DJ Premier Talks Life and Legacy of Prodigy with Sway [Watch]

Super producer DJ Premier called Sway’s Universe last week to celebrate the life and legacy Prodigy.

The interview starts with a Premo telling the story of the first time he met Havoc and Prodigy back in 1993, collectively known as Mobb Deep. Large Professor called him, told him about the duo and said they wanted the DJ to remix their record “Peer Pressure” from 1993 debut album Juvenile Hell.

It just so happened that all of them got harassed by the police on the same day that they met. Adding insult to injury, Premier had an UZI, a tec-9 and “a bunch of weed” in the car. “We literally hadn’t lit the blunt yet, so it wasn’t no smell and I was able to talk my way out of it,” he recalls. “The cop was disrespectful and rude but I still stayed calm.”

When they hit the studio the next day, they did the remix to “Peer Pressure” as well as another song about police brutality, but the label pulled the song because of “the Ice-T situation ‘Cop Killer.'” Instead of letting the song go to waste, they pressed the single up themselves and sold them. “I still have like about 100 of them still in my garage on vinyl.”

See the full interview above.