What Period Was DJ Premier Smoking Crack

[Renegade47]

Preme must of been on that shyt when he made Mass Appeal because that shyt is straight crack

facts cus where the 2 second clip is in the sample is fukking insane.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Watching Premo's "SO Wassup" series has been a revelation. He calls those weird stuttery beats I was talking about "Stabs" where he just takes that one note and fukks with it on the MPC. Unbelievable, for example, he took a single note and put it at different pitches on the pads, and played it out to the rhythm of that "Biggie Smalls is the Illest" vocal sample. And Biggie told him to switch it up for the hook.

 

[Why-Fi]

Preme must of been on that shyt when he made Mass Appeal because that shyt is straight crack

mass appeal was him and guru trying to make something wack and they couldnt even do it

 

[King Sun]

a lot of those north east dudes from the late 80s to early 90s smoked woolies. it seems like it stopped by the mid 90s. i doubt preme went any further than that


"DJ Premier: Um, I don’t think it really ever affected the music, because we would always get that in-sync with one another when we made joints. I even smoked crack and would do coke and everything else and it never changed me. We all did. We were all smokin’ woolas; we’re from the woola era. Like ’85-’86, not everybody but a lot of people in the industry were doing it. Even when I ask other artists, [they admit it]. I wasn’t a pipe smoker, I didn’t smoke the stem; we’d put it in a blunt. But it’s still crack. [Laughs] But it never affected my creativity either way. I’ve never been ashamed of anything I’ve ever done because it is what it is. You never saw me walkin’ around with my teeth missing, selling my equipment, or all skinny and falling apart. We looked normal, and we weren’t on it like that. It was more recreation—a new way of spiking your weed. I’m off of it, I been off it. You get to a point where you’re like, “This ride is over.” None of us had to worry about going to rehab or anything like that. It was never that serious. In the music business, drugs, sex, R0ck & Roll, it all goes with the same territory."

makes sense but dude was talking like he was still doing it in the 90s. Its just interesting to me because his early production definitely sounds cracked out in a good way

 

[pawdalaw]

I'm guessing that it was after hard to earn. When Guru was going on that jazzmatazz run. There was a lot of tension between them but they kept it on the low. Also the reason it was such a long wait for full clip. Solaar had all the opportunity to put the bug in his ear about Preme while feeding him alcohol.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Primo smoking crack was one of the most surprising hip-hop revelations to me. Not just cause it’s Primo but cause crack isn’t really a creative musician’s drug.

 

[NZA]

Primo smoking crack was one of the most surprising hip-hop revelations to me. Not just cause it’s Primo but cause crack isn’t really a creative musician’s drug.

allegedly, atomic dog's backward drums came from george clinton being too high off crack to correct the mistake

 

[Heavy_Handz]

That beat on Brownsville is fukking ridiculous. One of the grimiest beats ever

 

[Dad]

Damn this is new. Great thread

 

[LevelUp]

 

[wizworld]

Primo smoking crack was one of the most surprising hip-hop revelations to me. Not just cause it’s Primo but cause crack isn’t really a creative musician’s drug

A "primo" is a marijuana joint laced with crack.

The info was right under our noses all this time lol

 

[Art Barr]

a lot of those north east dudes from the late 80s to early 90s smoked woolies. it seems like it stopped by the mid 90s. i doubt preme went any further than that


"DJ Premier: Um, I don’t think it really ever affected the music, because we would always get that in-sync with one another when we made joints. I even smoked crack and would do coke and everything else and it never changed me. We all did. We were all smokin’ woolas; we’re from the woola era. Like ’85-’86, not everybody but a lot of people in the industry were doing it. Even when I ask other artists, [they admit it]. I wasn’t a pipe smoker, I didn’t smoke the stem; we’d put it in a blunt. But it’s still crack. [Laughs] But it never affected my creativity either way. I’ve never been ashamed of anything I’ve ever done because it is what it is. You never saw me walkin’ around with my teeth missing, selling my equipment, or all skinny and falling apart. We looked normal, and we weren’t on it like that. It was more recreation—a new way of spiking your weed. I’m off of it, I been off it. You get to a point where you’re like, “This ride is over.” None of us had to worry about going to rehab or anything like that. It was never that serious. In the music business, drugs, sex, R0ck & Roll, it all goes with the same territory."

This is disco era ol school way of thought mentality.

Before they gave us shawties in my generation the slide rule. For the say no to drugs campaign. No one from the disco era knew the danger they were in. Using peruvian to freebase to then crack.
Which is why the Crack epidemic is the plague that it is to america moving forward.



Art Barr

 

[Piff Perkins]

No the beat is just weird and twitchy

That was deliberate though. He started incorporating different sounds and samples into shyt in 1994 (Hard To Earn) to evolve beyond jazz samples. Listen to the Jeru albums...lots of cool, weird sounds.

I actually prefer that era of Premo before we got into the standard "Premo beat" era of his shyt sounding more distinct.

 

[MurderToCassette]

Interesting aside, this was made on an MPC 3000 vs Premiers usual MPC 60/S950 combo

 

[Heavy_Handz]

We need an episode where Preemo let’s us know what beats he made high on crack mixed with weed