Prince Paul has revealed {that a} new Biz Markie documentary is within the works, and that he’s been tasked with scoring the mission about his expensive buddy’s life.
Chatting with Selection concerning the work that he put in to assist deliver De La Soul‘s catalog to streaming platforms, the Good-looking Boy Modeling Faculty founder revealed that the following mission he has on deck is a movie about Biz, who handed away in 2021.
“I simply completed scoring a documentary for Biz Markie. Simply completed that, and watching it after which scoring it was so powerful as a result of I’d identified him since I used to be a child, so it was bittersweet,” Prince Paul mentioned. “There have been issues about him I didn’t even know.
“One other half that made it bittersweet is it was the very first thing I ever scored with out my buddy [Don] Newkirk, who handed in November. That was means totally different for me. He’s been there ever since I’ve began making music.”
Prince Paul didn’t supply any particulars as to who else was concerned within the new Biz Markie mission, nor when or how it will be launched.
Biz Markie has been the topic of at the least two earlier documentary tasks. The primary, No one Beats The Biz was launched in 2016, whereas the Common Hip-Hop Museum delivered its personal account of the legend’s life in 2020.
Shortly after the Juice Crew legend misplaced his battle with Sort II diabetes in 2021, his legacy was additionally revisited in a documentary known as The place We’re From: Rise of L.A. Underground Hip Hop.
All through the roughly 90-minute movie, producers/administrators DJ Bonds and DJ Breeze discover the emergence of Los Angeles underground Hip Hop within the late Nineties/early 2000s, recounted firsthand by a few of its architects.
It additionally consists of archival footage from Membership Components and interviews with Hip Hop luminaries Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, Hieroglyphics, The Beat Junkies, Planet Asia, Defari and extra.
In a clip obtained by HipHopDX, veteran MC Jeru The Damaja appeared again on his friendship with Biz and recalled a time when the Human Beatbox gave up his time slot on the 2000 Dwell From The BBQ Competition so Jeru might rock, too.
Whereas additionally discussing with Selection De La Soul’s music and his historical past with the crew, Prince Paul touched on the affect Dave “Trugoy The Dove” Jolicoeur’s dying has had on him, revealing that the 2 of them have been speculated to launch a joint mission collectively within the early 2000s.
“I believe folks don’t understand me and Dave had a variety of historical past,” Prince Paul mentioned. “In fact I requested Dave to be on Good-looking Boy Modeling Faculty, we did the factor with Del (“The Tasks (P Jays)”). However Dave and I have been going to make an album collectively. Simply him and I.
“We received a report deal and the whole lot, and it was going by means of and the label flaked on us. It was a label from abroad — I want I had the identify of it as a result of I’d like to blow them up proper now. This was in all probability about 15 years in the past, and we had received the music collectively and we have been fairly enthusiastic about it and it simply by no means occurred.
“However Dave, his affect on me was loopy,” he continued. “So it’s a variety of little issues. Once I consider him, I smile. And it’s unhappy that he isn’t round to see all of the work we’ve put in to rekindle this entire factor once more. It appears divine in a means, as a result of at the least it occurred: If he had handed away and we hadn’t had the chance to do that once more, I’d really feel some sort of means. He undoubtedly might be missed.”
As for his personal music or new tasks with different collaborators, Prince Paul instructed Selection that whereas he’s “at all times teetering on desirous to make one other report,” he’s nonetheless ready for the proper inspiration.
