DJ Premier on Gang Starr, Creating His Sound and Longevity | Red Bull Music Academy

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Legendary producer DJ Premier talked about Guru, Nas, Jay-Z, digging for samples, working with Christina Aguilera and eating KFC with a naked Notorious B.I.G.
DJ Premier is an undisputed heavyweight champion of hip-hop, a native Texan whose love of hip-hop brought him to New York where he wound becoming a vital part of the music’s golden years.
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As one half of Gang Starr alongside the late MC Guru, and as a producer for established and upcoming talent like KRS ONE or a young Nas from Queens, Premier was responsible for shaping a hard-edged hip-hop sound in the ’90s, sample-heavy and full of incredibly memorable scratched elements.
TOPICS:
5:29 - Early hip-hop
26:31 - Forming Gang Starr
50:54 - The Premier sound
56:28 - Production technique
1:08:54 - Nas, Jay-Z, and B.I.G.
1:17:03 - Longevity
MUSIC:
36:00 - Gang Starr - “Words I Manifest” (Remix) • Gang Starr - Words I M...
57:22 - Gang Starr - “The Question Remains” • Gang Starr - The ? Rem...
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[@RBMA]

If you want to know more about the heavyweight champion of hip-hop, then you're in luck ► www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dj-premier-you-know-my-steez

[@james441]

Damn Premo can TALK lmao .... legend

[@MentalPistol]

Breath of fresh air from people who either seem annoyed by interviews or cant clearly string thoughts together when they speak.

[@mtac9978]

Lol

[@ToniOhNo]

For hours 😂😂💯💯

[@kevinmoore4237]

These are so great. I don't know exactly what Red Bull Academy was but the experience seems to get the interview subjects relaxed and comfortable with the audience so they open up in ways seldom heard in interview settings. Premier especially sounds so real, unfiltered, human and honest and you get insights into the music that you never get with the interview subject is in performance mode. I don't really like Red Bull soda but I've been drinking it anyway just in tribute to this mountain of genius educational material.

[@sgtcreasegrease]

Lol I'm pretty sure the energy drink is separate from RBMA I enjoy a red bull every now and again. People that get pissy because of "promotion" of "poison" are pearl clutching bitches and are seriously missing out on some great interviews. This video in particular is extremely underviewed, WTF?

[@GabREAL1983]

THE greatest HipHop Producer of all-time.

[@luisvazquez6192]

Exactly

[@troyevans9981]

By FAR my brother!!!

[@jacksonhalliwell7621]

Naw that's J Dilla... Premo is a classic and a mainstay though

[@prodbyfranco85]

Top 5 Premier Alc Mf DOOM Large pro Timbo

[@naphtaliaikens2565]

AGREED! But unfortunately his sound the past 15 years has changed and not for the best 🥺

[@themushtube42]

Only 30K views in 4 years? People be sleeping on the real ones.

[@dom2er]

Super dope lecture, so many jewels in there🙏 Preem: 'Serato should be earned...'

[@terrymiller111]

"10 Crack Commandments" is CLASSIC minimalistic boom bap.

[@troyevans9981]

Dude made timeless masterpieces.

[@MentalPistol]

"boom bap" wasn't even a term back then I dont think. We just called them "ill ass beats"

[@merikishtar]

Seen Preem in lots of interviews This is the most different I've seen him Very informative

[@forevershampoo]

Beyond comprehension is one of my favorite weird Premier beats

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

This was a dope interview...premo really knows how to tell a story

[@philliplyn2692]

Pure good vibes 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@knotlock]

LEGENDARY

[@chriscooley7477]

My cuzn Screw told me dat Premier use to work at SOUNDWAVWAVES. Hearin it outta Premiers mouth makes it even more dope

[@MentalPistol]

DJ Screw?

[@Onlythatfunkyshit]

Who would’ve thunk DJ Premiere worked at Soundwaves in Houston? That is insane! 😂

[@login666]

Funny dude, great stories.

[@iiicuuubreathingfullyoohoohooh]

This episode showcases the art, science & receipts of listening, in my opinion. As soon as I saw the same interviewer who interviwed MF Doom I was relieved, cus dude is sincerely here for the ride. I say skip the comment section and press play.

[@jamieeades-1114]

Thank You, Premier (and Guru/Gang Starr)! From Gang Start to Nas, Big, Group Home etc, to MC Eiht solo stuff and all the underground classics your work hasnt left my stereo, ears and soul since the early 90's. Respect!!

[@wsjmusic2732]

This needs to be a movie

[@galedribble9535]

Had no idea Extra P did Eric B and Rakim. Dude is a legend

[@cherylharlin3986]

Love DJ P

[@marcuswitty9004]

Thankful

[@cherylharlin3986]

Love DJ Premier The Tightest

[@khalidsayeed134]

PREEMO

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

One day I wanna go to Newyork and listen to illmatic on ny underground train while looking out the window

[@GoodxJ]

Premo!

[@TheKidJimi]

53:14

[@deadlystylzcal2913]

I love that Premo doesn’t kiss artist a$$. If he thinks you’re aiight, then it is what it is. I could envision him being the type of person that could hear someone tell him that LL said he don’t like him and he’d say I don’t give a f***. 😂

[@DOKKKSTRANGE]

Ice Cream Tee... Philly ❤️

[@kingallah7911]

G.O.A.T

[@phaethon3124]

other people have said that guiliani happened to be in office when crime dropped due to less single moms due to birth control

[@BingeworthyContent]

I have the same birthday as him. LEGENDARY

[@kingallah7911]

RIP GURU

[@marcuswitty9004]

DREAM GOD

[@BennyCalloway]

When was this actually recorded?

[@DaCashRap]

0:10

[@messiahblack4816]

What's with the Host's body language? Yeah Preem is a bit long winded but the host is weird on this episode...I was raised on the Chain and the Starr by the way nothing but love for Preem..

[@loma-uu5mg]

he sounds like he has a cold tbh

[@PyroCham]

I think it's because he set up a bunch of questions and subjects to talk about. Premo was talking non-stop and it was basically an hour of storytelling. Nothing wrong with that, but that's what I think. Besides Jeff is usually like this. Be sure that he has nothing against Premo. They are both on good terms and know each other for many years.

[@lcbutt]

Weed?

[@terrymiller111]

21:00- Karma Rain Storm -- hahahahhahahaha!!!

[@kingallah7911]

G.O.A

[@rustyhornzinstrumentalist-7596]

Big Must Have Looked Like a Back, Kentucky Fried Buddha. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@forevershampoo]

Yea man I miss djs breaking records this new era format sucks

[@wormsali]

Oh Not 2018 Kanye Lol

[@markputnam263]

what were the songs?

[@RBMA]

You can find a full tracklist in the description of the video.

[@alingard1]

THE greatest beat maker ever but alas not the best interviewee..... or interviewer.....

[@KayPeters]

What year was this

[@PrAnG2000]

45:24 - That Missy story just shows her fakeness at that time. What makes it more embarrassing is the fact that she sporting the old school era in dress as if she had knowledge, but then fails to show decent respect to the founding Father Kool DJ Herc.

[@terrymiller111]

46:34 If Kool Herc was Kool HER, then maybe Missy would have been more interested. :-/

[@vladiylouie7732]

Primo gets off topic too much

[@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551]

Did money Say He's 41? He's like 54 lol I'm 43 and he's older then me by more then a decade!

[@2020TYBO]

THIS WAS 2007, 14 YEARS AGO, SO YEAH IT EQUALS OUT..HE'S 55..

[@johngottuso6817]

The early package advantageously share because back inherently encourage failing a vagabond mole. gaudy, cool streetcar

[@PaulOutUrbanArtsBoyWright]

Cool clip and great to hear but come on.... quick with the ‘ ‘Prince isn’t gay he’s got women’. It so doesn’t matter who it is, what they’re into, if the music is good.

[@chip12424]

My man was mad disrespectful regarding newer artist.

[@UncleBenjs]

The kiddy rap guys?

[@MentalPistol]

You had to be alive back in the day to overstand.

[@chip12424]

@@UncleBenjs You sound hella silly. I grew up rocking to Run DMC, Whodini, UTFO, Eric B & Rakim, BDP, PE, NWA etc.... FOH!!

[@chip12424]

@@MentalPistol Quit playing. I graduated HS in 1985 and consider myself a Hip Hop historian. After all, can you say you went to the original Fresh Fes, or Uncle Jams Army shows in LA.

[@rolandmarkland6844]

Premier is one of the greatest, but he did some fuck boy shit lol.

[@2020TYBO]

'IT WAS FRESHLY DONE'..DAMN PREEMO MORBID..

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

Dudes the goat ...his sound is the most authentic hiphop ever I'm a beat maker and I must say keeping authentic is not easy

[@alingard1]

THE greatest beat maker ever but alas not the best interviewee..... or interviewer.....

[@nobiggiejaytiggy584]

andy gone Honestly, you gotta appreciate the real ness of this though, Preem ain’t hold back once and that, at least for me, completes the interview. No one comes for a sentence of response, Preemo did that and then some. The interviewer on the other hand...yikes

[@MentalPistol]

Preme goes into much detail in ALL his interviews and most of all seems happy to be interviewed. Great interviewee my G.

[@danizm78]

so this interview was in 2007?

[@alexortiz6524]

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