DJ Premier Sits Down with Prince Paul

You can listen to the full episode HERE.

QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE:

“There was a little controversy with Lil Uzi Vert from Philly… and everybody was like, ‘Yo, man, he needs to be smacked, he needs to be this and that’ — they were saying because he wouldn’t freestyle to “Mass Appeal” when Nero put the beat on for him. First of all, Mass Appeal’s not really a beat you throw on to freestyle to. Back when ‘Come Clean’ was out a lot of people were like, ‘Yo throw on the ‘Come Clean’ beat!’

There’s just certain records that you put on to spit to if you’re gonna put someone live on the radio. ‘Mass Appeal”s not one I would choose, either, that’s just a dope record that we did. Out of our Gang Starr catalog that was one of our biggest hits, but that doesn’t mean that that’s what you rhyme to.

He said, ‘I don’t wanna rhyme to that.’ Then everybody was saying it was disrespectful. One day someone said something on Twitter and added him on Twitter and I jumped in and said, ‘Hey he doesn’t have to rap to anything I do. He can make whatever decision he wants. If he don’t like it that’s fine with me, I’m not upset about that.’ He responded and goes, ‘Hey OG, I don’t know why everybody’s taking this out of context.’ He said if it’d been ‘Full Clip’ instrumental he would have rapped to it. And I was like, ‘Wow’.

So then after that he DM’d me and was like, ‘Hey man listen, you my OG, anything I can learn to get better just let me know, here’s my number.’ And so I responded, I wrote on Twitter, ‘Yo shout to Uzi Vert. We had a dope conversation’ … We had a conversation, it was healthy, and on top of that, he’s willing to learn.” –DJ Premier on perceived beef between him and Lil Uzi Vert

“A cool thing about pairing us together [is] we’re both hip-hop but our styles are so different… But we both trail-blazed in what we did.” –Prince Paul on the Talkhouse pairing him and DJ Premier to talk

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