A: DJ Premier
(Q: What supa-star hip-hop producer shares a name with a celebrity-husband rocker?)
DJ Premier is a high priest of hip-hop, simply put. From all corners of the culture, hip-hop’s Christopher Martin gets maximum respect. That’s because everybody sounds like a god MC (or at least like a good MC) on a Premier track. For milk carton candidates like Group Home and Jeru as well as platinum-plus legends like Nas and The Notorious B.I.G., Primo beats guaranteed instant classics. Even Christina Aguilera got blessed with an almost classic.
Jay-Z, who has some Premier classics of his own, apparently has so much respect for Christopher Martin, that he added another one – aka Coldplay’s lead singerdude, Chris Martin – to his stable of collaborators on Kingdom Come. Although that was not Jigga’s finest offering (life is like a beach chair??), and needed more of the first Chris, less of the second Chris, Mr Gwyneth Paltrow is like, totally cool with us.
Dope would be if Premier did a song with Coldplay, or remixed some of the band’s hits. We only draw the line at stuff like this…
While you try determine exactly what Ray J was thinking about, please enjoy the classic sounds of DJ Premier:
My Favorite DJ Premier Beats (Part I)
My Favorite DJ Premier Beats (Part II)
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