New York’s D&D Studio is the partial home of Biggie’s Ready to Die, Nas’ Illmatic, and most consistently the output DJ Premier and Guru, who made it their center of operations for the bulk of the 90s. A genuine hunk of that rap shit.

“There’s nothing wrong with you cashing in on winners, but you gotta know where it comes from and understand it and everybody can be happy and get paid.” Some context:

DJ Premier posted a bunch of classic, rarely seen videos revolving around D&D (now renamed HeadCquarterz by Premier and Charlie Rock). Two notables: footage of Craig-G, writer of many of of the freestyles in 8 Mile, and some video from a party they threw and filmed for a press kit in support of The D&D Project. It was called 40’s and Blunts and was apparentlt so crazy they couldn’t even let their friends in, one of them including Jay-Z.