And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough… — DJ Premier Being Copy Share Image
From Jay-Z to Nas to Kanye to whoever, I'm just not the type to say, 'Hey, let me get on your album.'… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I'm real particular about delivery. You can write the illest rhymes in the world, but can you deliver it right? — 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
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
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
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
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
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 radio stations strayed away from the raw hip-hop that they were playing in the early 1990s. We were like, 'All this… — DJ Premier Airwaves 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
