Today, VIBE.com has premiered a comprehensive interview with Guru’s Gang Starr partner DJ Premier. Since Guru’s death last Monday, Premier has released a written statement and spoke on his Sirius Hip Hop Nation radio show. This is his first full interview released to the public since.
Interviewed by veteran music journalist Keith Murphy, Premier did express not only an interest in providing for Guru’s son, K.C., but the Gang Starr producer said that the group and the legacy remains proudly in tact. “His son should get [the] money [from Gang Starr royalties and publishing, and whatever will be released to come]. Of course I’ll get my half and that’s not on no selfish shit. That’s just off of what we built together.” The Texas-born Premier asserted, “Nothing can take away from what Gang Starr did. That’s what I was stressing to Guru before he passed.” Regardless if the duo’s last album is 2003’s The Ownerz, Premier says Gang Starr never stopped. “The main thing is we never dissolved our Gang Starr contract. We are still signed to each other. We never disbanded the group. If Guru really wanted to super-dead it he would have said, ‘Yo, I want out.’ And I still would have tried to convince him to stay. We are still Gang Starr.
Within the interview, Premier explains living with Guru for close to five years during Gang Starr’s early days. The iconic producer also speaks of the duo’s last known communication, and his opinion of Guru’s later production partner, Solar.
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