MC Eiht Gives Update on Album With DJ Premier

We heard a lot of the supposed full length album between Nas and DJ Premier, but it still hasn't come to fruition after all these years. The Premier collabo album that is sure right now is the one with Veteran California rapper, MC Eiht. During his recent interview with HipHopDX, Eiht said he and Premier are still working on the album, but that it would definitely be dropping this summer.

"It's gonna come out before the Summer ends. Me and DJ Premier are finally finishing it up. We finally got all the paperwork ready and all the music together. We just did a cut with Bumpy Knuckles last night. It's gonna be a fun project, and a lotta people thinking it's gonna be like a total East Coast sound cause of Premier, but it's a real diverse album as far as what's expected from Eiht and DJ Premier. It's gonna be a classic in that form with just some real underground Hip Hop. Premier is in Switzerland right now, but he's got Pro Tools with him. Like I said, we did a cut with Bumpy Knuckles last night and he's mixing it, so we gonna get Rage (The Lady of Rage) on the record and then we got Xzibit and Maylay and we should be good."

This would definitely be dope; and I like the idea that MC Eiht is collaborating with rappers from the old era. I wont say I have heard a lot of MC Eiht's music, but his verse on 'm.A.A.d City' off Kendrick Lamar's GKMC album made me an instant fan. Let's wait and see how things turn out.

MC Eiht List New Rappers He Listens to

Compton veteran rapper, MC Eiht recently spoke on the new rappers that he listens to. During his recent interview with HipHopDX, Eiht said he listens to rappers that tell stories and have substance in their music like Kendrick Lamar, but doesn't like rappers that talk too much about money and strip clubs.





 "If you got good music I'll take a listen,” he says. "I'm not a judge, but if it's about money, money, strip club, strip club then it's like, ‘Come on.' There's a lotta new artists out there that's tryna follow the path of true music, just storytelling. Like Kendrick had one of those albums. You got a Lupe Fiasco and Schoolboy Q and them type of cats. I listen to that type of music, too, but it's still gotta be that type of informative direction of Hip Hop. It’s gotta be some of those avenues for us to enjoy. I believe there's gonna be a time for one of those breakout cats that's just about Hip Hop and not about the glitz and the glam and how many females he got and how many planes he fly, but just music and trying to give to the struggling man or the working woman something to relate to. Hip Hop is about trends and I think eventually that's what it's gonna come back to." (HipHopDX)

MC Eiht Speaks On Collaboration With Kendrick Lamar

West coast rap legend, MC Eiht recently spoke on how he ended up on Kendrick Lamar's "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" album. He was featured on the M.A.A.D City track, and I have to say that that is one of the best songs on that whole album. The story telling, and creativity on the song is classic. For those that don't know him, he is from the early 90s, and he did some cool acting back in the days too...Menace 2 Society. It is great that Kendrick would get him on that album, it really gives Kendrick a good look in the eyes of fans of old school west coast rap. At 45, MC Eiht did a great job on the track.



Read up on how Kendrick Lamar got MC Eiht on "M.A.A.D City"



"Well, Kendrick’s the young generation. And I wasn’t really up on the young generation with Rap, because of the style and the direction they were headed—no realism in the music. So I wasn’t too keen on a lot of these newcomers. 

But, Kendrick reached out to me, through family members. So I thought from just that was respect. He coulda went and got anybody. C’mon, let’s face it, him being on Aftermath and affiliated with Dr. Dre, he coulda went and got Snoop, he coulda went and got Game or Quik or whoever. So, for him to come to me, I just felt [that respect]. 

When I talked to him about the direction of where he was trying to go with the song, and how he was saying his album was basically telling the story of his life in Compton, it was a perfect match. He was like, “When I thought about the song, and I thought about growing up in the city, the first thing people said was you need to get with Eiht. He’s a perfect storyteller. He ain’t never strayed off the path of realism in his records. He’s always represented Compton in that type of light.” So, we got in the studio, and he explained it to me, and then I just came up with my verse. And, it happened to be one of the best songs on his album. 

I appreciated that he came to me. ‘Cause, like I said, he coulda went anywhere but he came here. That was a significant stamp. Because, with him claiming Compton and saying I’m coming from Compton, people look at our type of music as [connected]. (hiphopdx.com)

It was a good look. It worked out good for both of us.