THE BOOM BAP Nashville: Featuring DJ PREMIER

ByCase Bloom

The Boom Bap brought DJ Premier to Club MAI in Nashville on July 27, 2012. Another night of classic hip-hop from Case Bloom’s long-running party series.

2012-07-27-boom-bap-nashville-premier attending tickets_button ***In this special edition of THE BOOM BAP we proudly bring you Hip Hop legend…arguably Hip-Hop’s greatest producer of all time…. DJ PREMIER!!!!!!!!!***
DJ Premier is an American record producer and DJ, and was the instrumental half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr, together with emcee Guru. Born in Houston and raised in Prairie View, Texas, he has lived in Brooklyn, New York, for much of his professional career. Rolling Stone identified Premier as arguably Hip-Hop’s greatest producer of all time. The Source named DJ Premier one of the five greatest producers in hip-hop history, while the editors of About.com ranked him #1 on their Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers list. He also made the “Finals” in the search for The Greatest Hip-Hop Producer of All Time by Vibe. Premier is known for producing all of Gang Starr’s songs as well as many of the Gang Starr Foundation’s songs. His work also includes production for heavyweight rappers such as (alphabetic order) Apathy, Big L, Bun B, Canibus, D.I.T.C., Fat Joe, Game, Jay-Z, Kanye West, KRS-One, Lord Finesse, M.O.P., Mos Def, Nas, Rakim, Royce Da 5’9″, The LOX, The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, rock band Limp Bizkit, Big Daddy Kane, Ill Bill, Joell Ortiz, and pop/R&B singer Christina Aguilera, among many others. Premier collaborated with MC Jeru the Damaja on the album The Sun Rises in the East, released in 1994, as well as the 1996 follow-up, Wrath of the Math. Also from the Gang Starr Foundation, Premier produced and supervised Group Home’s Livin’ Proof; although overlooked at the time of its 1995 release, the album has since come to find similar acclaim. Among others in that are closely tied to the Gang Starr Foundation who have worked with DJ Premier include Afu Ra, Bahamadia, Krumbsnatcha, Big Shug, Smiley the Ghetto Child, and NYGz. DJ Premier’s style of production epitomizes the New York sound of his earlier peers. He is known for sampling jazz, funk, and soul artists, as well as sampling an artist’s past work when creating a new track for that same artist. For example, on Jay-Z’s “So Ghetto”, from the 1999 album, Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter, Premier samples an older Jay-Z song, 1997’s “Who You Wit II”. In addition, his encyclopedic memory of hip-hop lyrics allows him to distinctively speak with his hands by scratching in lyrics from several different songs to construct new phrases. Premier’s beats are known for his oft-imitated combinations of short vocal samples, often from multiple artists, to create a chorus. Premier has also experimented with atonal samples that are not confined to soul, jazz, and funk. For example, he sampled chopped up seminal electro-acoustic music from the 1960s on the track “Mental Stamina” by Jeru the Damaja. DJ Premier has his own record company named Year Round Records. Among its artists are New York group NYGz, New Jersey rapper Nick Javas, and Houston rapper Khaleel. Tha Blaqprint by Blaq Poet, which has thirteen Premier productions, was released by Year Round Records through Fat Beats Records. On December 7, Premier’s label Year Round Records released a digital compilation album titled Get Used to Us. At the moment Year Round plans to release a debut album fully produced by DJ Premier with the NYGz tenatively called Hustla’s Union: Local NYG along with a Nick Javas debut album named Destination Unknown. Khaleel, another label-mate of Year Round Records, is planned to release a debut album titled Already!. DJ Premier hosts a weekly 2 hour show Live From HeadQCourterz on SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s Hip-Hop Nation on Fridays. DJ Premier was one of the artists followed in the 2012 documentary Re:GENERATION music project. The film followed his production of the song Regeneration using live performance of his work by the Berklee Symphony Orchestra In a recent interview, DJ Premier said he will produce a beat for Immortal Technique’s upcoming album, titled The Middle Passage. He contributed a song on Game’s last album The R.E.D. Album called “Born in the Trap.” and a song on Bushido’s last album Jenseits von Gut und Böse. In an interview in 2012, DJ Premier confirmed on Shade45 that he is working with Eminem on his upcoming album.
THE BOOM BAP is Friday July 27th at Mai ***THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT*** $15 LIMITED Presale available at www.theboombaplive.eventbrite.com $20 Cover at the door 18+ *Note* $5 surcharge at the door for patrons under 21 To inquire about reserving a table for this event, please email us at [email protected] Also featuring DJ’s: RATE (@DJRate) BOWLS (@MusicCityLiving) CASE BLOOM (@CaseBloom) Special Guest: DJ PREMIER (NYC/GANGSTARR) @REALDJPREMIER www.theboombaplive.com @theboombaplive #THEBOOMBAP attending tickets_button

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