Back in the mid 90’s when it was law for an east coast rapper to get a DJ Premier beat, Chris Martin ended up working with several artists who did not get along. In 1996 Jeru The Damaja released his sophomore album Wrath of the Math, which featured “Ya Playin’ Yaself” and “One Day.” Both DJ Premier produced songs featured jabs at Bad Boy, either blatant or perceived.
When Premier came in to work on “Kick In The Door” for Biggie’s Life After Death, he told XXL what happened in the studio.
“I was blown away by the first verse. Second verse, when he said, ‘Son, I’m surprised you run with them,’ I stopped the tape. I was like, ‘That’s how you feel?’ He goes, ‘I told you I had to get back at your man.’ Just on some real nigga shit, I said, ‘Go on and say what you have to say. I’m going to let that one go.’ Puff was there. I told Puff, ‘You and Jeru had your talk already.’ Big interrupted and goes, ‘Preme that wasn’t a talk, that was an argument. Nothing got solved.’ I was like, ‘That has nothing to do with you.’ He goes, ‘C’mon man, Versace suit.’ I said in front of all of them, ‘Anyone has a problem with Jeru then you have a problem with me, so move on me. Beat me up. I don’t want to get beat up but if that’s what I got to do to show you how loyal I am to my team and that we’re not dissing ya’ll. You’re making a big mistake if you do it.’ I’ll never forget Puff. He was there at Daddy’s House like, ‘Yeah, we’re coming after Jeru the Damaja too!'”
Premier rewound a couple years to the infamous ’95 Source Awards when Suge fired shots at Diddy while accepting an award. “I’ll tell you an ill story. The day after Suge did that at the Source Awards was a New Music Seminar convention. [People thought] that Suge needs to watch him himself because he’ll get jumped in New York. No. We were at a panel with Buckwild and a couple other brothers. Then Big walked in. At the time, [Death Row] wanted Lady of Rage to work with me, I was like, I can’t do it until I get back from my tour. Rage and I were friends for a long time. But Suge’s brother was like, ‘If you can’t do it now, you can’t do it at all.’ We did the songs and they didn’t accept them.”
“Me, Big and Buckwild are kicking it, laughing, chopping it up,” Premier continued telling XXL. “All of a sudden, we hear someone go, ‘You.’ We look and it’s Suge Knight. We were all leaning against the wall. I go, ‘Me?’ He goes, ‘You.’ He comes over and goes, ‘Yo man, I didn’t really like those songs you did for Rage.’ I was like, ‘Yo, I didn’t want to do the songs but your staff told me I had to. I didn’t have time to do it but that’s my homie and I want to be on her album.’ He goes, ‘Don’t worry about [it]. When can yo do some new beats?’ I go, ‘Couple of weeks.’ He goes, ‘Well, Dogg Pound is coming out first so you got another month.’ He was talking very civilized. I gave him a hug. Big walks up to Suge and says, ‘Ayo, I want to get in touch with Dre to do a couple of songs on my new album Life After Death.’ Suge just looks at him and goes, ‘Yeah, aight.’ And walks off.
Preemo done been through it all.
had big gone straight to dre it mightve actually happened. specially after his fallout with suge a year later.
Damn this is like one of them Fredro Starr stories lol
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good reading, always like hearing a vets war stories
Man, real talk, I bet Primo has so many crazy stories to tell, being a veteran who has worked with so many people.
Big walks up to Suge and says, ‘Ayo, I want to get in touch with Dre to do a couple of songs on my new album Life After Death.’ Suge just looks at him and goes, ‘Yeah, aight.’ And walks off.
^^^ ROFLMAO From the sounds of this, Biggie was treated like a straight bitch by Suge.
How was Suge saying “Yeah, aight” make Biggie look like a bitch? You sound confused and fucked up or just straight stupid here with saying that…Biggie asked Suge about hooking up with Dre and then Suge says “Yeah, aight.” and that’s it…Even if anybody was a bitch it was Suge Knight because he was too much of a bitch to hook Dr.Dre up with Biggie and he wanted two black strong sophisticated men in the names of Biggie and Tupac to hate each other and eventually wind up dead so Suge is the real bitch…I don’t see how you can find so much excitement in saying that Biggie was a bitch when he’s dead and no longer here…I guess this is your pathetic way of finding your bruised and battered mind through life by getting excited off of the negative shit as usual just like everyone else always does so I see that you are just a follower when it comes to worshiping the negativity…Which means you must be a Suge dick sucker and this is the man who could care less that Biggie and Tupac are gone…
It felt like Premo put me right there in the room with them. Great story..
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the first verse on “KICK IN THE DOOR” is about NAS.
It was not about Nas, JACKASS. It was about CapaDonna from Wu Tang.
“Y’all don’t know about my Biggie wars/
Who you thought ‘Kick In The Door’ was for?/
But that’s my heart!”…NAS – “LAST REAL NIGGA ALIVE”.
i love it, when clowns diss me, on the ‘net…behind their screen.
now to the person above, who was dissin’ me ^^^^^^^…GO SUCK OUT! silly clown!
@Get Ur Facts Str8- He just made you look stupid…LOL
@ Get Ur Facts Str8:
BIG never went at Cappadonna in the song. He was going at Nas for the “One life, one love so there can only be one king” line from “The Message”, Raekwon and Ghostface for “Shark N*ggaz” and “Ice Water” off Cuban Linx, Jeru for his songs “One Day” and “Ya Playin Yaself” and even took a shot at Premo for producing said Jeru songs. Looks like YOU need to “get ur facts str8”.
Only a few lines were for Nas on Biggie`s 1st verse “ain`t no other kings in this rap thing,they`re siblings…” He was responding to Nas sayin` “there`s 1 life,One Love so there can only be 1 king” from The Message.
No i think it was for Rae and ghostface aswell, because they were calling him out on some biting shit with album covers, true fact
Wait… Big threw shots at Rae and Ghost?…I must have not caught that. Which lines were directed at them?
apart from the dickhead, who tried to diss me, all of the points are valid.
the first line of “KICK IN THE DOOR”, “YOUR REIGN AT THE TOP WAS SHORT LIKE LEPRECHAUNS” was defo aimed at NAS, in reference to BIGGIE taking over N.Y.C. soon after the release of ‘ILLMATIC’.
Don’t you motherfuckers get it? What Premo was saying at the end was that Suge had the chance to hook BIG up with Dre but had no interested in calming the east/west beef. That piece of shit is responsible for the deaths of both BIG and Pac. Like it’s cool for him to enlist an east coast producer to makes beats for his artists, but when it comes to the other way around he straight ignored BIG. Biggie never wanted that fucking beef. He wanted Dre to lace him with some beats and listen to Going Back to Cali. Fuck Suge.
Speak on it bro. Fuck Suge Knight.
That’s real.
didn’t look at the situation like THAT, but actually, you are correct.
SUGE wanted to eat off DJ. PREMIER…but wasn’t looking to help B.I.G.
Tks for the reply….Theres still conscious people around.
“Yeah, aight”…
LOL! Classic. Talk about gettin’ sonned.
I was always wondering how Premo reacted to that line. Great stories from Preem. And LOL at Suge. “Yeah, aight…”
How did BIG get treated like a bitch? Cuz Suge was an asshole? Wtf was he supposed to do? Beat him up for not relaying the message to Dre?? lol.. petty ass nikkas…
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i thought that B.I.G. got sonned/ boy-ed off, too. but actually, ASEE is correct.
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i loved deathrow bck in the day..(era 1992-1995) after that no love. suge done fucked it up for hiphop, check it right, if he would’ve said ok big first lets have a sit down n work out the issues at hand first..who knows how big LIFE AFTER DEATH could’ve been. preme my man since…god forever, 80,90 up till today. i’m happy he finally got his own record company. bck then if pac would’ve just got on a plane n said FUCK SUGE N DEATHROW he still be alive today..real talk. sometimes we just gotta follow our first thoughts that come to mind. n i’m sure pac felt that negative vibe we all feel when things ain’t up to par. imma finish off with this…THE REAL HIPHOP ARTIST,PRODUCERS ARE ON THE COME UP!!!! THE STREETS ARE TAKING SHIT BACK FROM CORPORATE AMERIKKKA. this is hiphopbaby…lastchancenobreaks YAOWWW
so much hate for suge knight…
at the end of the day hes protecting his investment
the west coast was making too much dough off g – funk to just willingly give it up to them new york cats
them NY cats had their own style and discredited any west coast cats who tried to emulate that and when the west reached its height with g-funk dudes wanna hop on the bandwagon? SMFH fuck outta here… what was suge supposed to do
He could have stayed competitive, but not with Pac and Biggie dying for it. Suge a greedy fuckin’ police-cock sucker. It’s moments like this that could have kept these icons alive till this day and we all wouldn’t have to listen to Lil Wayne, Gucci fags and Waka Flocka Flame-Sesame street ass niggas.
yes the west coast reached its height with g-funk, but here we have suge reaching out to nyc to help him out. what was suge supposed to do? well if he ain’t gonna help out the other coast, then he shouldn’t have asked the other coast for help in the first place. hypocritical.
what up first time on here just checked out the premo joint i like much better then allhiphop and yall make good points big was that dude pac was that dude to they just had different paths and suge already had his plan in which he had set in motion he could have looked out on that colab between dre and big but at the the time dre was trying to get from under suge so it still might not had happen and jeru and premo was cool they ran in the same cycle how he would of look let anybody ride on his mans an em yall forget big was real indirect directly to alot of rappers
Yo thats an amazing story! I know Preem has mad stories like that. I wish he writes a book about the stuff he seen & heard thru out the years. JURU we LUV U
why is everyone saying sug killed pac and big?
wheres the proof man you people cant think for yourselves?
a crip killed tupac orlando anderson
wasnt sug a blood?
come on people i love pac but he put himself in direct line of fire..
john potash claims the FBI set tupac up. Thats more believable because tupac had alot of influence in Black america dont put BIG in the same category as him. Pac was a troubled leader of men and BIG was just a rapper…
Word up, BIG was just an MC Pac tried to start a movement only the illuminati cut him short like many other influential black men.
…”troubled leader of men…”?…dont make me laugh…
Wow lol that’s a great story no joke
Your reign on the top is short like leprachauns/As I crush so called willies, thugs and rapper dons/Get in that ass, quick fast like Ramadan/Its the rap phenomenen, don dada, fuck papa/You gotta, call me Frances M.H. White/Intake light tokes, tote iron/Was told in shootouts, stay low and keep firin/Keep extra clips, for extra shit/Whos next to flip on that cat with that grip on rap/The mo shady, Frankie Baby/Aint no tellin where I may be/May see me in DC @ Howard homecomin/With my man capone dumbin’/Fuckin somethin/ You should know my steelo/Went from 10gs for blow/To 30gs a show/To orgies with hoes I never seen befo’ so/Jesus/Get of the Notorious/Penus/Before I squeeze and bust/If theres beef between us/We can settle it/With that chrome and mettle shit/I make it hot, like a kettle get/You delicate/You better get/Who sent ya/Ya still peddle shit/I got my ride than Great Adventure…….. Man I miss BIG, Sorry had to do it may be my favorite BIG verse
yeah, the first verse was sikk…but my favourite line is in the third. it’s soooooo RAKIM-esque (ie., simple….but effective):
“THIS GOES OUT TO THOSE/ THAT CHOOSE TO USE/ DISRESPECTFUL VIEWS/ ON THE KING OF N.Y.”.
love that line!
That ‘reign on the top is short like leprechauns’ line was a shot at Nas…
Good interview,well spoken Premo. I wonder if there will be any disses thrown his way for speakin on the past like Funk flex?
Who was that hip hop journalist sharing the story when he was doing an interview with Wu-Tang and somehow hangin with them on their tour bus or smth before or after the interview where Wu members were seriously discussing about doing smth real serious to B.I.G. without even acknowledging this dude was sitting next to them and actually hearing all that… I remember he told later that he was really worried if he was gonna leave that Wu bus alive that day after witnessing/hearing that – so it was pretty serious between Rae/Ghost and Biggie – Meth was always cool with B.I.G. though
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Interesting interview . Jeru The Damaja was a dope Eastcoast emcee The Sun Rises In The East is a good album . Did not know Jeru and Biggie had beef , alot of shit goes on behind the scens in this rap game . Can’t wait to hear that new MC Eiht album Which Way Iz West with DJ Premier . Geeaah
” ” these are quotation marks.
‘ ‘ these are apostrophes
they have different purposes so as someone whi writes articles PLEASE knw the difference.
This “know” is how you spell know… if you are going to correct someone’s punctuation you should “know” how to spell.
Apostrophes within a quote work as quotation marks within an established quote. So if you’re quoting someone, who is already quoting someone, you would use apostrophes for the quote within the quote. Just 7th grade English.
It’s not important until you lose track of who’s saying what! That’s probably why I don’t read these lame ass blogs too tough. Also why I don’t know what these young ‘uns are saying anymore….they don’t think grammar is important. I’m an English teacher and I don’t think grammar is the most important thing about English …BUT when you don’t even understand people who are born in an English speaking country then you know the Education/Society is f*****!
DON’T watch for my spelling/grammar. I’m under some heavy liquor.