My crew used to listen to 'Taking It to the Top' by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I use whatever it takes to make the tracks identify what me and Guru are all about. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
All my idols have been in the studio with me, because they wanted to be there. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It's like 45 minutes outside of Houston. — DJ Premier Houston Copy Share Image
I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity. — DJ Premier Art Copy Share Image
I always followed my heart and if my heart said I gotta pack up and go, I'm gone. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I love heavy metal, Metallica. I'm into Jefferson Starship and acid rock. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I listen to my early Gang Starr interviews, I'm like, damn I was really trying to sound like a New Yorker then. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Guru always titled the Gang Starr albums. But once it came to 'Hard to Earn,' he wanted me to title it. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I think the fact that Gang Starr kept getting more and more successful was the reason we never thought about our age. — DJ Premier Age 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
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
I used to lie about my age at first because you always want to be 18, but then you start looking at… — DJ Premier Age Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to work with Klashnekoff. He's been around for years! He's sorta my age but he is dope. The flow,… — DJ Premier Age Copy Share Image
If you don't have any Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme' will do it for you. It will explain everything. Even if you don't… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Prince, Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire and Parliament all had albums that sound different. I wanted to show, as a hip-hop… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Guru died tragically and there were so many rumors about how he went out. I got to see him in the hospital… — DJ Premier 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 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 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'm all about competition; still am to this day. That's how you should be, but not with any malice. From Mike Will… — DJ Premier Competition Copy Share Image
I've been sequencing all of my albums, from any Gang Starr stuff to Jeru to Group Home, all of it. I pay… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I remember Bumpy Knuckles came in wearing all mink everything and said, 'Yo, when I spit my verse, I gotta pull my… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
If I gotta do a Jay-Z beat I want to stop everything. Tell everybody hold my calls, everything. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Anyone from our era knows that Guru was in every club and every bar and every spot. He could go all night,… — DJ Premier Day 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
