DJ Premier is internationally renowned as one of Hip Hop’s finest producers, but it seems that his career wasn’t always quite as glamorous as it is today.
The beatsmith, who has crafted timeless music for the likes of Jay-Z, Nas, and countless others, recounted his jobs as a teenager in an interview with Montreality.
“At 14, I worked at a store in Texas called Kroger. It’s a supermarket. I used to drive a forklift… I started off bagging groceries. I was so fast at that; they needed help back where the trucks unload all the new produce that comes in. So they asked me if I knew how to drive a forklift. I said ‘no,’ they said, ‘do you want to learn?’ I said ‘yes’ because I wanted to drive it.'”
“I worked there ’till I was sixteen, then I started working at Sonic Hamburgers, eatin’ everything. I got so fat, eatin’ every chicken sandwich. If they ordered a chicken sandwich, I made two. One for the customer, and one I’d eat.”
Other jobs included a gig at a record store, which Preme contends got him into the music biz. “You really had to know your music to get a job there. You couldn’t just know a little bit – you had to know a lotta bit.”
Watch the interview below:
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Gotta start somewhere…
before i became a entertainer and story teller i went to university to study criminal justice and then worked as a c.o living a pretty good life in the suburbs of miami.
Hahahahaha…Classic
Oh shit…(shaking my head laughing hard)
i lol’d
so before he was really rich he was still better off than you
Well played sir, well played
Premier aint shit. To be the bawse of this shit.. u gotta be a cop.
LMAO OFFICER RICKKYYYY
I just paid $23,98 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $37,59 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $677 which only cost me $72,13 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentStart.com
haha I know all these places
how the hell he from texas when he only makes NY beat specially for NY rappers ??????? I never heard a Houston rapper on a premo beat, LOL #realtalk
You haven’t heard Bun B and Scarface on Preemo beats, open your ears
bun b- let em know
shoot, it sounds like he had pretty cool jobs growing up.