Last week my boy K-Wet and I went down to NYC to check out the first installment of Peter Rosenberg’s Noisemakers series, featuring legendary hip hop producer DJ Premier.  It was a very well put together event at the YMHA in Tribeca, set up in a bar/lounge area, with a live band on stage playing Premier’s catalog perfectly (WOW!!!).  Shout out to my dude Borahm who was playing keys, he used to tour with Matisyahu and we’ve done a bunch of shows together.  He actually produced “Victory”, the song Matis and I perform fairly regularly at shows.  

Rosenberg did a great job with the interview, asking questions based off the DJ’s pre-planned song selections.  It led to some great stories of Primo’s work with Gangstarr and such great artists as KRS-One (supposedly there’s a version of “Outta Here” where KRS disses EVERYBODY), Nas, and of course Biggie, which was my favorite part of the interview.  Biggie was the man.  Here’s some footage of him talking about the making of “Unbelievable” and other B.I.G. tales…

After the show, we chopped it up with Cipha Sounds a little (he hosted the event and was wearing the Ferris Bueller Dunks!), and Rosenberg introduced me to Premier, who was mad cool and took my CD to check out.  It was a dope moment in hip hop history for me.  But the funniest thing was running in to Asher Roth backstage!  Hilarious!  I said what up and introduced myself, and I told him “I thought you were gonna come back at me”.  He told me “he doesn’t buy into that”, and we shared a laugh and kept it moving.  Whatever, you should see this guy in person, he’s a nice kid and all but he’s a herb.  He’s always talking about “see me”, but he doesn’t want it when it comes down to it.  Ha Ha!  He can’t fuck with Stan Ipcus!

Check out a review of the event by Time Out NY HERE