Quotes by Dj Premier - Page 2

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 /
Guru
All Day
Bar
Spot
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Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a dope artist that's respected.
Dj Premier /
Hood
Authentic
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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 /
Mesmerized
Mechanics
Turntable
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I've always wanted to work with Klashnekoff. He's been around for years! He's sorta my age but he is dope. The flow, the lyrics, it's just dope music.
Dj Premier /
Dope
Flow
Work Age Music
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Travis Scott's dad was one of my OGs when I was a kid in Texas. Obviously Travis was nonexistent yet because his father wasn't even married back then.
Dj Premier /
Nonexistent
Scott
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Black men, we're known for getting into some drama with other black men, specifically black-on-black crime. We're used to the confrontational attitude.
Dj Premier /
Confrontational
Specifically
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You can't do seven successful albums and just hate each other. Our yin and yang, and night and day, is what made us great when we went into the studio.
Dj Premier /
Yang
Yin
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I'm known for taking a long time getting music out, partially, my schedule is bananas, I'm only human, and then on top of that, I'm a one-man-producer.
Dj Premier /
Bananas
Long Time
Time Music Long
Schedule
Taking
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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 /
Loyalty
Drake
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And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.
Dj Premier /
Finesse
Everybody Else
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I've been listening to Herbie Hancock forever. He's gone through so many transitions, even before bringing hip-hop to the forefront with 'Rockit' and everything.
Dj Premier /
Forefront
Transitions
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Guru and I had a house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for a while and we used to have wild parties there when we weren't in the studio. It was like a fraternity house.
Dj Premier /
Brooklyn
Fraternity
Guru
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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 /
Coincidence
Guru
Time Always New
Breaking
Breaking Up
Chick
Time New Always
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I've always cared about how certain songs fade into other ones and which songs should follow others. I studied that as a consumer and fan before I even got into music.
Dj Premier /
Cared
Consumer
Fade
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I came out with sounds that didn't sound like the usual hip-hop beat. I took that chance because no one would identify with me if I sound like somebody who's already out.
Dj Premier /
Usual
Identify
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Jay Z and Biggie and Nas always listened to my direction. They listened and they applied it and I also listened to their opinions and that's why the records came out so good.
Dj Premier /
Biggie
Records
Applied
Direction
Jay
Listened
Opinions
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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 /
Foul
Good Guy
Muddy
God Good Evil
Dude
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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 /
Coltrane
Supreme
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From Jay-Z to Nas to Kanye to whoever, I'm just not the type to say, 'Hey, let me get on your album.' If they want me, they're going to reach out and say, 'I need a joint from you.'
Dj Premier /
Hey
Jay-Z
Joint
Whoever
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Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and the fight to have equality and things be better.
Dj Premier /
Hard Times
Streets
Borne
Different Language
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With 'Family and Loyalty,' I didn't already have an idea for that video. So I called Fab Five Freddy. I wanted to get a director that I didn't have to explain Gang Starr to and he was with it.
Dj Premier /
Loyalty
Gang
Video
Director
Explain
Freddy
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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 /
Age
Who Cares
Cares
Coming
Lie
Start
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I've been sequencing all of my albums, from any Gang Starr stuff to Jeru to Group Home, all of it. I pay a lot of attention to that and really always have. I've even helped sequence friend's projects.
Dj Premier /
Gang
Sequence
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The passing of my accountant, Mary Coleman, who was the first person I shouted out on 'In Memory of...' was particularly devastating for me. She was beyond my accountant. She was my mother away from home.
Dj Premier /
Mary
Passing
Home Mother Me
Accountant
Coleman
Devastating
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I like soul, I like rock, I like new wave, I like punk music, I like blues, I like jazz, and I was brought up on all of them from a young boy all the way to my teenage years, when I was wild and crazy, in college.
Dj Premier /
Punk
Teenage
Teenage Years
Wave
Blues
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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 /
Gang
Great Thing
Hit Records
Reminiscent
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I don't have session players come in and guitars, I'm doing the drums, I'm doing the scratching, I'm doing every sound you hear and that's always been my way. And not only that, I'm very meticulous about it just sounding right.
Dj Premier /
Meticulous
Session
Guitars
Way Doing Always
Scratching
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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
Remix
Tempo
Joint
Rick
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I'm all about competition; still am to this day. That's how you should be, but not with any malice. From Mike Will Made It to Boi-1da to Mike Zombie, I'm out to get 'em all and it's that friendly competition that keeps us all on our toes.
Dj Premier /
Competition
Friendly
Malice
Mike
Toes
Zombie
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Prince, Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire and Parliament all had albums that sound different. I wanted to show, as a hip-hop producer, I'm one of those that can do anything, because I was raised on so much music aside from rap and hip-hop.
Dj Premier /
Albums
Fire
Parliament
Raised
Sound
Wind
Aside
Collins
Producer
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All of our other albums were consecutive year after year: 'No More Mr. Nice Guy,' 'Step in the Arena,' 'Daily Operation,' 'Hard to Earn.' After 'Hard to Earn,' a four-year gap is a lot of not having Gang Starr music, as far as an album is concerned.
Dj Premier /
Albums
Arena
Consecutive
Gang
Nice Guy
Earn
Four-Year
Gap
Operation
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Guru was actually who A&R'd and got Lord Finesse signed because he used to listen to the demos at Wild Pitch. And he was the one who actually said, 'Yo, this Lord Finesse guy is dope.' And Stuart Fine signed him to Wild Pitch. That's how we became labelmates.
Dj Premier /
Demos
Fine
Guru
Lord
Wild
Signed
Stuart
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The radio stations strayed away from the raw hip-hop that they were playing in the early 1990s. We were like, 'All this watered down stuff is dominating the airwaves. We should make a record to make fun of that' and Guru's like, 'Let's call it 'Mass Appeal.''
Dj Premier /
Dominating
Guru
Mass
Radio
Radio Stations
Stations
Airwaves
Appeal
Early 1990S
Record
Raw
Watered
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Guru died tragically and there were so many rumors about how he went out. I got to see him in the hospital right before he passed, and one of the last things I said to him before I walked out of the room was that I was going to make sure that his family was straight.
Dj Premier /
Guru
Hospital
Rumors
Tragically
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The main thing is we never dissolved our Gang Starr contract. We are still signed to each other. We never disbanded the group. If Guru really wanted to super-dead it he would have said, 'Yo, I want out.' And I still would have tried to convince him to stay. We are still Gang Starr.
Dj Premier /
Gang
Guru
Contract
Dissolved
Main Thing
Signed
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DWYCK' was only intended to be a B-side of 'Take It Personal,' because we had done a record with Nice & Smooth for their album, Ain't a Damn Thing Changed, called 'Down The Line.' They were returning the favor with 'DWYCK,' being that we let them borrow the 'Manifest' instrumental.
Dj Premier /
Damn
Manifest
Borrow
Damn Thing
Favor
Instrumental
Intended
Returning
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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 /
Artist
Now And Then
Sitting
Me Doing Nothing
Beat
Drums
Spot
Matches
Samples
Unused
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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 /
Engines
Music Dad Me
Drum
Drum Set
Jack
Repair
Ride
Scott
Webster
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The ghetto music of my era is hip-hop. And Parliament, and Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye, that was all the ghetto stuff when I was a baby, and then when I was a teenager it was hip-hop and we were taking all those old '70s sounds and recreating them and putting them into a hip-hop format.
Dj Premier /
Format
Ghetto
Parliament
Putting
Sounds
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I remember going backstage on a random night and Kanye goes, 'Ayo Premier, I'm about to drop an album called 'College Dropout' and I'm rapping on the whole thing. And as I soon it drop it's gonna go double platinum.' I looked at him like, 'That's a bold statement to make if you never rapped before.'
Dj Premier /
Platinum
Album
Backstage
Bold
Double
Drop
Rapping
Looked
Premier
Soon
Statement
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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 /
Bars
Buying
Gun
Idiot
Iron
Sensible
Unnecessary
Holding
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Guru's family gave me a piece of his ashes. I saw the gold box of ashes that his father had when we had the memorial service. He had a nice giant gold box that had his name on it. It was really nice. I know all the family members had ashes that they all spread and took on their own. So I said lemme ask is it cool if I have some.
Dj Premier /
Ashes
Family Members
Guru
Memorial
Spread
Cool Family Me
Cool Family Father
Giant
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Lil Wayne, I ain't mad at him man, he did his thing, he stepped up his lyrical game, he the most improved rapper out of anybody. I've seen him from childhood status to what he's doing right now. He stepped up his rap game, so he deserves the success he had. And no one else was even doing near what he was doing, so I applaud him too.
Dj Premier /
Men
Mad
Rap
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I don't want to follow the map of what the music industry does because I've already lived the industry and I still live the industry so I already understand how it works. The industry doesn't really like us around anyway once we get older because we know too much so, that's fine - cut us off - and we'll find another way to get it out there.
Dj Premier /
Cutting
Music Industry
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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 /
Aim
Left
Mink
Remember
Said
Serious
Spit
Accidentally
Came
Guns
Twin
Duck
Event
Gotta
Wearing
Off
Meeting
Pull
Verse
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