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Artist News
DJ Premier’s New York studio closes
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 9 January 2015
DJ Premier’s HeadQCourterz Studios in New York closed down on New Year’s Eve, after 25 years in operation. The last of its contents were removed earlier this week, reports All Hip Hop.
Having become known as the studio of choice for many hip hop artists in the 1990s, while named D&D Studios, Premier acquired and renamed the complex in 2003 after it was closed by its previous owners.
Used by artists including Madonna, Jay-Z, Nas, Notorious BIG, KRS-One, Gang Starr and many others over the years, the closure comes after a change of ownership at the West 37th Street building which housed the studio. It will apparently now be turned into luxury flats. Of course.
Premier has reportedly now relocated all the equipment formerly based there to Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens.
