DJ Premier

I love heavy metal, Metallica. I'm into Jefferson Starship and acid rock.

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The Nike joint 'Classic' with Kanye, Nas, KRS-One, that was a remix - Rick Rubin did the original, and his was a double-time tempo; mine was a regular boom-bap tempo, and they liked it so much that we ended up doing the video to it.

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My mom's an art teacher, so I always had music in the house. She always had records, and I was mesmerized by the mechanics of how a turntable works.

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I would always have turntable elements in my records even if it was just one scratch.

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Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that predominantly matches the artist in my 30 years of doing this, it was me walking in and sitting there with no drums, no samples, no nothing, and making a beat on the spot.

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If I feel like something needs to be updated, I'll break my neck to outdo the original.

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You can't do seven successful albums and just hate each other. Our yin and yang, and night and day, is what made us great when we went into the studio.

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