DJ Premier

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

DJ Premier, also known as Preemo, is the stage name of Christopher Edward Martin, an American producer and DJ, born in 1966 in Houston and later raised in Prairie View and Brooklyn. At Prairie View A&M University he was the campus DJ. He formed the hip hop duo Gang Starr with the rapper Guru, with whom he released seven albums, and later the duo PRhyme.

Music and breakthrough

Premier produced all the records of Gang Starr and many by the Gang Starr Foundation, a circle of artists around the group. Among them, in the mid-1990s, were Jeru the Damaja, Group Home and Big Shug. For Jeru the Damaja he made the first two albums, The Sun Rises in the East in 1994 and Wrath of the Math in 1996, and he produced and accompanied Group Home's Livin' Proof in 1995. He also worked for AZ, Common, Drake, Eminem, Jay-Z, Kanye West and J. Cole. In 2010 he founded the label Year Round Records. His own records include Beats That Collected Dust in 2008.

Influence

Premier is one of the most important producers of the New York hip hop of the 1990s.

Listening

Discography

Studio albums

• 2001Time 2 Chill
• 2002Primo's Bakery
• 2008Beats That Collected Dust
• 2011Beats That Collected Dust, Volume 2
• 2012KoleXXXion
• 2023Beats That Collected Dust, Vol. 3 (Instrumental)
• 2025Light‐Years
• 2025The Coldest Profession
• 2025The Reinvention

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• After Hours: Session 4^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Jazz rap GenreGang Starr, with the rapper Guru and the producer DJ Premier, made Jazz Thing in 1990 for the film Mo' Better Blues.

See also

• KoleXXXion
• Boom bap
• Jazz rap