DJ Premier & The BADDER – BPATTER [Video]

DJ Premier and the Badder wrote “Bpatter” during their second rehearsal as they prepped for six test performances in Japan. While waiting for bassist Brady Watt, trumpeter/keyboardist Tuku Kuroda began playing a keyboard riff and the other members quickly built on top of it.

“Taku started playing this riff, [drummer] Lenny [Reece] joined in and then I started scratching the ‘Let’s Get Down’ line just goofing off to pass the time,” Premier tells Rolling Stone. “But we always keep the tape recording so that we can listen back to an idea that might turn into something later. Then we decided to record it professionally and add on to it and it organically worked.”

The video was filmed in both New York and Hamburg, Germany. Premier tells Rolling Stone that Kuroda couldn’t make the band’s shoot in NYC, so at their opening gig in Germany, the DJ grabbed a “PREEMO” T-shirt from the merch table and had photographer Daniel Hastings film Kuroda in the green room.