Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Why Gang Starr Reunion Will Never Happen

...because Guru is smokin' something wack? I know this blog gets a lot of visitors so I need to keep it objective, but fuck that for now. I'm going to tell you my opinion about this situation (as a fan like thousands of you), so if you don't like it go (to a place where your shit rest). DJ Premier didn't had any contact with Guru since The Ownerz tour ended in Australia, he had some mails and that's all. It was a fact Preem and Guru had a lot of fights, even personal fights like Guru's drinking issue and stuff like that but that is what real friends make (fo sho), they were about to first split in '97 because of the fights and Guru who had to go to court that time, but Gordon told Premo what the deal was and he sticked with Guru and made "Moment of Truth". Offcourse they sticked together, that is real friendship...

We still don't know what happened between Premier and Guru, but whatever happend, it doesn't make any difference people. Hell with that, I don't even want to know what happened. Real friends always come together again, no matter what happened. They were like more then 10 years friends. That's how I experience life, so that could maybe be the first reason: no real friendship? Nah son, forget that... I'm tripping.

Now we got a lot of people asking Gang Starr this, Gang Starr that to Premier. Stop that, don't drive his head crazy, we already know his answer: "I'm ready when he is, bla bla bla". Don't question me, I ain't dissin' Premo. Love this positive attitude towards Guru who is acting the king of hip hop. Obviously Premier is the bigger guy here (and I'm mostly riding his dig), but he needs to step his game up. I understand he doesn't have a lot of time, but if he really want a new Gang Starr album (same as Guru back as friend) he needs to say "Fuck this, I'm going to his home and we will smoke a big fat peace blunt and bring up memories". This could be the second reason why Gang Starr will never be again, Premo is too lazy? Nah son, forget that... I'm tripping.

But now we have Guru saying only he is Gang Starr:
So why don’t we do this, why don’t we just skip that discussion and I’ll just say I am Gang Starr,” he replied when asked to address the elephant in the room. Gang Starr is me. And it comes out in whatever I do, to the fullest. 7 Grand is the future. Guru and Solar are those intelligent, creative leaders that Hip Hop needs right now, and will be needing… It’s your favorite rapper, the legendary, combined with NYC’s brightest producer. That’s what it’s about. [...] We are ‘The Ownerz.’ Solar and I are real owners. Instead of a concept, this is real.”
This could be the biggest problem of them all, I wonder how Premo feels now. I'm not expecting him to cry in a dark room, but I guess you don't like to hear this when you worked your ass of for more then a decade for the true thing you love. And what the fuck is wrong with Guru, he needs some medication, ok, you are the king, go spread that. But we all know the source of this reckless behaviour, yes, here is his part: Superproducer Solar. First of all: C'mon son, did you serious say "I produced maybe four underground records and I'm working with Guru now, that means... I AM A SUPERPRODUCER". The fact that you call yourself a superproducer is like Vanilla Ice saying he is the best rapper ever, point zero. But I guess he is cleaver, think about the groupies who are going to say "I'm going to the superproducer". Not to mention how funny it's watching Guru's interviews where superproducer Solar is interrupting him all the time to say everything better. This could be the third reason, Superproducer Solar is Guru's father? Nah son, forget this... I'm tripping.

But hey, now it's sounds like I'm dissing everybody especially Superproducer Solar? Yes, you are right as matter of fact I am. But that was after I thought there could be a middle way for this "DJ Premier wants Gang Starr, but Guru wants only Superproducer Solar" situation. I really didn't saw the problem of Guru with DJ Premier making records and Guru making records with Superproducer Solar. Why don't do the both? DJ Premier produced for Jazzmatazz before and Superproducer Solar has some dope productions, no question. But the reason I bought a Jazzmatazz album was for the difference, the difference artists on it and the difference productions. Would it be so crazy to have one Premo record on that album? Oelalala, what's wrong? Scared of his production skills? Scared of how dope that scratch sound? No man, now I'm hating on 7Grand again (sorry). That's not what I meant, I was trying to think about a solution but maybe it's better Gang Starr won't happen again, if you do a reunion just for the fans then you have to quit immedialty... You can't continue your legacy with a fucked up vibe. Now you heard my version of why a Gang Starr Reunion will never happen, excuse myself...

This is one of the rare times I post my own opinions, but I felt I needed to speak up for this one time and shut up forever you know. Don't expect more of this, I'm not really an eThug... If you are Guru or DJ Premier and you feel like, I would say maybe like this, I don't know... Could be: "Man, who does he think he is? My shadow?" then you need to contact me. Like I said, we are going to quit this now. Sorry Guru, I won't go to your show in Ostend. Yes Premo, I'll go to your show in Ghent end of this month. Oh, Premo, don't forget to leak that Teflon track on LiveFromHQ, you forgot to give it to DJ Eclipse last week. Peace! And if you are wondering what I eat, still toblerone all day every day. And one day, Gang Starr will be together again...

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Scratch Academy: Beatmaking 101

This one got uploaded some weeks ago, it's a part from the Scratch Academy DVD where DJ Premier, Evil Dee, DJ Shok & Reg E Gaines sit together and talk about hip hop. It's nothing new, it's old stuff but I never saw it before and it's interesting. Take a look:

Friday, March 27, 2009

DJ Premier & Blaq Poet in London Part One

Part one of wearehq.com:


Part one of djmksworld.com:

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

DJ Premier & Blaq Poet on Kiss, London

Here you have a one hour interview with DJ Premier & Blaq Poet when they were in London last week. They talked about various stuff like Tha Blaqprint, Poet's history, Illmatic, Nas Collabo album, The Best The Never Did It, Kick In The Door, Preems favourite mcs, Big L, Legendary Pt. 1, Serato, Return Of The Boombap, Premo's favourite producers now, ... It's about time I need to ask some questions to Premo too, don't you think, but enjoy this one:

DJ Premier & Blaq Poet on Kiss

LiveFromHQ Playlist 13/03/2009

Tracks:
  1. Big Shug - Militant Soldiers II
  2. Redman & Method Man - A Yo
  3. Young Maylay - He's Uh Felon
  4. GrandMaster Flash - What If
  5. Keelay & Zaire - The Times
  6. M.O.P. - Blow The Horns
  7. Milano - The Ladder
  8. Capone-N-Noreaga - Grand Royal
  9. B-Real - Don't Ya Dare Laugh
  10. Saigon & Statik Selektah - My Crew
  11. Young Maylay - Spittin Verses II
  12. D-Sisive - High School Cool
  13. Rob Quest - My Way
  14. Keelay & Zaire - We Made It
  15. Reks - Goodnight And Good Luck
  16. Talib Kweli - My Favorite Song
  17. Rick Ross - Cigar Music
Guests: /

Monday, March 23, 2009

Blaq Poet - I-Gettin

We had a snippet of this track before in very bad quality and live, this one is also live but it's full and in 'better' quality. So I thought it would be fair to share it on this blog with you guys. This will be the first track on Blaq Poet's upcoming album "Tha Blaqprint" and feels more as an intro. It will get you ready for the bangers. DJ Premier also produced this one, so your speakers will need to be ready too. Enjoy:

Blaq Poet - I-Gettin (Live) (Prod. by DJ Premier)

DJ Premier Eurotour Updates



Here are pictures of London
Here are pictures of Bucharest

Saturday, March 21, 2009

New Interview

DJ Premier turns 43 today

I don't know a lot of DJ Premier's personal life, and I don't want to know, but according to wikipedia he turns today 43 years. So happy birthday to worlds finest producers hehe.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

DJ Premier & Blaq Poet Live Set

Now we all know DJ Premier and Blaq Poet are touring I thought it would be appropriate to release this live set of them two together last year in Vienna, Austria. The audio comes straight from Preems turntables and Poets mic. It was recorded the 10th of may. When "Tha Blaqprint" wasn't expected yet. I was also informed that the Teflon album is still worked on, he did a new joint with Premo featuring Saigon & Papoose. Enjoy the short live set:

Blaq Poet - Live In Austria (Vienna) (10.05.08)

Monday, March 16, 2009

DJ Premier in Ghent 30/04/2009

If y'all wondering where Ghent is, it's in my country Belgium YAY!! It's even the city where I study lol, made my day. But it's not official yet, more info:

Here are the other dates of his tour through Europe with Blaq Poet:

March, 20 2009 11:45 PM - London
March, 21 2009 11:45 PM - Zurich
March, 22 2009 11:45 PM - Bucharest
March, 23 2009 11:45 PM - Sofia
March, 26 2009 11:45 PM - Rome
March, 27 2009 11:45 PM - Dusseldorf
March, 28 2009 11:45 PM - Amsterdam

UPDATE:
April, 10 2009 11:45 PM - Baltimore

Sunday, March 15, 2009

LiveFromHQ 14/03/2009

Just want to tell you guys you didn't miss any new DJ Premier productions. Next two weeks will DJ Eclipse fill in for Preem because he will go on tour again with Biggest Gord and Blaq Poet to promote his upcoming album "Tha Blaqprint". London, Amsterdam, Bucharest, ...

Friday, March 13, 2009

Rare Play Vol. 2

Tracklist:
  1. DJ Premier - Rare Play Vol. 2 Intro
  2. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Pop Shots
  3. Smiley The Ghetto Child - Wake Up Call
  4. Marxmen - Bloody Murdah
  5. Pitch Black feat. Styles P - Nice
  6. Smooth B - Game Over
  7. Gang Starr - Battle
  8. Just-Ice feat. Big Daddy Kane - The Immortal
  9. Rah Digga - Lesson Of Today
  10. Kool G. Rap - First Nigga (Remix)
  11. Big Shug - Crush
  12. Bumpy Knuckles - P.A.I.N.E.
  13. Paula Perry - Extra, Extra
  14. Xzibit - What A Mess
  15. MC Lyte - Wonder Years
  16. Gang Starr - Tha Squeeze
  17. Royce - My Friend
  18. EDO.G - Sayin' Something
Coming on the 7th of april (2009) on Bare Fist Recordings. All tracks produced by DJ Premier, track 8 is probably known as "Just Rhymin' With Kane". Wow, he actually didn't forget his volumes! I excited to hear the intro beat like always and now lets hope on "Beats That Collected Dust Vol. 2". I also heard "Tha Blaqprint" will be dropping in april too, but we'll see...

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Gang Starr - Doe in Advance (Original Version)

For those who love the good ol' preem days this can be interesting, I'm not quit sure how to say it. But for me it's totally new... It sounds like more the demo version of the Gang Starr track "Doe In Advance". Officially it was released on "Hard To Earn" as a bonus track on the Japanese version. Later you could buy it on bootleg vinyl singles and so on, that was always the version I heard untill now, because now I bought this Japanese import. And guess what, this beat is different then those on the bootlegs because the bootlegs contains a version with an uncleared sample, the song was original ment to be as a B Side for "Suckas Need Bodyguards" in 1994. But due to sample issues it was changed to "The ? Remainz". I call this version the original version:

Gang Starr - Doe in Advance (Original Version)

Tell me what you think? GANG STARR!!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

DJ Premier on Conspiracy Radio

A new 30 minute long interview of DJ Premier who talks about a lot of things, like his collaboration albums with KRS-One and MC Eight, his solo album, his label, 50 Cent joint, Eminem joint, about internet, about Guru, Telfon, female rap, himself doing rhymes, and so on... The only problem is: it's taken with a cell phone. So spread your ears for this one:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/567406871a3dfa1b/

And a little extra, another interview taken during his visit to Poland:

http://www.hip-hop.pl/video/projector.php?id=1236421704

Saturday, March 7, 2009

DJ Premier is Model

When DJ Premier was in Poland he did a photoshoot for a clothing brand called "Massdnm", in world war II style! Thanks to miki for the hook up, here is the result:

Source: massdnm.com

Friday, March 6, 2009

Tha Blaqprint Small Update

Here you have DJ Premier talking about "Tha Blaqprint" album for Blaq Poet last night on "The Halftime Show" with DJ Eclips:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/565873897967b20f/

Thursday, March 5, 2009

DJ Premier Set on the The Halftime Show

WNYU's long-running rap broadcast "The Halftime Show" celebrates its eleventh anniversary tonight: unlike the emcee extravaganza last year host with the most DJ Eclipse will be joined by DJs only, specifically DJ Premier, Evil Dee & Mr Walt, A-Trak, Tony Touch and JS-1. Here you have Preems part, enjoy:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5658717153261718/

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Capone-N-Noreaga - Grand Royal

Today the full (unmastered) version of Capone-N-Noreaga "Grand Royal" track leaked from their album "Channel 10". Like we all know produced by DJ Premier, for more info: I posted the snippet last week. This track is recorded last year and then Preem said it was a rejected Rakim beat!

Monday, March 2, 2009

DJ Premier in Sofia 23/03/2009

23th of March, Sofia, Bulgaria.