G. FISHER – PREMIER FISH (SCRATCHES BY DJ PREMIER)
G. Fisher, son of the legendary Guy Fisher, drops two verses to the DJ Premier Beats That Collected Dust Vol. 1. Here is the outcome over “Dinky” and “B-Line.”
PRHYME: DELUXE (ALBUM STREAM)
The deluxe version of Royce Da 5’9″ and DJ Premier’s PRhyme album is now here for your listening pleasure. So go ahead and hit play for some more rugged rhymes and raw beats courtesy of DJ Premier and Royce Da 5’9″ with some assistance from a collection of superfriends.
Stream it and then buy it.
PRHYME FEAT. BLACK THOUGHT – WISHIN’ 2
Black Thought was originally supposed to be on the PRhyme album but the unexpected death of The Roots’ manager caused the emcee to not make the album. However, with the deluxe version of the album dropping, Black Thought ends up on the remix to “Wishin'” and replaces Common with a disgustingly ill verse. If you haven’t ordered the album by now, what are you waiting for?
PRHYME FEAT. JOEY BADA$$ – GOLDEN ERA
After dropping the MF Doom and Phonte collaboration “Highs & Lows”, DJ Premier and Royce Da 5’9″ drop another track from the deluxe edition of the PRhyme album (that you can pre-order here). Joey Bada$$ joins the dynamic duo for the appropriately titled “Golden Era” that finds the emcees delivering poignant lyricism over a nasty DJ Premier production.
RICK ROSS – BLACK OPIUM (PRODUCED BY DJ PREMIER)
Rick Ross’ dropped his Black Market album today and DJ Premier had his hand in The Bawse’s latest effort with “Black Opium.”
PRHYME FEAT. MF DOOM & PHONTE – HIGHS & LOWS
That long rumored track that has DJ Premier and Royce Da 5’9″ joining forces with MF Doom is finally here and gets an additional boost from the one and only Phonte Coleman. Pre-order the deluxe edition of the PRhyme album right here.
BILLBOARD NAMES NAS’ NY STATE OF MIND AS #2 GREATEST HIP HOP BEAT OF ALL TIME
Billboard recently published a ranking of the 10 greatest hip hop beats of all-time. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message,” Produced by Ed Fletcher, Clifton “Jiggs” Chase and Sylvia Robinson, took the top spot. Coming in at #2 was the Nasir Jones and DJ Premier collaboration on “NY State of Mind” off of Nas’ classic Illmatic. Here’s the description below.
DJ Premier is arguably the best hip-hop producer of all time, and this may he his finest beat, and the one that represents him the best. He was raised in Texas before moving east, but his mid ’90s work — particularly on Nas’ flawless Illmatic debut — basically exemplifies the classic New York underground sound that folks like Joey Bada$$ idolize to this day. It’s been called “boom bap,” and the drums that start this classic Nas highlight (arguably the best album opener of all time) could very well be the inspiration for the term. It features also another Premier signature — one of his weird, unidentifiable monotone chirps, sampled from who knows where — and then the piano riff fades in, as sinister as the darkest Queensbridge stairwell. There’s no escape from the street scenarios it inspired Nas to describe — or this unforgettable beat once it gets into your nodding head.
You can check out the rest of the list here.
PRHYME – COURTESY
Remember last year when the teaser clip of PRhyme’s “Courtesy” hit? Well, damn near a year later the entities known as DJ Premier and Royce Da 5’9″ drop the full video on your head.
CLASSIFIED FEAT. DJ PREMIER – FILTHY
From the forthcoming LP “Grateful” dropping January 15th on Halflife Records/Universal Canada, The raw emcee known as “Classified” drops the first single and video “Filthy” along with scratches by Gang Starr’s own DJ Premier to make it all complete.
DJ PREMIER STUDIES YOUNG THUG?
In an interview with HipHopWired, DJ Premier addressed the old school vs. new school and why he buys Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug’s music.