DJ Premier Details “The Breaks” On VH1, “Last Session @ 320”, PRhyme Deluxe Edition & More [Video]

We caught up with DJ Premier before Big Shug’s “Triple OGzus” album release party to talk about his work past and present in the industry. We started by going over his relation to Big Shug and how Shug was one of the founding members of Gang Starr. Moving on Premo lets us know more on his history with Boston and how the city embraced him and Gang Starr in the beginning. We go on to get into his production style and why he keeps with what he has been doing despite what the current trend is. Despite trends Premier has the ability to do whats popular but at this stage of his career he wants to do what he loves and continuously makes him happy. Next up he lets us know more information about his upcoming work scoring a VH1 film about 90’s hiphop called “The Breaks” and how he wants to do more work in that particular field. Speaking on his release with Royce da 5’9″ (PRhyme) he tells us how a 5 track Slaughterhouse project turned into the PRhyme album that went on to be released and why it didn’t work out in its original form. While on the subject of collaborations, Premo tells us more details on his often talked about collaboration album with NAS, the upcoming NYG’z album, an MC Eiht Collaboration album, a new album from Khaleel, an up an coming artists A-F-R-O from LA and more. To close out his upcoming projects he updates us his upcoming documentary regarding the closure of D&D Studios which will be accompanied by his first DJ Premier solo album titled “Last Session @ 320” and let us know that there will be “A LOT OF BIG NAMES” but he wouldn’t let us know anyone in particular. To close the interview out he lets us know what we can expect to hear on the PRhyme deluxe edition of the their album and some thoughtful words of wisdom that both he and Guru lived by throughout their career.