with the crazy news it is only right to pay respects to one of the greatest to ever do it!

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the shit was so sudden too....craziness..

We are not stuck in this state of lower classes because of fascist..it's because we talk all day like cassius while perpetuating our own madness

http://twitter.com/QtipTheAbstract/status/9856531327

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We are not stuck in this state of lower classes because of fascist..it's because we talk all day like cassius while perpetuating our own madness

Now Playing:
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-uu

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EWJ9JrxU0g&feature=related

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This shit centers me any time life gets hectic.

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
__________________________

Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

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i love this track

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stand up feat. damian marley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqfrunSmJHg

-uu

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ1hYETTgGw

i bumped the shit outta this

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kissed the world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sii3rd4IHiU

-uu

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http://bit.ly/clAAma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAu3cuBIGPo

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Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

that bassline is just nasty!

The only other one I can think of is MOP's Handle Ur Buziness (I like the original better than the Primo mix)

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
__________________________

Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

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"...Whateva, man..." (c) Redman

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good & how he treats people who can't fight back"-Abigail Van Buren

I'm Certified

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"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good & how he treats people who can't fight back"-Abigail Van Buren

I'm Certified

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft8x_dvSCL0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxoqvXmXpZU

Now Playing:
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg-IOCXTYzM

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A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

WHERE THE SOUNDS ARE ORGINAL, INFINITE SKILLS CREATE MIRACLES


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IoPeNC4k_0

Thank God

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPF5MLiTZ_k

Gangstarr - Jazz Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eh16a7n_44

"When I'm on the mic, a nigga throw down his blunt just to hear what we say...up in this bitch..."-Baatin

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPF5MLiTZ_k
>
>Gangstarr - Jazz Thing
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eh16a7n_44

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Greatness^^^^

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Always loved this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atdvWo4yzRI

"When I'm on the mic, a nigga throw down his blunt just to hear what we say...up in this bitch..."-Baatin

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who gonna check me boo?!

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fyi: nobody ever, EVER copped a gstarr album back in the day, took the shit home, listened + said "wow those beats were great but the emcee was lacking, it could've used some better rhyming"

niggas listened to the shit and said "wow, that shit was fire, i think i'll listen to the entire thing again"

that shit was never even a whisper or an afterthought until preme started producing extensively outside of the group (boom bap, illmatic, jeru, unbelievable) @ which point the niggas had ALREADY DROPPED FOUR ALBUMS OF CLASSIC/NEAR-CLASSIC MATERIAL

so dead that nonsense

the reason i fucked w/ 'ru hard back in the day was b/c he was one of the few cats that was nice w/o fitting into a particular character or archetype. almost everybody had a larger-than-life PERSONA --

rick was over-the-top cartoonish w/ the jewelry, wearing crowns and calling niggas "crumbs" and all that
kane was like a 70s barry white pimp nigga resurrected
g rap and cube were like some fucking black terminator niggas or some shit
chuck had that sort of malcolm x aura of austere unapproachability
and ra? shit, ra was like a fucking ancient egyptian. that nigga seemed like he wasn't even from this PLANET


but ru was kind of just a dude. looked and acted like niggas you knew. so he didn't have to worry abt stepping "outside the box" and losing cats, which gave him a certain amt of freedom that maybe a ra/kane/chuck/g rap didn't have.

dude could basically make every type jawn:

- bragging rappity-rap song
- street story narration song
- book-smart college nigga song
- black history song
- girl song
- gun-talk song
- "cops be on some bullshit" song
- "black ppl, we fuckin up + need to get our shit together" song
- "rep my neighborhood/borough" song
- "man, fuck these hoes" song
- "name-drop the old jazz heads" song
- pale horse/c-o-n-spiracy song

and it always came off w/ a degree of sincerity. never felt like he was contradicting/compromising himself or playing a role. very versatile cat in that regard. that's prolly his real legacy as an mc to me, beyond working w/ premo.

the voice and articulation -- self-explanatory

just a sharp emcee on a lot of different levels. i don't do that ranking shit (top 5, 15, 50, fuck does it matter?) but suffice it to say: an upper-echelon cat on catalog alone.

when you can drop a 2cd best of, and niggas are STILL debating shit that got left off, you're certified.

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>and it always came off w/ a degree of sincerity. never felt
>like he was contradicting/compromising himself or playing a
>role. very versatile cat in that regard. that's prolly his
>real legacy as an mc to me, beyond working w/ premo.
>
>the voice and articulation -- self-explanatory

I think it was because of the above mentioned "persona w/o pretension" that Guru was one of the few rappers Momma Claw (R.I.P.) didn't freak about me listening to or watching on TV back then

(lmao, I remember one time I was watching Yo! MTV Raps and Kane's "I Get The Job Done" video was on and that part where he says "let me lick you all over" came up and she just made THE FACE)

I always admired it because when I copped a Gang Starr or Guru record I knew that I would be hearing some "real", relatable shit.
Guru has always been one of the most topical MCs in hiphop.

shit, I didn't even know dude's name was "Guru" until I got my first Gang Starr tape; I thought Guru was "Gang Starr".

>fyi: nobody ever, EVER copped a gstarr album back in the day,
>took the shit home, listened + said "wow those beats were
>great but the emcee was lacking, it could've used some better
>rhyming"
>
>niggas listened to the shit and said "wow, that shit was fire,
>i think i'll listen to the entire thing again"
>
>that shit was never even a whisper or an afterthought until
>preme started producing extensively outside of the group (boom
>bap, illmatic, jeru, unbelievable) @ which point the niggas
>had ALREADY DROPPED FOUR ALBUMS OF CLASSIC/NEAR-CLASSIC
>MATERIAL
>
>so dead that nonsense
>
>the reason i fucked w/ 'ru hard back in the day was b/c he was
>one of the few cats that was nice w/o fitting into a
>particular character or archetype. almost everybody had a
>larger-than-life PERSONA --
>
>rick was over-the-top cartoonish w/ the jewelry, wearing
>crowns and calling niggas "crumbs" and all that
>kane was like a 70s barry white pimp nigga resurrected
>g rap and cube were like some fucking black terminator niggas
>or some shit
>chuck had that sort of malcolm x aura of austere
>unapproachability
>and ra? shit, ra was like a fucking ancient egyptian. that
>nigga seemed like he wasn't even from this PLANET
>
>
>but ru was kind of just a dude. looked and acted like niggas
>you knew. so he didn't have to worry abt stepping "outside the
>box" and losing cats, which gave him a certain amt of freedom
>that maybe a ra/kane/chuck/g rap didn't have.
>
>dude could basically make every type jawn:
>
>- bragging rappity-rap song
>- street story narration song
>- book-smart college nigga song
>- black history song
>- girl song
>- gun-talk song
>- "cops be on some bullshit" song
>- "black ppl, we fuckin up + need to get our shit together"
>song
>- "rep my neighborhood/borough" song
>- "man, fuck these hoes" song
>- "name-drop the old jazz heads" song
>- pale horse/c-o-n-spiracy song
>
>and it always came off w/ a degree of sincerity. never felt
>like he was contradicting/compromising himself or playing a
>role. very versatile cat in that regard. that's prolly his
>real legacy as an mc to me, beyond working w/ premo.
>
>the voice and articulation -- self-explanatory
>
>just a sharp emcee on a lot of different levels. i don't do
>that ranking shit (top 5, 15, 50, fuck does it matter?) but
>suffice it to say: an upper-echelon cat on catalog alone.
>
>when you can drop a 2cd best of, and niggas are STILL debating
>shit that got left off, you're certified.



I support this post 100%.......

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

"I keep pretending/with memories never ending." © Michael Jackson



R.I.P.

nuff said

>when you can drop a 2cd best of, and niggas are STILL debating
>shit that got left off, you're certified.


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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers. (c) Kno

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Whenever anyone in here starts with that "Guru was always garbage" bullshit, I make a mental note that they have horrible taste in music and may in fact be semi-retarded.

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<----- Stuntin like my Daddy

"Sometimes I contemplate moving to a warmer place, then the lake and skyline give me a warm embrace" © Common

the inherent truth in what you just laid out there but it's appreciated.

There's been a few (MANHOODLUM & mysp1200 particularly) fighting that battle here when it comes up as well, people got real reckless with it in recent years & the younger cats who didn't grow up on Gangstarr just started piggybacking that bullshit.

Acting like Guru isn't a legendary elite MC because of some newfangled bullshit people came up with ten years after he was already making classics is that bullshit.

And the 'Gangstarr would have been better with Jeru' people kill me too.

>the inherent truth in what you just laid out there but it's
>appreciated.
>
>There's been a few (MANHOODLUM & mysp1200 particularly)
>fighting that battle here when it comes up as well, people got
>real reckless with it in recent years & the younger cats who
>didn't grow up on Gangstarr just started piggybacking that
>bullshit.
>
>Acting like Guru isn't a legendary elite MC because of some
>newfangled bullshit people came up with ten years after he was
>already making classics is that bullshit.
>
>And the 'Gangstarr would have been better with Jeru' people
>kill me too.

I think even GangStarr fans have taken Guru for granted because of what OP said. You just expected GURU to be Guru and Primo to be Primo. They were like a steady vehicle that never gave you any problems and lasted for years while still getting a curious eye from the females. Guru was like that wise older but much younger than your parents uncle.

i only ever listened to gangstarr for primo beats
his rappin' was secondary
and to tell the truth, i ain't even like step into the arena that much
it wasn't until hard to earn i became a bigger gangstarr fan
i did like their first album though
gusto was my joint...the rest, ok
that's just me though

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All what was said is the reason I luv that freakin group called Gang Starr.

You sir, get the gold star

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
__________________________

Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

I hope he recovers, but I'm not going to start pretending to like him just because he's in a coma.

http://www.last.fm/user/_CondoM_/

(sorry, had to do it)

Guru has just never appealed to me. I can listen to a few songs here and there but I can't handle an entire album of him.

http://www.last.fm/user/_CondoM_/

the other 16 year old revisionists were too embarassed after reading the 20+ replies co-signing Dula.

God damn how fucking stupid yall must feel right now

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<----- Stuntin like my Daddy

"Sometimes I contemplate moving to a warmer place, then the lake and skyline give me a warm embrace" © Common

if he didn't he would be just another one of the forgotten 90's rappers

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"F you Im better in tune with the Infinite"

calling niggas "crumbs" *dead*

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"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

this crazy concept Premo carried GURU is the youngins who didn't
experience good hip-hop in real time. it's why i made the KRS post,
same shit. youngins and wanna-bees in here.

>fyi: nobody ever, EVER copped a gstarr album back in the day,
>took the shit home, listened + said "wow those beats were
>great but the emcee was lacking, it could've used some better
>rhyming"
>
>niggas listened to the shit and said "wow, that shit was fire,
>i think i'll listen to the entire thing again"
>
>that shit was never even a whisper or an afterthought until
>preme started producing extensively outside of the group (boom
>bap, illmatic, jeru, unbelievable) @ which point the niggas
>had ALREADY DROPPED FOUR ALBUMS OF CLASSIC/NEAR-CLASSIC
>MATERIAL
>
>so dead that nonsense
>
>the reason i fucked w/ 'ru hard back in the day was b/c he was
>one of the few cats that was nice w/o fitting into a
>particular character or archetype. almost everybody had a
>larger-than-life PERSONA --
>
>rick was over-the-top cartoonish w/ the jewelry, wearing
>crowns and calling niggas "crumbs" and all that
>kane was like a 70s barry white pimp nigga resurrected
>g rap and cube were like some fucking black terminator niggas
>or some shit
>chuck had that sort of malcolm x aura of austere
>unapproachability
>and ra? shit, ra was like a fucking ancient egyptian. that
>nigga seemed like he wasn't even from this PLANET
>
>
>but ru was kind of just a dude. looked and acted like niggas
>you knew. so he didn't have to worry abt stepping "outside the
>box" and losing cats, which gave him a certain amt of freedom
>that maybe a ra/kane/chuck/g rap didn't have.
>
>dude could basically make every type jawn:
>
>- bragging rappity-rap song
>- street story narration song
>- book-smart college nigga song
>- black history song
>- girl song
>- gun-talk song
>- "cops be on some bullshit" song
>- "black ppl, we fuckin up + need to get our shit together"
>song
>- "rep my neighborhood/borough" song
>- "man, fuck these hoes" song
>- "name-drop the old jazz heads" song
>- pale horse/c-o-n-spiracy song
>
>and it always came off w/ a degree of sincerity. never felt
>like he was contradicting/compromising himself or playing a
>role. very versatile cat in that regard. that's prolly his
>real legacy as an mc to me, beyond working w/ premo.
>
>the voice and articulation -- self-explanatory
>
>just a sharp emcee on a lot of different levels. i don't do
>that ranking shit (top 5, 15, 50, fuck does it matter?) but
>suffice it to say: an upper-echelon cat on catalog alone.
>
>when you can drop a 2cd best of, and niggas are STILL debating
>shit that got left off, you're certified.




^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Everything I came in here to say.

100% post right there fam!

n/m

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"I'm so glad I got my own
I'm so glad that I can see
my life's a natural high
the man can't put no thing on me" (c) Curtis Mayfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLitLJFfOcA

"When I'm on the mic, a nigga throw down his blunt just to hear what we say...up in this bitch..."-Baatin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-iqNLjJiRg

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrNNEM-p2UQ

I love the chop and I know some folks had an issue with that sustained string that never let's up but I love that mess the same way I did with Jaylib's "The Mission".
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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers. (c) Kno

This shit is straight fire

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
__________________________

Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

if it had been recorded a few years earlier would fit right in on Full Clip, which to me is the ultimate compliment you can pay to a Gangstarr track.

...Classic...

Integrity is the Cornerstone of Artistry...

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