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DJ Premier
DJ Premier
American Musician
Born: Mar 21, 1966
About Always Like Me Music You
The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me to not make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio hit records. 'Make a Gang Starr track and we'll write our lyrics to that,' they told me. They couldn't stress it enough. DJ Premier
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Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that predominantly matches the artist in my 30 years of doing this, it was me walking in and sitting there with no drums, no samples, no nothing, and making a beat on the spot. DJ Premier
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Well, I've always held down Guru… His spirit knows this. DJ Premier
Down Guru Spirit Well Knows Always His Held
I use whatever it takes to make the tracks identify what me and Guru are all about. DJ Premier
Me Whatever Guru About Takes Identify Make Tracks Use
I'm real particular about delivery. You can write the illest rhymes in the world, but can you deliver it right? DJ Premier
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I remember Bumpy Knuckles came in wearing all mink everything and said, 'Yo, when I spit my verse, I gotta pull my guns out and aim them.' He was serious! I told him that I was going to duck in the event that those guns accidentally went off. He pulled out the twin glocks, spit his verse in one take and said, 'I've got a meeting to go to' and left! DJ Premier
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The majority of my life is spent doing nothing but godly things, especially when it comes to dealing with other people. DJ Premier
Life People My Life Nothing Other Spent Majority Dealing Doing Godly Things
Actually, for 'Family & Loyalty' I wanted Drake on the track but he was about to go on tour for his Scorpion album, so timewise it wasn't going to work. DJ Premier
Work Family Loyalty Drake About Tour He Track Go His Going Wanted Actually Album
God knows I'm a good guy, I'm known in the industry as a good guy. I'm not known to be a foul, evil dude that you've got to watch out for and my name is not muddy in the industry. DJ Premier
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I used to lie about my age at first because you always want to be 18, but then you start looking at it and you're 40, and the money's still coming. And you're like, 'Man, who cares about that?' DJ Premier
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Guru always wanted to do what he called a 'chick record.' By coincidence, every time we did one, he was either breaking up with one or with a new girl that he loved. DJ Premier
Time Girl Every Every Time Record Guru He New Always Chick Up Did Wanted Loved Either Breaking Breaking Up Coincidence
I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity. DJ Premier
Creativity Reputation Never Known Artist Just Just One
I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know. DJ Premier
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If I gotta do a Jay-Z beat I want to stop everything. Tell everybody hold my calls, everything. DJ Premier
Everybody Everything Tell Beat Calls Gotta Stop Want Hold Jay-Z
Yeah, Travis Scott's dad taught me how to ride minibikes and how to repair the engines. His name's Jack Webster. Jack had a drum set and his brother had a bass. So I used to play with them, and that's what started me wanting to get into music and take it serious. And this is before rap. DJ Premier
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I listen to my early Gang Starr interviews, I'm like, damn I was really trying to sound like a New Yorker then. DJ Premier
Damn Interviews New Like Sound Trying Yorker Listen New Yorker Then Really Gang Early
If you don't have any Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme' will do it for you. It will explain everything. Even if you don't get it, it will still explain everything. That's how deep it is. DJ Premier
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I'm not really a crying type. DJ Premier
Type Crying Really
My mom's an art teacher, so I always had music in the house. She always had records, and I was mesmerized by the mechanics of how a turntable works. DJ Premier
Teacher Music Art Mom Records Had House Mesmerized She Always How Turntable Works Mechanics
When I hold a gun, I know how to be sensible about it. I'm not holding it to wild out or just to shoot somebody because I'm mad at him. There's responsibility in buying that gun, and part of it is dealing with it like a man, and not dealing with it like an idiot, and getting behind iron bars for unnecessary reasons. DJ Premier
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All my idols have been in the studio with me, because they wanted to be there. DJ Premier
Me Studio Because Idols Been Wanted
Anyone from our era knows that Guru was in every club and every bar and every spot. He could go all night, all day. And he would never be tired! DJ Premier
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It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist. DJ Premier
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I don't shop beats. That was never my method coming up. I think it's very strange to have a CD of 30 or 40 beats and then just pick one. DJ Premier
Strange CD Think I Think Never Pick Beats Coming Method Up Very Shop Just Then
The Nike joint 'Classic' with Kanye, Nas, KRS-One, that was a remix - Rick Rubin did the original, and his was a double-time tempo; mine was a regular boom-bap tempo, and they liked it so much that we ended up doing the video to it. DJ Premier
Nike Mine Classic Tempo Joint Remix Liked Doing His Up Did Ended Video Much Regular Kanye Rick Original
Bad Name' is just that head-nod, traditional loop over a breakbeat, chopped up, and it sounds like the way I do my thing. DJ Premier
Way Bad Over Name Like Loop Sounds Traditional Up Just Chopped Thing
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