Here are the tour dates of DJ Premier & Nick Javas for the next couple months. Looks exhausting. Feel free to add any! It will be an emotional show after Guru‘s passing, Gang Starr!!

2 May 2010, Ebisu Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan (With Pete Rock)
6 May 2010, Cabaret Aléatiore, Marseille, France
7 May 2010, Kugl, St. Gallen, Switzerland
8 May 2010, Gare de Lion, Wil, Switzerland
10 May 2010, Molodoï, Strasbourg, France
11 May 2010, Le Phare, Tournefeuille, France
12 May 2010, Theatre De Vaudeville, Brussels, Belgium
13 May 2010, Bahannon, Berlin, Germany
14 May 2010, Élysée Montmartre, Paris, France (With The Alchemist & Just Blaze)
15 May 2010, Sala Santana 27, Bilbao, Spain
17 May 2010, Jazz Cafe, London, United Kingdom
19 May 2010, Berns, Stockholm, Sweden
20 May 2010, Living Room, Oslo, Norway
21 May 2010, Sala Eventual, Malaga, Spain
22 May 2010, Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (with DJ Scratch & Deams)
9 June 2010, San Francisco Bath, Wellington, New Zealand
10 June 2010, Zen, Auckland, New Zealand
12 June 2010, The Esplanade, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia (With The Beatnuts & Masta Ace & Edo G)
13 June 2010, The Forum, Moore Park, Sydney, Australia (With The Beatnuts & Masta Ace & Edo G)
15 June 2010, Hip Hop Jam Festival, Stare Zdanice u pardubic, Czech Republic
18 June 2010, Shape Bar, Perth, Australia
25 June 2010, The Shelter, Shanghai, China
19 July, Jazz Cafe, London, United Kingdom -CANCELED
23 July, Rocker33, Stuttgart, Germany -CANCELED

Round 3 of VIBE’s Greatest Hip-Hop Producer of All-Time is heating up. Perhaps the most intriguing match-up pits iconic producer and Gang Starr member DJ Premier (1) vs. legendary Run DMC, LL Cool J and Beastie Boys studio visionary Rick Rubin (4). For Preemo, the dream showdown is worth all the hype.

“That’s a big deal… Rick Rubin is definitely among my favorites of all time that I look up to,” DJ Premier said to VIBE. “He’s one of the main reasons why I make music. Even though I’m a competitor and I like to always win, if Rick beats me, I wouldn’t even be surprised because that’s a bad motherfucker.”

As for his own top five producers, the man who has crafted game-changing beats for the likes of Nas (“NY State of Mind”), The Notorious B.I.G. (“Unbelievable”), Jay-Z (“D’Evils”), KRS-One (“MC’s Act They Don’t Know”), M.O.P. (“Ante Up”) and, of course, Gang Starr (“DWYCK”), goes way back.

“Marley Marl is my number one, because his influence on me as a producer was just huge,” Preemo said. “Rick Rubin is next because he took a chance on hip-hop in its early stages, and then for him to be a white dude from the rock & roll era?”

He continues: “Then I would have to say Larry Smith at no. 3 from all the Whodini, Kurtis Blow, and all those early Run DMC records. And I loved King of Chill and Howie Tee. It goes on and on. I’m 44, so I respect music on a different level.”

So what can fans expect from DJ Premier in the future?

“Right now I’m all about my label Year Round Records,” he said. “I have an eclectic roster which includes an artist from Texas named Khaleel who is on some different shit. Then I have an artist named Nick Javas from New Jersey. This guy is an athlete who just graduated from Rutgers University. There are still some things I have to school him on because he’s younger, but he really wants to rhyme circles around everybody. I love his hunger to win. And of course I have the NYG’z and my radio show Live From Headquarters, which I do every Friday night from 10 p.m. to Midnight on Sirius XM. My show is dedicated to only breaking new hip hop music. I play the stuff I think is hot, so I don’t do any favors when it comes to playing records. I don’t care who it is…if I like it, I play it.”

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With Kanye West busy recording his upcoming tentatively-titled album Good Ass Job in his Diamond Head, Hawaii studio, another legendary producer is offering insight into the buzz-heavy project.

“I’m working with Kanye. He reached out to me like, ‘Yo, you at the studio?’” “DJ Premier tells VIBE. “He came by at 8 p.m. and didn’t leave until three in the morning. We were drinking Grey Goose and just bugging out. It was me, Kanye and Showbiz, from Showbiz & AG talking about the whole industry.”

As for Good Ass Job’s overall sound, Preemo says the album, which also reportedly features production from RZA, Q-Tip and Pete Rock, will be a nod to early ‘90s hip hop.

“He told me how he wanted this album to be really boom-bap, hard, hard beats,” Premier says. “He said, ‘No electro Preem, I swear no electro [Laughs].’ Ye is still that crazy dude he’s always been. He’s really focused on making this album raw. So I gave him a banger and he said he wanted two more on top of that one. I’m giving him two more this week.”

Source: VIBE.com

10 days ago the world was blessed with another DJ Premier beat. The rap artists Truck North & The 3rd leaked their song they did with DJ Premier. Supported by NahRight who told me the beat was authentic. Like I said in the post of that leak, it’s quit strange we hear a Premo beat outta nowhere…

A reliable source told me DJ Premier never heard of the track until he was asked about it by him. The beat belongs already to a not-further-discussed other artist. How the Premo beat got in hands of them is still unknown, by time of this article, they were not reachable for further comments. DJ Premier is working on it to shut them down my source reported.

Update (12/17/2012): The not-further-discussed artist was Nas and he was the only one who had the beat. To this day DJ Premier still wonders how Truck North & The 3rd stole that beat. Anyway, the beat is now given to Teflon for his upcoming album “Contraband” and the Truck North track will be considered as a bootleg/fake on the trackology.

Story continues…