickets may be purchased by credit card or Paypal at GrindXDesign.com. If purchased before August 23, tickets are $77, and $97 following.

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We from DJPremierBlog.com want to send out our condolence to the Elam & Clark Families. R.I.P. to this important man (90 years old!!), Judge Harry Justin Elam (Guru’s father).

Retired Judge Harry Justin Elam was the first African American appointed to the Boston Municipal Court of Massachusetts. Subsequently, Elam became the Chief Justice of this court and later was appointed as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Prior to his judgeship years, between 1971 and 1988, he was a prominent lawyer in the city of Boston from 1952 to 1971.

More here and here (Check it out!!).

(Harry Elam Jr., Harry Elam Sr., and Keith (“Guru”) Elam on Cape Cod in the 1970s.)

I just got this mail from the French artist Venom, he will have a new full album in 2013 with productions from DJ Premier, Buckwild, MC Zombi, Azaia and thankfully himself (because he’s also a good producer). Guest features are from Edo G, MC Zombi & Minuit. Be on the lookout, he doesn’t play!

btw, it looks like Soulkast also will have another Premo production next year…

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