I was looking at them the guy had his turntable set up. He took me to the Yankees’ game and after that he always took me to Time Square and we saw these kids breaking.Īll the B-Boys. I used to be fascinated how he could be playing that real good. He had a band and played guitar, trombone, trumpet and bass. He was really into the baseball he was also into playing jazz music and stuff. I went to Brooklyn to stay with my grand father for the summer he always took me to the baseball game. P: First time I discovered it I was like ten or eleven years old. She was into the hard stuff, she was really into Van Halen which was a big deal too.Ī: So when and how did you discover Hip-Hop? So I was into The Eagles, Carly Simon, Osmon Brothers, The Bee Gees. P: I had two older sisters so they were also into their music, my older sister was into a lot of rock music. There was a lot of creativity in the house.Ī: So you were always listening to music? She’s a type of person that used to play of lot of different music while she was painting. When I grew older I got more serious into music. I was just real fascinated by that as a child. So I was just fascinated by that and the music sounded the way the label looked. I was into the mechanics somehow the needle’d move and the record would drop and land right on the record and the way the logo look while it spun around. As a kid I’d fix everything in our neighbourhood and everybody knew me as the fix-it man. I was into the mechanics on the machine I used to take our television apart, hook it back up and everything. Back then we had automatic record player my mother stacked five records on the player and hit the reject button and all of a sudden the shit just actually cut the lights off. As a child I was fascinated how the record spun around. There was just that stuff.Ī: Did you start collecting vinyls when you were young? Anything from Motown which will be The Temptations, Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, I liked Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Grover Washington, Booker T & The Mg’s, Bar-Kays that’s all we had we didn’t have no. From his teenage years in Texas to his legendary career as one of the most iconic hip-hop beatsmith, Chris Martin A.K.A DJ Premier takes a trip down memory lane.Ībcdr Du Son: Growing up in Texas what kind of music were you listening to?ĭJ Premier: All the standard stuff before Hip-Hop.
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