MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   BLITZMart METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Gang Starr One of hip-hop’s longest-running partnerships, the pairing of Guru (Keith Elam) and DJ Premier (Christopher Martin) was responsible for some of the most important hip-hop of the ‘90s. A Boston native, Guru brought his fledgling group Gang Starr to the Big Apple in the mid-‘80s, where they signed to Wild Pitch Records. The singles flopped and the group bailed, but Guru stayed in New York and met Premier, who was raised in Texas and formerly went by the name Waxmaster C. Guru and Premier ended up sharing an apartment in the Bronx and reactivated Gang Starr with the ’89 single “Words I Manifest” and debut album No More Mr. Nice Guy. The duo’s big break came a year later when Spike Lee picked “Jazz Thing” to be in his film Mo Better Blues. The tune sparked a friendship with saxman Branford Marsalis, and led to a deal with Chrysalis for the stunning sophomore set Step In The Arena. A groundbreaking fusion of jazz and hip-hop, topped with Guru’s thoughtful, provocative rhymes, it established the group as one to be reckoned with. The 1992 followup Daily Operation introduced rappers Jeru the Damaja and Lil’ Dap, while the pair’s fourth album together, Hard To Earn, dropped in 1994, but by then both Guru and Premier had other projects to pursue. Primo was recruited to produce tracks for artists like the Notorious B.I.G. and Nas, while Guru carried his jazzy leanings even farther with the 1994 release of Jazzmatazz, a hip-hop album that featured guest shots from jazz greats like Donald Byrd. A second Jazzmatazz album followed the next year, but it wasn’t until 1998 that Gang Starr broke a long silence with the release of Moment of Truth, a packet of hard-hitting excerpts from Guru’s diary. The group celebrated a decade together with the 1999 double-disc greatest hits album, Full Clip, and a new outing is promised for 2001.     Gang Starr 1/2 & 1/2 (feat. M.O.P.) WinMedia Rap/Hip Hop Forget the title: Guru, Premier and the Mash Out Posse deliver the whole package on this chilling, brilliant dispatch from a hip-hop war zone!
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