Some bad news, folks: one of the more anticipated collaborations slated to be on Kanye’s upcoming album, a track produced by DJ Premier, never even materialized to begin with. However, Primo’s signature scratches will be found on the bonus track of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, similar to their past team-up on “Everything I Am” off of Graduation. Mikey Fresh sat down with Premier to speak on it:
Premier recalled Kanye paying him a personal visit to play new records from his forthcoming LP, a listening that led to Preemo creating a beat on the spot for the project. While that record sits on ice, the boom-bap master revealed that he did lend his trademarks scratches to a record “Mama’s Boyfriend,” an iTunes bonus from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
“[Kanye] actually hit me the day before he had to turn the album in to do some scratches on a song called ‘Mama’s [Boyfriend],’” Premier says of a record West debuted a capella this summer at the Facebook headquarters. “We just did it like five or six days ago… They sent me a private hard drive. I had to know certain passwords and go through all these steps to get the song. Kanye even sent me an email saying ‘destroy all the roughs I sent you.’”
Hm… maybe that zipped file from back in the day was the album after all. Anyways, you can read all of it over at VIBE, where’s there’s also a video clip as well but I can’t get it to work here for some reason. Oh well.
he’ll be on watch the throne
chief rocka said this on November 5th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
More often than not, hip hop artists over-promise and under-deliver.
sperm said this on November 5th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
oh no it’s bad news. this is affecting my life majorly
Rio$ said this on November 5th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Lol @ Rio$
Jonnie Songz said this on November 5th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
where’s the bad news?
its an itunes bonus track…..
Justanothercrow123 said this on November 5th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Didn’t A-Trak do the scratches on Everything I Am?
Kevin said this on November 5th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
nah, primo was on that track.
Justanothercrow123 said this on November 5th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
How is this bad news tho?!
420 said this on November 5th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
the version without the scratches is on the iTunes edition
Maize said this on November 5th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Premo just needs to collab w Cole
TRUTH said this on November 5th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
one of the more anticipated collaborations slated to be on Kanye’s upcoming album, a track with DJ Premier, never even materialized to begin with
then the blurb says…
“[Kanye] actually hit me the day before he had to turn the album in to do some scratches on a song called ‘Mama’s [Boyfriend]
SOUNDS LIKE A COLLABO TO ME!
BillyClintBackwood said this on November 5th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
It’s very interesting to see how artists try to prevent leaks of demos and so on. Very nice.
Josh said this on November 5th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
This nigga is on some MI5 secret service shit just to protect one song! Only Kanye man, lol.
YaBoyRampz said this on November 5th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
haha at primo being delivered kanye’s album on some inspector gaadget shit
Truth said this on November 5th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
i swear some of y’all niggas can’t read
@Justanothercrow123 & @Maize
Boomerang Slang said this on November 5th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
We just did it like five or six days ago… They sent me a private hard drive. I had to know certain passwords and go through all these steps to get the song
LMAO
Juice101 said this on November 5th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
PREEMO!!!!!!!!! TOP 3 DEAD OR ALIVE PRODUCERS!!!
N0T0RI0USRAMB0 said this on November 5th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Didn’t Primo do the beat on Monster with Kanye? That’s what it said on Wikipedia at least.
timm2014 said this on November 7th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
this saddens me
Dorian said this on January 6th, 2011 at 2:35 pm