{"id":102028,"date":"2016-02-23T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=102028"},"modified":"2016-02-23T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:38:36","slug":"dj-premier-on-how-he-collaborated-with-macklemore-ryan-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dj-premier-on-how-he-collaborated-with-macklemore-ryan-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Premier on How He Collaborated With Macklemore &#038; Ryan Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"102029\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dj-premier-on-how-he-collaborated-with-macklemore-ryan-lewis\/12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n.jpg?fit=405%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n.jpg?resize=405%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n\" width=\"405\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n.jpg?resize=405%2C540&amp;ssl=1 405w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12705523_884239311697174_4420803598348957126_n.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>DJ Premier<\/strong> was involved in the making of <em>Macklemore &#038; Lewis<\/em>\u2019 new single <em>Buckshot<\/em> f\/ <strong>KRS-One<\/strong> and he comments on the tracks creation: \u201c<strong>Macklemore<\/strong>&#8216;s manager reached out to my manager (<strong>Ian<\/strong>) and told him that they wanted me to hook up a scratch sequence to tie in the lyrics that <strong>Ben<\/strong> wrote.  <strong>Ryan<\/strong> did the track and we got on the phone to discuss the theme about their younger days running the streets and tagging graffiti.  <\/p>\n<p>I draw as well so it made total sense! After I sent my parts back, they asked if I knew how to get in touch with <strong>Kris (KRS-One)<\/strong>. I reached out to <strong>Kris<\/strong>&#8216;s wife and since he is a dope graffiti artist as well, he was the perfect choice and he laced the verse overnight. The whole combination made it a complete jam for the history books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <strong>Macklemore &#038; Lewis<\/strong> f\/ <strong>DJ Premier &#038; KRS-One<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Buckshot<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/macklemore-ryan-lewis-ft-krs-one-buckshot\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/macklemore-ryan-lewis-ft-krs-one-buckshot\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pre-order <strong>Macklemore &#038; Lewis<\/strong>\u2019 <em>This Unruly Mess I\u2019ve Made<\/em>, schedued for release on 2-26-16 on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/this-unruly-mess-ive-made\/id1083661690\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Premier was involved in the making of Macklemore &#038; Lewis\u2019 new single Buckshot f\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-qxC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}