As he sets the stage for his December release, DJ Premier Presents Year Round Records, the famed producer has also found time to work with others. In what was one of the most anticipated collaborations of the year to some, Premier was meant to work with Kanye West. Unfortunately for those in anticipation, that track will not be on the forthcoming West album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. While that collaborative effort is still on the shelf, the legendary DJ recently opened up to VIBE about other potential projects with West and more.
“I asked him about it at the BET Hip Hop Awards, and he said didn’t get a chance to do it,” Premier said of the track he did for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. “But he said ‘I’m doing the album with Jay-Z, and I need two tracks for that.’ And he even kept hitting me to get more tracks for the album he’s about to drop. But right now, my priority is getting my artists up and running.”
Adding some insight into West’s private hard drive, Premier also noted that he will be doing some scratches for “Mama’s Boyfriend.”
“[Kanye] actually hit me the day before he had to turn the album in to do some scratches on a song called ‘Mama’s [Boyfriend]. We just did it like five or six days ago… They sent me a private hard drive. I had to know certain passwords and go through all these steps to get the song. Kanye even sent me an email saying ‘destroy all the roughs I sent you.'”
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lol @ artists taking 007-esque security measures in this modern era in trying to keep one step ahead of the bootleggers… “destroy all roughs i sent u”
I got this image in my head of a hard-drive sitting in a case behind protective glass like that robot hand in “Terminator”.
LOL holy shit that is funny.
If Mama’s Boyfriend gets leaked, I could see Kanye greeting Premier kissing him on both cheeks saying, “I know it was you Preemo, I know it was you…”
LOL nigga
I see Preemo dangling from the ceiling mission impossible style trying to access the hard drive..lol..
kanye is bustin some heads for these fucken leaks. premos a livin legend.
That track will not be on the forth coming West album, My beautiful Dark twisted fantasy.
He said he didn’t get a chance to do it..but he said i’m doing the album with jay z and i need two tracks for that, and kept hitting me up to get more tracks for the album he’s about to drop…WTF!!!
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I’m not shocked that the DJ Premier produced track with Kanye didn’t make My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy…Actually I expected this to happen because they always do this shit to DJ Premier just like when Premier sent Jay-Z a beat for American Gangster and it wound up going to Ill Bill for Society Is Brain Wash instead…If I was Premier I’d just stick to Year Round records and the next time a mainstream artist like Jay-Z,Kanye,or Wayne asks for a beat I’d tell’em to FUCK OFF!!! Funny that Kanye and Jay did a joint with Pete Rock…Pete should be feeling very very lucky right now that it was able to go down…And watch Premier not make Watch The Throne neither…Premo knows that these niggaz are all talk…I could give a fuck what Kanye or Jay does anymore…Funny that Kanye also said that Q-Tip was also producing on the Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album but that just turned into a silent wind and now there’s no talk about it…Like I said I expected this to happen which is why there was no reason to get excited about this album…I knew it was gonna be all talk from the beginning once Ye’ brought up the names Premier,Pete Rock,and Q-Tip for the album…I think the bullshit mainstream industry has a problem with Premier,Pete Rock,and Q-Tip for some reason…If not then why can’t they seem to make the albums for some of these mainstream cats they waste their hard earned energy and time fucking with only to not have their hard work make the album but rather just tossed to the side…
Son, I fucking feel you.. I think it’s mostly record label politics that makes sure that these guys can’t produce for major label projects. Let’s face it, a DJ Premier or Pete Rock beat is not what the mainstream audience is digging nowadays unfortunately. That and I think Jay-Z and all these cats deep down aren’t digging Premo’s style anymore which is crazy cause Premo helped a lot of these dudes out on their freshman and sophomore albums back in the day. Remember that Nas & Premo album that was announced like 3 or 4 years ago but faded into nothingness?? They even had a cover on Scratch magazine talking about that shit but I think Nas’s move to Def Jam squashed that. I can’t believe that more people aren’t pissed off about that shit.
Oh, and I don’t think Pete Rock’s track is making the album, but at least he made the G.O.O.D. Fridays with “The Joy”. It’ll be cool if Kanye puts out Premo’s beat as a G.O.O.D Friday. But it’s still a smack in the face to the two greatest producers that have ever lived.
lol at kanye with passwords n shitttt .. step 1. destroy all roughs. 2. enter the code ‘fishstick’. step 3 u gota scan the hard drive in a golden crafted mold of jay z’s ass crack
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