DJ Premier Wants to Work w/ Drake & J. Cole

While an actual product would make any fanboy shart himself, Primo has just gone on record saying he’d like to work with the two young artists…

“I saw Drake at the Yankee Stadium [concert with Jay-Z and Eminem for their Home & Home Tour] and he [was] just like bowing and all that,” recalled the beatsmith. “I’m like, ‘Nah you ain’t gotta do that, man.’ And he’s like, ‘Dude, I wanna work with you.’ And I was like, ‘Dude, I wanna work with you.’”

As far as Premo is concerned, Drizzy has earned respect for his skills with the pen blackberry. “He brought lyricism back,” he said of the Toronto-native. “For a 22-year-old man, he brought lyricism back. When [Gang Starr's] Step In The Arena came out, I was 22-years-old. And I just thought about it, I was like, Damn, I was a youngster. I wasn’t 30, 31. I was 22 and coming with heat. And that’s why I like that he’s bringing stuff back.

The Roc Nation MC is also on Preem’s radar. “J. Cole, I like that he’s bringing lyrics back,” he added.

Never hesitant to drop knowledge about hip-hop history, the innovator then added, “Everything doesn’t have to be super, over-lyrical, but we do pride ourselves on cats that can spit, because [rap music] was always a competition about who got the dopest rhymes. – XXL

Wouldn’t that be dope to see happen.

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56 Responses to “DJ Premier Wants to Work w/ Drake & J. Cole”

  1. That could be a great collab.

  2. Take Drake out, put Lupe or any other MC who’s not overhyped and using the laziest punchline delivery of all time in his place.

    YOU HEARD IT HEAR FIRST

  3. Drake over Premo? No Thank You. J. Cole might be dope though..

  4. This could be really huge if they do it right.

  5. And i was like ” dude i wanna work with you, and he was like dude i WAnna work with you! and i was like DUDE wheres my car?

  6. Primo should just do a producer album and have guest features on it… that way it would cater to a larger base.

  7. Hasn’t Drake been on enough for the next ten years??? He’s worse than Lil Wayne with putting his shit stamp on everything.

  8. “He brought lyricism back,” he said of the Toronto-native. “For a 22-year-old man, he brought lyricism back.”

    Fuck

    Outta

    Here! I’m not the only one who thought he was bullshitting that, right?

    Jesus Christ. Anyways, J. Cole x Lupe x Jay Electronic over Premo = Bombs

  9. @rympul nice lol
    J Cole and primo would be (2)dope
    I think promo could get the best out of Drake, so I’d wouldn’t mind hearing something come together

  10. Premo with the heat track.
    J. Cole shitting on any beat he touches.
    Drake would be a nice addition if he wasn’t so garbage.

  11. Drake haters are funny. You guys are giving him the Asher Roth treatment.

  12. if drake does a track with premo, i have no faith left in humanity

  13. If DJ Premier works with Drake, the only reason is money… It’s like the indie actor who goes mainstream… Do an indie movie here, do a mainstream movie there.. DJ Premier, do a Christina record here, do a Blaq Poet record there, do a Drake record here… etc

  14. lupe needs to make a joint wid premo!!!! lupe x j.cole x jay electronica = real hip-hop

  15. I’d rather hear Doom over Premo than any of the above listed…

  16. A Doom/Premo album, I don’t give a fuck if the Mayan calendar is a thousand years off, the world would fucking implode…

  17. j. cole?…cool
    Coffee Cake Drake?……get the fuck outta here!!

  18. Doom is weak.

  19. Doom = weak? Shoot yourself now..

  20. Not a Drake fan by any means.. but I can’t front my man J. Cole + Drake on a Premo beat would be dope as shit

  21. ^LOL @ the comments

    maby it would be dope drake is corny sumtimes but when he wants to he can spit, so lets see..before we judge

  22. Yep, I want that.

  23. For real, on Doom and Primo. But Doom needs to get his shit together, I’m still waiting on Madvillainy 2 and a Ghostface collab.

  24. preme keeps bullshitting….first nas now this shit ?

  25. Drake – I Love Nicki (feat. Rihanna) Prod. Primo

  26. DRAKE MIGHT’VE LOST THE LOVE AND RESPECT FROM YALL BECAUSE HE WENT MAINSTREAM, BUT LET’S BE FUCKIN SERIOUS HERE
    DRAKE>J.COLE
    STOP BEIN SO BIAS AND REALLY LISTEN TO THE SHIT, J.COLE MIGHT HAVE AN EDGE BECAUSE HE PRODUCES ALOT OF HIS SHIT, BUT DON’T BE STUPID.

  27. AND I’M FROM NC, AND WAS BUMPING THE COME UP WHEN IT CAME OUT

  28. rockain is right, though. Put Lupe in there.

  29. J. Cole>>>Drake

  30. J. Cole is better than 90% of rappers right now. Drake…not so much.

  31. rather hear elzhi over primo

  32. Lmao @ people saying he’s bullshitting and deciding on the opinions of another man. You niggas are a joke smh.

  33. it should be j cole and fashawn…but drakes alright

  34. J. Cole? YES!

    Drake? NO!

  35. RIP Guru
    J Cole? YES!

  36. J. Cole lyrics on Primo beats hell yea

  37. its better drake go sing with rihanna or nicki ass ninja instead rappin, cause he’s a piece of shit into that.

  38. also i dont believe j. cole too, though he’s better than all of these new young ass niggaz

  39. Say what Preemo? Forget about Drake AND J.Cole.

    Drake & J.Cole have 1 thing in common. They’re both MAAAAD overrated.

  40. Drake on a premo beat? hahhahahahahaha what he gonna do sing on the shit and rap about being a hip hop gangsta.

  41. J. Cole and Drake are overrated as FUCK!
    When’s the last time Cole made an above average song? The Come Up. And Drake hasn’t made an above average song since So Far Gone and Comeback Season.

    Fuck outta here.

    Get Andre 3k back into the studio and then you’ll hear some lyrics.

  42. rather hear elzhi over primo

    k said this on October 20th, 2010 at 1:27 pm

    ^ COSIGN

  43. I gotta cosign Elzhi over Primo. That shit would be FIRE

  44. nigaz acting like they kno primo….

  45. if Primo said it then Primo said it.. Drake + J.Cole + premier = EPIC

  46. Smh @ all the Drake haters in here. I mean, I’m pretty sure more than half these Drake haters are the same dudes who was kickin’ it with him up until Thank Me Later came out, and he became super mainstream to the point where your friends who are ‘non hip-hop heads’ started saying he was so cool, just like Lil’ Wayne.

    But then again Lil’ Wayne is such a poser with the way he presents himself to modern day society.

    Either way, Drake can spit, yeah he uses some lazy punchlines, but the dude can say stuff and sound like he means it.

    The Drake haters are a bandwagon of their own, of course they’ll co-sign J.Cole, that’s until the dude blows up in mainstream and he’s all over the radio, and all your friends who are ‘non hip-hop heads’ start talkin’ to you about him too. Then you guys are gonna form the J.Cole bandwagon, I mean you can’t tell me Drake’s older stuff wasn’t dope, I mean if it wasn’t for him, music would still be trapped in the mid/late 2000′s with shit comin’ from Soulja Boy and 50 Cent, and that’d just straight be wack.

    Just respect the dude for what he do, and stop hatin’ on somebody that’s makin’ more money than you. I mean he wouldn’t be able to have a career in music if he didn’t have the skills to back it up. I mean he’s one of the only dudes who says his rhymes and sounds like he means it.

  47. Premo should do a track with Lil Wayne before Drake. Now that would be D.O.P.E.

  48. one of drakes lines will be:
    songs with a legendary producer, premo

  49. It’s a business move, really. I mean, first 9th Wonder, then DJ Premier? I see now..

    Dudes would rather sell out making that stupid money then stay true to the game and stick with real emcee’s.. This is some bull though for real.

  50. idc if it’s 50 tyson rapping on a premo beat…yall should be grateful to hear anything that that producing genius decides to put out

  51. 2 be honest this is not a sell out move,its just that, it aint that many great rappers out there out there ,that can showcase their golden age beats .So i approve of this move. i will like to see how they’ll solve this equation tho because Premo’s beats are straight Calculus!

  52. AS FOR PREMO I CANT UNDERSTAND WHY THESE RAPPERS DON’T WANNA WORK WITH HIM FROM JAYZ TO NAS LIKE WTF? I MEAN THIS IS PREMO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHACK BEATS AND HIS NAME IS NEVER IN A SENTENCE TOGETHER SO I CANT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WONT WORK WITH HIM SOMEONE PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME TO THE BIGGER STORY BEHIND THIS CAUSE ITS BEEN BAFFLING MY HEAD FOR YEARS :(

  53. Co-sign siiick,
    BUT J Cole x Lupe x Jay Electronica on a Premo beat FTW!!!!!!

  54. Chiiil,
    You mean the Warm Up.
    That was J. cole’s last mixtape. Listen to that sh*t.
    J. Cole is NOT overrated, get your music gam,e up.

  55. It’s like how Ludacris rapped over a premo beat and he didin’t disappoint me at all. He rapped really good on it i guess it cause premo beats just bring a hip hop sense into you to write a dope verse that evryone can relate to

  56. Beats By DJ Premier + Lyrics By J.Cole & Drake = Instant Classic

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