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14 de mar. de 2005 · Gang Starr Foundation: A Head of the Game by Gang Starr released in 2005. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Gang Starr Foundation is a collective of East Coast hip-hop artists led by the hip hop group Gang Starr. It was co-founded by Boston legend Big Shug. It was established in 1993.
21 de abr. de 2010 · Music video by Gang Starr Featuring NYG'z & H.Stax performing Same Team, No Games.#GangStarr #SameTeamNoGame #Vevo #HipHop #VevoOfficial #OfficialMusicVideo.
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Gang Starr discography. American hip hop duo Gang Starr have released seven studio albums, two compilation albums, thirty-one singles, one promotional single and nine music videos . Albums. Studio albums. Compilation albums. Singles. Promotional singles. Guest appearances. Music videos. See also. DJ Premier § Discography. Guru discography. Notes.
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Original & second group lineups
The original Gang Starr group was founded in Morehouse College by three friends from Boston, Massachusetts: Guru (then known as MC Keithy E.) who had planned to be a rapper/singer, Big Shug as the main MC and DJ Suave D (Shug's younger brother Dana) as their DJ. After Shug was imprisoned, Suave D quit the group, leaving Guru to enlist the services of MC Damo D-Ski and DJ 1, 2 B-Down (also known as Mike Dee) with various producers, such as Donald D, J.V. Johnson or The 45 King helping out. The...
Breakup and partnering with DJ Premier
In 1989, the group split for the second time and the only member willing to continue under the name was Guru. He got in touch with Houston, Texas native DJ Premier (then known as Waxmaster C) who sent him a beat tape, which Guru liked. He invited DJ Premier to join Gang Starr, relocate with him to Brooklyn and in that same year they released their first single "Words I Manifest" along with the album No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989). In 1990, the group was signed to the Chrysalis record label by th...
Guru's death
In February 2010, Guru suffered a heart attack, went into a coma, and died on April 19, 2010. DJ Solar, a long-time collaborator of Guru, said Guru chose not to go public with the diagnosis of myeloma that was made in 2000. Guru appeared to have fallen out with DJ Premier seven years prior to his death and did "not wish my ex-DJ to have anything to do with my name, likeness, events, tributes, etc." There is speculation that the letter was not written by Guru, but was composed by Solar.The val...
The Gang Starr Foundation was a loose collective of various people who have worked closely with the group, through either Guru's now defunct Ill Kid label, DJ Premier's production work or the management company that Gang Starr was represented by, Empire Management. Members of the foundation included Big Shug, Afu-Ra, Jeru the Damaja, Krumbsnatcha, ...
"Jazz and Hip-Hop" by Jared Pauley, (Jazz.com)6 de mar. de 2024 · Hard To Earn served as the introduction to the Gang Starr Foundation, a collection of emcees that had rolled with the duo for years, some even before the group released their 1989 debut No More Mr. Nice Guy.
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