If I feel like something needs to be updated, I'll break my neck to outdo the original. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I'm not a tough guy, but I'll throw down just like the rest of them if I have to. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Everything I do is in a New York state of mind. I'm indebted to preserving the sound of the city. — DJ Premier City Copy Share Image
I'm cool with Dr. Dre, I have his phone number, and he picks up when I call. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Actually, for 'Family & Loyalty' I wanted Drake on the track but he was about to go on tour for his Scorpion… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I'm known for taking a long time getting music out, partially, my schedule is bananas, I'm only human, and then on top… — DJ Premier Human Copy Share Image
Guru and I had a house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for a while and we used to have wild parties there when… — DJ Premier Brooklyn Copy Share Image
Dre is someone I've looked up to since 1985 when he came to my college and performed with The Wrecking Crew. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a… — DJ Premier Art Copy Share Image
I've always cared about how certain songs fade into other ones and which songs should follow others. I studied that as a… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I say if you don't write your lyrics, then you can't be the best rapper alive. Not at all. You can be… — DJ Premier Alive Copy Share Image
Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that. — DJ Premier Fashion Copy Share Image
The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me to not make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
The passing of my accountant, Mary Coleman, who was the first person I shouted out on 'In Memory of...' was particularly devastating… — DJ Premier First person Copy Share Image
The main thing is we never dissolved our Gang Starr contract. We are still signed to each other. We never disbanded the… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I don't want to follow the map of what the music industry does because I've already lived the industry and I still… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
The ghetto music of my era is hip-hop. And Parliament, and Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye, that was all the ghetto stuff… — DJ Premier Ghetto Copy Share Image
I don't have session players come in and guitars, I'm doing the drums, I'm doing the scratching, I'm doing every sound you… — DJ Premier Drums Copy Share Image
Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that… — DJ Premier Art Copy Share Image
The Nike joint 'Classic' with Kanye, Nas, KRS-One, that was a remix - Rick Rubin did the original, and his was a… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about music in general, not just hip-hop. But when it comes to hip-hop, I don't wanna see it die culturally. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
The majority of my life is spent doing nothing but godly things, especially when it comes to dealing with other people. — DJ Premier Godly Copy Share Image
It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Jay Z and Biggie and Nas always listened to my direction. They listened and they applied it and I also listened to… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
A lot of Friday nights, Guru and I would go kick it with Biggie, since he was just three blocks down from… — DJ Premier Friday Copy Share Image
With 'Family and Loyalty,' I didn't already have an idea for that video. So I called Fab Five Freddy. I wanted to… — DJ Premier Cinema Copy Share Image
I don't shop beats. That was never my method coming up. I think it's very strange to have a CD of 30… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Travis Scott's dad was one of my OGs when I was a kid in Texas. Obviously Travis was nonexistent yet because his… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I'm not really a comparison dude. Even when people say 'Big or Pac?,' because they're two totally different types of lyricists. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Guru had such a different voice from most people. Plus he had a Boston accent! So, I always made sure the beats… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times,… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
You can't do seven successful albums and just hate each other. Our yin and yang, and night and day, is what made… — DJ Premier Day Copy Share Image
I don't usually collab with producers, because I don't need to. I never have, because I don't want to break my style… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I've done some scoring in the past, but I want to get into it on a bigger level - a Danny Elfman… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
When I got my knee replacement and I opened my eyes straight outta surgery, the first person standing there was Guru's son. — DJ Premier Eyes Copy Share Image
