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Fat Joe, DJ Premier Reflect On Guru Tribute ‘I’m Gone’

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘It was done the day Guru passed,’ Preemo recalls to Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid DJ Premier and Fat Joe Photo: MTV News Celebrity Favorites: DJ Premier Man, we were digging in our crates this week and came across a gem. Not too long ago in New York City, Fat Joe had a show S.O.B.’s to celebrate the release of his 10th album, The Darkside, Vol. 1. Mr. Crack brought out a host of celebs, from Redman and Joell Ortiz to M.O.P. and Jeru the Damaja. Moments before the leader of the Terror Squad touched the stage, we caught up with him and DJ Premier. Preemo gave us some insight into a song he produced for Darkside : “I’m Gone,” a tribute to his late Gang Starr partner Guru . “It was done the day Guru passed, April 19,” Premier said. “I wasn’t in the mood to make a beat. Joe was like, ‘My album’s done. I need a closer.’ I sent him one track. He said, ‘That’s not it. Let’s work on something else.’ And it happened to be that one on that occasion. He sent the vocals back. When I heard what he said, I said, ‘Wow.’ ” “Preem on the beat, I know it sounds different,” Joe raps on the song. “But his man’s just passed/ His soul’s just risen/ Cold, cold world was the words I was given/ As I met him 15, with the burner out of prison/ Gangster, f— that, I’m Gang Starr/ Tell Nas hip-hop’s dead/ My man’s gone.” “I was like, ‘Wow,’ ” the legendary DJ/producer reiterated. “Six minutes and 30 seconds!” Aside from his rhymes, Joe talks to close out the song, breaking the regular three- or four-minute song format. “Let me tell you something: Guru’s my brother. Guru’s my friend,” Joe declared. “Gang Starr, most legendary group in hip-hop. Most pure, uncompromised group ever to touch hip-hop.” Heat This Week

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Green Day Recording Live Album

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Band announced live disc at show last week in Denver. By Gil Kaufman Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Photo: Shirlaine Forrest/ WireImage It’s been less than five years since their first official live album, but Green Day are already working on a second one. Singer Billie Joe Armstrong announced at a show in Denver, Colorado, on Friday that the group is recording performances for a follow-up to 2005’s Bullet in a Bible. The veteran punk trio has only released one new studio album since Bible came out, last year’s song cycle 21st Century Breakdown , but Armstrong hinted at the show that the new live disc might contain some rarities when he set up the unreleased gem “Cigarettes and Valentines.” “Hey, I just want to tell you something right now. We’re recording a live f—ing album right now,” Armstrong told the crowd at the Comfort Dental Amphitheater in Denver on Saturday, video of which was posted on YouTube . “So check it out, we’re gonna play a brand-new song. … It ain’t that brand-new. This song is called ‘Cigarettes and Valentines.’ ” The band then broke into the classic three-chord blitzkrieg, which, as Armstrong noted, is not exactly new, but hasn’t officially been released. The tune was recorded in 2003 while Green Day were working on the follow-up to the 2002 B-sides compilation Shenanigans for an album that was supposed to bear the same title. But after the master tapes for the project were stolen from the studio, Green Day scrapped the whole thing and got to work on the disc that would revive their career and make them international superstars, American Idiot. A spokesperson for the band’s label could not be reached at press time to confirm the recording of the live album or provide details on when the disc might be released. Related Photos The Evolution Of: Green Day Related Artists Green Day

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