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HIP HOP / 30 www.guestlist.net RNB Issue 48 / 2013 IEW RV TE IN Your show was crazy! England is feeling you, how do you like it here? DJ PREMIER I love England man! It's like good sex, like you can fuck a chick and get off on it, but there's certain chicks and you fuck 'em and you get way off on it because you have a chemistry. I go hard till I bust a nut and when I bust that nut that's when I go, "Good night everybody!" Once identified as 'arguably Hip Hop's greatest producer of all time' by Rolling Stone, ahead of his gig hosted by The Doctor's Orders on 28th February at Plan B we got the chance to interview the man behind 4 record labels, over 20 albums and 20 years of being in the hip hop industry. on Nas. Whenever he says go, I'm ready to go. OSHI | guestlist.net What's happening! It's a pleasure to be talking to a legend, how you doing? I'm good man, working and staying focused. Where you now, New York? Yeah, I'm in New York. I'm getting the baby some things, then I'm back in the studio. Nice one! So is this your first child? Yep first one. I'm 46 now and it made me start all over again and I think it's really healthy. It gives me the perspective to carry on, get back on my hip hop game so I can be prepared for when he gets old enough to understand the culture that I live in y'know? Wicked, So has having a child given you a different outlook on your work? No question, 100%. It makes me get back to like 1992 -1993 to when I had a whole bunch of stuff out. You are the greatest hip hop producer of all time. What on earth can be your goals now? My goal now is just to expand Year Round Records, which has been kind of a stop-start type of a situation. Black Poets did well, NYGz had a groundbreaking and need more recognition, even though they were an extension of the Gang Starr Foundation. Even though they didn't record, they were in the streets living that life. But Panchi and Shabeeno turned out to be another force to be reckoned with and they're now at the level where I wanna break them into the game and I gotta thank Guru for putting them out first when they were called Operation Ratification. Then I do my classic series where I'm doing an album with MC Eight Compton's Most Wanted called Which Way Is West?. And then I have Lady of Rage, we doing an album together which is almost done. I did hear something about you possibly doing something with Nas? We been talking about it. He's been like "Hey man" then he started napping, then he said it again, then started napping, so its really Is there anyone else you would like to work with as much? I've always wanted to work with Ghostface Killa, just because I'm a big fan of his, others in the WU , Inspectah Deck, the gizzle (GZA) - who I called the other day and told him I wanted to speak with him soon. But when it happens is when it's gonna happen and I'm looking forward to it too, but in the meantime I'm doing a couple other things; I'm working with Soulkast again and I just gave him a beat, Right To It. I'm also working with Dylan again, I did a Vigilante remix with him and Black Poet last year so we gonna do a record together. And it's called Poison because the part of France he lives in is really rough with a lot of people on drugs and heroin and he wants to address it. Who inspires you to do good for the hood? My father, my parents my son, all of them are inspirations because with them I know how to take it to the next level to be another piece in this struggle we are all going through. My part of making the world better is to make good music for people going through the struggle; not everyone can afford expensive cars so I give them music and I've always done that. Hip hop is my inspiration and I'm not negative in my music, you gotta lead by example. In the meantime I'm setting up the DJ Premier website which will be carrying all my merchandise, my CDs, my vinyls, hats, t-shirts, cigarette lighters, key chains, umbrellas, everything. We're also setting up the official Gang Starr website, so that will all be ready in the summer. So its nice to hear Gang Starr is still a big part of your life. Oh 100%, I mean its what got me here so why stop that? And why not capitalize on it? So if there are any young cats out there, that's like a young Premo and you were gonna give them advice, what advice would you give them? I would say this: always be original, and always compare yourself to someone in the business that you wanna be in, who you like and respect and copy them and master what they've done, but don't be a biter. You will fit in some piece of the puzzle because we need as many people as possible to make this thing dope. There's no excuse for not being able to be the next greatest thing. I compared myself to Eric B & Rakim, Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J, RunDMC, DougE Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, Nucleus, Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, I could go on and on and on, Michael Jackson, Prince, and I would think "Where do I fit in? How do I become all of those people to where they say 'You're dope, I like you'?". I had Prince tell me to my face "I love Gang Starr" and I didn't even know he knew who I was! So that let me know that I'm doing the right thing. Rakim saw me with Guru at a bar and he was like "I wanna work with y'all". It weren't even amount the money, we've been accepted by our peers, so we know we're on point because we've been accepted without begging them to like us. Y'know, we didn't have to buy our way in, we earned our way in. Haha! Premo man, thank you, hopefully we can meet up and get you on film next time you're in London! Haha, no doubt homie, peace out! 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