DJ Premier Interview - Hip-Hop Living Legend

"I saw hip-hop start from day one. Before there was any cutting and scratching...

We came here to play real music for real people ... Check this out, understand this, check this out, we are veterans to this sh!t when it somes to music, we dont fu*k around, we play nothing but real sh!t and you know what time it is ...

Again I go by the name of DJ Premier, and I always bring you the real!" - DJ Premier

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Dice: Yes, yes, Midtown After Midnight, the jump off its ya boy Dice agin blasting of from Club Formosa. Downtown Atlanta, 255 Trinity Avenue. Hot.

DJ Premier: Hot. Real Sweat baby, real sweat.

Dice: Real Hip-Hop heads Im standing Next to a Hip-Hop Legend, mogul, and thats an understatement. The infamous DJ Premier.

DJ Premier: Just maintaining you know. Chilling in the ATL, This in one of the places I try to frequent every now and then. Though I havent been here in while I had to do a birthday party years ago at the Gentelmens Club, chopped it up, got our freak on and the whoe shit, it was beautiful.

Dice: Its very evident, man, your sweating and everything, if your show was like a football game you definately got the dirtiest jersey on the game. I see mad sweat coming down on your face, on your jersey and everything. Now you mentioned the history of music what are your motivations and influences from back in the days?

DJ Premier: Like I said I was brought up on alot of great music prior to Hip-Hop, becoming in rhyme format. Theres so many different ways I can take you to school. But To make it real short and simple, again I am 37 years old I was brought up in the 70's. I saw hip-hop start from day one. Before there was any cutting and scratching it was just the bricks. I played the Commodores, I played Kool & The Gang, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklyn, Temptations all that old classic stuff. I wasnt called R&B it was called soul. It wasnt called R&B. R&B is that bullshit they play now on the radio. I play real shit. And Soul isnt even a category if you look for the records in the store. That stuff they try to cut out and act like it wasnt important. That was the basis of all this Hip-Hop that goes on. You know Sheek, you know...who else I played tonight? ... The Silvers, all kind of things like Bob James, Bran Nubians, you know, Fearless Four.

Dice: You just played underground classics that brothers like myself play loud that are live and dont get the light of day on the radio, ie. Illmatic.

DJ Premier: You cant put those records away and let them collect dust. You have to still bring them to the joint and let them things spin. Thats what I do, I spin those, I spin new stuff, old stuff anything thats real. And if I spin it, its real trust me.

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