Category - DJ Premier

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I’m not really a comparison dude. Even when people say ‘Big or Pac?,’ because they’re two totally different types of lyricists.

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I get up early all the time.

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I like showing versatility.

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I’m a big rock ‘n’ roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I’m still black and funky.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I would always have turntable elements in my records even if it was just one scratch.

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If I feel like something needs to be updated, I’ll break my neck to outdo the original.

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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.

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Guru’s like Tupac. He just records and records and records.

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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.

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