So Wassup? Episode 30 | Showbiz & A.G. - "Next Level (Remix)" 

"Brothers Can't Believe How The Skills Have Gotten" - Diamond D Salute to Showbiz & A.G. !!

That Dilla tee is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

One of Premo's best beats ever!!!

The original beat produced by Showbiz was fire too. Both versions are equally dope.

Greatest Hip Hop producer of all time.

What Showbiz and AG did on that beat should be joyously celebrated by all Hip-Hop heads

When A.G is on point, he outshines almost every other Mc in the history of microphones!! Dope beat to.. !!

One of those rare occurrences where the LP and Remix versions are equally on point.

Mann when this track came out the streets of of Chicago was literally lit 🔥 & this track was being played at all the underground hip Hop parties & hip hop night clubs & cars & suvs wit the subwoofers 🔊 Unbelievable track & vibes salute to ALL the D J “s who know there hip hop & played this flame 🔥 track 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

That whole Goodfellas album is pretty damn underrated I might add . Showbiz took it to a whole other level with the beats with this one with the dark jazzy samples and ill ambient noise. Straight classic which I still listen to regularly to this day. Premiers remix fits perfectly with the vibe too.

DITC is the most consequential east coast crew when it comes to hip-hop. Shoutouts to Buckwild who really got me into beatmaking and the love for loops. Legendary fellas, legendary beats, legendary album.

94 was a great year. This is still one of my favorite joints. I've played this on repeat MANY nights just zonin.

Next Episode : "So Wassup? Dj Premier about Dj Premier - how he managed to make about 1000 dope-ass Tracks and people still think Dre is the best Producer"

Thank you, Showbiz for showing Preemo how to chop it up! Respect!!!

So blessed to be old enough to grow up in 70 80 90 to real music

I grew up on Show & AG…still have my Runaway Slave cassette & Goodfellas vinyl. Underrated classic group 🕸👊🕸

I can’t call it. I always loved both versions. I also wish Showbiz never stopped rapping. He was great on the mic!

Seminal , timeless, undisputed classic. You really are one of the greatest producers of all time. IN ANY GENRE!

I would love to hear the story of "In memory of" but i can understand if its to hard to talk about that, always brings tears to my eyes

Showbiz & AG…..legendary status like Gang Starr #salute

3:44 - the original. This song was so artfully done

Now here I go again/Ready to flow again, and if the coast stays clear/Hell yir, I'm still going in/Get it together, or you B laying on a stretcher/I bet'cha, Imma get ya, the number one heart-stresser...!!! n_n

Showbiz and AG are BX finest!! Very underrated in the culture of Hip-hop. This is one of my favorite premo cuts!! 🔥🔥

D.I.T.C. forever. Showbiz blessed me with my 1st placement. Always got love for him and the whole crew

Love this joint. The clean version is super dope with the sound effects.

This episode is a precious lecture 🔥

10:41 - the preamble to this part explains something that baffled me for years. The off-kilt timing was a result of how to start the song properly because of the 2-inch tape. I always wondered how did such a beginning get conceived. The technology determined the output.💪💪💪

Every video on Showbiz & AG that I comment on I always make mention of them being underappreciated. Showbiz is one of the creators of the 90's boom bap sound and should be held high on the greatest producers of all time list. To me he's the 2nd best producer in DITC after Buckwild. I wish Show would have done more collabs with big artists. Imagine if Show would've had a joint on Illmatic? AG is criminally underrated and a big underachiever. AG was dope back then but has gotten better over the years but he never reached the heights as his peers. It sucks that they don't get the recognition they deserve as a dope emcee/producer

You can tell Preemo was excited fr this one . He wrote all over that floppy. This is definitely one of my favorites but then again so is anything Preem touches. That’s crazy Showbiz taught u chops. Respect! “Show kept on digging digging and now he got more crates”👑

Preemo is the living embodiment of hip hop. The guys from this era are superhuman. It is plain to see why music is in the state it is now. It is incredible how such a short era in time produced a seemingly endless amount of amazing hip hop.

Growing up listening to this music, I never thought that years later I would be sitting on my porch 👀 Preem talk about these tracks and how they were created, this shit is absolutely epic.

R.I.P Guru, Preemo I love you man, thank you for educating us and giving this master class on hip-hop.

Been waiting patiently for this one. Preem, you’re a living legend.

Both versions are sooooo incredible!

One of my ALL TIME FAVORITE BEATS. For madd years just be hummin it to myself while just meandering n whatnot lol

Show kept diggin and diggin and now he got more creates 🔥

AG is super underrated. You look at someone like him in his prime and compare him to underground hip hop today. WHAT A FALL OFF

Premier is right. Whenever his drops in the clubs, it always has that essence that just captures you. The recital of the lyrics come back, the call and response. You just feel the vibe and the mastery of how this was laid. It's very similar to Black Star's Respiration whenever that banger drops.

Best follow up to the Runaway Slave album.

I recorded the video off Video Music Box one day after school and Ralph McDaniels, the creator and host of that local NYC video show, didn't over-play it. So once I had it on VHS that was my treasure. I was familiar with the song before that but this remix blew my mind! They shot parts of the video at The municipal building across from City Hall. It's where the Manhattan bridge bike path lets out. Me and my friends used to ride our bikes from Fort Greene in Brooklyn to that area almost everyday all summer cuz there was nothing else to do when you were 14 or 15. So I recognized the building immediately. See what just hearing that sound brings back?! It activates some good, strong memories. The power of music. Anyway, Primo's remix it's so timeless and distinguished that when I play it in the car, even my kids stay quiet THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SONG! Hip Hop, even the good stuff, doesn't sound like this anymore! There's a lot of pausing and grunting between 2 rapid fire bars. Then they say 4 words and growl or grunt again. Repeat 4x then another rapid fire flow for 4 bars, rinse and repeat. And with those tippitt-tippity high hat & overly bassy beats, everything sounds like it belongs in a down south strip club. But this type of expertly crafted, continuously rhythmical rhythm and rhyme flow are rare nowadays, except in the underground scene. This beat and AG's lyrics and flow epitomize the best of what hip hop can be. If this were released now it'd be as big a game changer as Luther's stripped down R&B classic, Never Too Much, which basically closed the door on the whole funk era of the late seventies and opened the 80s up to a new era of R&B dominance in the 80s. Beats and rhymes like this, but updated in some way by a young MC who understands his generation, would bring NYC and the whole Northeast (Jersey, Boston, Philly, Connecticut) back to prominence in the game!

DJ Premier is like that really cool uncle you like hanging out with

Repping the J Dilla shirt nuff respect

hell yeah i played the hell outta this song, Pure Magic!! 🔥🔥

The Remix BLOWS The Original Out The Water. Completely. WHEW!!!!

"Battle" is the HARDEST song on the 8mile soundtrack 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

AG 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I aint gonna lie I appreciate the fact the premiere is breaking down studio times. The track makers are the true story tellers not the artist in all genres.

“People can’t believe how the skills have gotten” CERTIFIED BANGER!!!!

A.G's bars on this is one of the greatest on a hip hop track

Another Premo banger. And shout out to the original, which uses the same Wes Montgomery sample as UGK "Ridin' Dirty." Who do ya'll think used it better? I have it dead even

Salute the Floppy Disk. I look forward to So Wassup. Next Level one of my favorite Preemo Beats. When I listen to it I have to put it on repeat a few times. Show & AG are Legends. AG is underrated dope original flow and very witty. Salute to DITC 🔥🔥🔥

This beat is special. Which only makes sense for him to go in depth with it. This is one of my favorites.

Man I love the twists in Premo's stories. Because they always take things to the next level. The 8 Mile story just adds more strength to the record. Which is super duper dope.

One of the best hip hop songs to ever exist s/o to AG very very very underrated

Got this on MAXI single back in the day. Yes MAXI SINGLE!! Lol.. One of the best HipHop classics ever produced; BOTH versions are timeless.

one of my favorite beats of all time easily. the swing is wild to this day

My GOD I love this track. The original AND the remix!

Showbiz and are one of my favorite group . Thanks Primo for the awesome beat.. my top five groups are: Gang Starr, A Tribe called Quest, EPMD, mobb deep, showbiz and AG

Criminally underrated duo. Showbiz is definitely one of my favorite producers that doesn’t get a lot of credit.. AG was nasty with the punchlines as well. DITC 4EVA. Peace to Preem. Glad they chose you for the remix… original was dope. Goodfellas LP was ILLL bro. That remix is just something special. Peace! 🔥

Love this beat so much. I ain't gonna lie some of the technical talk in this episode went over my head. We're truly spoilt in the DAW era lol.

This is the era I started making beats on my MPC60II, I love seeing these disks, samplers 2-inch tape, and these classic stories. This is one of the dopest HipHop beat intros of all times, I had beat juggle routines with this one! Salute and respect!

One of the greatest hip hop tracks of all time. I think it's the best

I won’t hold u but I like the Show & AG version better. But that’s not to say that the Preemo version wasn’t complete 🔥. The remix has a different feel; smooth and vibe-like. The Showbiz version has that Thanos neck snap. Shout out to all pioneers, Premier, Showbiz and Andre da Giant! Love it!!!

Lotto SMOKED B. Rabbit, got him outta there! 😂 They robbed that man. 💯

My old head used to play this in his Isuzu trooper all the time! Andre is STILL one of the best MCs. The original version is dope as well- shouts to showbiz.

hittin like even before i finish it...i hear that intro drum fill already in my head

This beat solidified Preem as The GOAT

So every tuesday I wake up really hyped and excited for what's coming at the end of my working day. Based on Primo's discography I hope this goes on for weeks, months and hopefully years!

Forgot to mention the classic Lox freestyle off DJ Clue mixtape to that instrumental they also performed it at the versus when they destroyed The DipSet

I played the original version on my show 2 weeks ago. Both versions are bangers! One of my favorite Preemo beats and Show and A.G songs

I firmly believe the OG version produced by Showbiz on the SP and Preemo’s remix made on the S950, are equally so ill in their own unique way.

One of the dopest beats ever in hip hop history

that was a dope one... personally, i am looking for: group home - up against the wall (get away car mix)... this piano sample and beat gave me straight goosebumps when i first heard it, and is still one of the best preemo beats ever, imo. hope it comes soon :) peace, dj skeli

One of my favorite joints of all time.

One of the illest beats....EVER!!!!!!!

I just, just, JUST, got on Showbiz and A.G. I never knew how dope AG was so dope. Don't beat me up too much.

Goodfellas album is a instant classic! Shouts out to Showbiz & AG

"Cuz I'm a cool cat just like Heathcliff! Peep this, give up the loot!" Andre the Giant is so ill!! 🔥

One of the most iconic beat in Rap history

A True Timeless Classic!!!

The Bronx ✊🏽 Also that dilla shirt is fire.

Got this on 12inch. Classic classic ish!

This is in my humble opinion the best ever Preemo beat

Show and AG are legends. One of my all time favorite tracks. I love the Freestyle LOX did on it too 🔥🔥🔥💯

When this song dropped on your Mixtape🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✅. Great Times…. The Essence ✨💫✨

STILL GOT THIS ON WAX, one of my favorite show and ag jpoints, both mixes, memories....

This was my favorite episode by far! DITC is my favorite crew

Definition of Masterpiece.

“All I see is blinking lights….” Remix is sick!

Yo Preem tell us about “Crush” by Big Shug …dat beat still sounds so futuristic

LOVE THE "DILLA DAY" SWEATSHIRT!!!!!!

Preem the only OG that speaks to us about the technical aspects of his production experiences. For those of that make beats that shit is so much appreciated

Show & AG are the GOATS

Just wanna comment on the phrase in his prime. Andre the Giant never got out of his prime. He will bust your favorite rappers ass today right now if put in the same arena. If your pen is nice you never get out of your prime. Taste changes but skills live forever

This is crazy….man no one can’t tell me this man created a whole genre…..crazy.

🗣 Da LOx killed this IYKYK 🔥🔥🔥🔥

This cut along with 5 others I heard others use different instrumentals on by underground producers. Very very very ..classic joint from the day. Showbiz And A.G. Artifactz AllCity and Organized Konfuzion were the groups you waited for to hear those rare samples flipped to classics Shout-out to Preem & D.I.T.C squad. I'm sorry Preem but Erick Sermon is still that dude on the box

The original version was a classic in itself. Hard to top that.

The legendary Preemo does it again with the dope history and breakdown. Showbiz & A.G., some of the best that ever did it.

Hearing the explanation for everything makes me appreciate it all so much more. I think I speak for everyone with that. You are a wizard Premo! Respect