Sitdown With DJ Premier & Pete Rock [VIDEO]
December 26, 2010
DJPremierblog posted this bonus interview from the DJ Premier vs Pete Rock DVD released in Japan. So much history dropped in this hour-long chat. Required watching if you’re born after 1985.
Among other things Premier talks about making the early Gangstarr recordings like “Words I Manifest” “Jazz Music” and how he got out of his first recording contract with Wild Pitch records that “signed his life away.”
Pete talks about making his classic remixes like House Of Pain’s “Jump Around” and they both talk about working on Nas’ Illmatic.
Sitdown With DJ Premier & Pete Rock from DJPremierBlog on Vimeo.
Sitdown With DJ Premier & Pete Rock from DJPremierBlog on Vimeo.
Pete Rock Interview With The Hip Hop Chronicle UK
December 14, 2010
Sumit of The Hip Hop Chronicle UK (www.thehiphopchronicle.com) was backstage in London last night to catch up with the legendary Pete Rock. Pete Rock reveals two artists that will appear on the album with DJ Premier. Rapper Big Pooh and CL Smooth are together on one track. He tells me that he produced the drums of Kanye West’s “Runaway” track (the drums are from Mecca & The Soul Brother). He recounts the first time he met the DJ Premier and explains the 5 albums he is releasing in 2011 including one with Camp Lo and another with CL Smooth. It’s going to be a big year for Pete Rock.
Dee Vazquez Profiles Pete Rock
November 26, 2010
PROFILE: Pete Rock from dee vazquez on Vimeo.
Dee Vazquez continues with her “Profile” series this time getting up with the legendary Pete Rock. Spotted over at Nahright
Pete Rock x 7Union Red Fitted
October 2, 2010
Ok good news first 7Union has dropped their new version of the Pete Rock fitted this time in red. Ready for the bad news? Their site is in Chinese or Japanese or whatever. Anyone know a good translator?
J.Period Talks Pete Rock And Remixes At DJ Hero 2 Launch
September 16, 2010
At the DJ Hero 2 launch party it was only right that legendary producer Pete Rock was a topic of discussion.
Fat Beats Announces Schedule of In-Store Performances For Final Weeks
August 30, 2010
Today marks the official start of the week-long in-stores for the New York location. This location will host artist performances every day this week from 4-9pm until it closes its doors for the final time on Saturday, September 4th, 2010. Additionally, both locations will be selling limited edition commemorative t-shirts, as well as discounted music and merchandise
The schedule for the New York location is as follows:
Monday, August 30th: Artifacts, Da Beatminerz, Immortal Technique, and more
Tuesday, August 31st: Ras Kass, Sav KIllz, DJ Ready Cee, panel discussion, and more
Wednesday, September 1st: Bobbito, Mayhem, Riz, Juggaknots, Sputnik Brown, and more
Thursday, September 2nd: Rob Swift, Torae, DJ Concept, DJ Amir, and more
Friday, September 3rd: Masta Ace, J-Live, Pacewon, Tanya Morgan, and more
*FINAL DAY* Saturday, September 4th: Just Blaze, A-Trak, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and more
Los Angeles residents can expect a similar send-off later on in the month, as that location will remain open until September 18th. The final LA schedule will be announced soon.
The Tweets Is Watching: Pete Rock & Premier Album!
July 1, 2010
Just when you thought The Tweets Is Watching couldn’t get any better with the last post we are proud to bring you this!
Pete Rock & Premo Defrag Interview
June 1, 2010
VIDEO: DJ Premier & Pete Rock Sound Check & Interview @ Liquid Room In Tokyo
May 3, 2010
(props to Nahright)
On Saturday May 1st Pete Rock and DJ Premier celebrated the 30 anniversary of Manhattan Records with a once-in-a-lifetime performance in Tokyo. DVD coming soon.
After the show Premier shows off this prototype Vestax mixer. This joint looks like it’s powered by dilithium crystals or some shit. Damn!
Pete Rock Finally Admits He’s Working With Kanye On “Good Ass Job”
April 8, 2010
At Peter Rosenberg’s Noisemakers last night, Pete Rock finally admitted that he’s working with Kanye on Good Ass Job, after denying it last month by saying he was in Hawaii for “just a vacation.”
[22:15] [Rosenberg: First of all shout out to Kanye for making hip-hop so big that when you hear somebody's traveling to Hawaii, you're like "oh my god." So what's up with this Kanye thing?] Yeah I’m working with him. That’s it, that’s all I could say. [Rosenberg: You went out there to Hawaii?] Yeah, I went out there… He feels like a little brother to me, like my little brother that’s doing it. We got along just fine. He’s definitely hip-hop… [24:10] He takes it to another level. We had these musicians and we did this song. They played around my little raggedy beat and made it real big. [Rosenberg: Did you hear him rhyme?] [Exhales] Yup. I love the way he works. He goes from one room writing rhymes, and then goes to the another room fixing a beat, and then he goes in another room to do something else.
He then talks about wanting to work with Eminem & Jay-Z.
[25:40] [Rosenberg: There's an Eminem record dropping this year too, have you ever had any contact with Em?] I would love to. I never [met him.] He’s a producer too. [Rosenberg: I feel like he could still benefit from Pete Rock. I love Renegade and all, but I feel like he could still..] I love Eminem, I think he’s one of the dopest. Ever. I started questioning Jay-Z when he got at him on that joint. I take nothing away from Jay, I just thought Em’s verse was incredible. [Rosenberg: Why has there not been a Jay record? I talked to him, I know you're one of his favorites and yet there's never been anything. Was there ever going to be anything?] We never worked together, I always wanted to. Actually I gave him a beat that I did for Kurupt, “Yessir”. I was hoping that he used it
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