Classics Discussion: Gang Starr

[mobbinfms]

Daily Operation and Hard To Earn were on the best 100 albums Source list in 98. That's good enough for me.
Moment of Truth was an amazing album for both Primo and Guru (RIP ). That one was deemed the shyt in 98 and still rings bells.
Easily a classic.
Step in the Arena isn't quite there quality wise.
The other two aren't even contenders.
Living Proof is Primo's magnum opus
Guru is supremely underrated
fukk Solar

 

[mobbinfms]

Premo has the ability to make below average MCs(Group Home, Big Shug) sound average and average MCs (Guru, Freddie Foxx, Afu-Ra) sound good. Jeru was already a good MC and the result was a classic album from front to back.

Imagine if we had got that Premo produced Nas album they promised us years back

he was amazing breh.
Militia
Part of My Life

 

[mobbinfms]

Imagine if we had got that Premo produced Nas album they promised us years bac

Why'd you have to bring that up breh?

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Daily Operation is a classic as well to me. It took many listens though.

The production holds up and Guru was lyrically focused. His second best performance on a Gang Starr album after Moment Of Truth.

lol yeah he was drunk af on HTE but it was refreshing for a change

I don't mean to re-inforce the stereotype but I do find him too monotonous and therefore a little uninteresting

like it's a different monotonous that can't grab my attention like a Nas/GZA can.

 

[mobbinfms]

#tpc
#tnt
Let's take some time out and recognize the MULTIPLE classics Guru and Premier blessed us with
fukk Solar

 

[The_Hillsta]

 

[g-ice]

lol yeah he was drunk af on HTE but it was refreshing for a change

I don't mean to re-inforce the stereotype but I do find him too monotonous and therefore a little uninteresting

like it's a different monotonous that can't grab my attention like a Nas/GZA can.

See I for one find it interesting. For me it's a top 5 voice in Hip-Hop. shyt is so unique imo

 

[g-ice]

Daily Operation and Hard To Earn were on the best 100 albums Source list in 98. That's good enough for me.
Moment of Truth was an amazing album for both Primo and Guru (RIP ). That one was deemed the shyt in 98 and still rings bells.
Easily a classic.
Step in the Arena isn't quite there quality wise.
The other two aren't even contenders.
Living Proof is Primo's magnum opus
Guru is supremely underrated
fukk Solar

I listened to Living Proof recently and

Those fukking beats are

 

[Deltron]

Hard to choose 5 favorites but:

Dwyck
Mass Appeal
You Know My Steez
Just to Get a Rep
Above the Clouds

 

[patscorpio]

they have 4 genuine classic contenders: Step in the Arena, Daily Operation, Hard to Earn & Moment of Truth

i agree...ownerz im on the fence about...i loved that album when it came out and i had on repeat for a min..deadly habitz was my joint ... ..but since im on the fence im going to say no for now

 

[Zero]

Premo has the ability to make below average MCs(Group Home, Big Shug) sound average and average MCs (Guru, Freddie Foxx, Afu-Ra) sound good. Jeru was already a good MC and the result was a classic album from front to back.

Imagine if we had got that Premo produced Nas album they promised us years back

Afu-Ra got BLESSED








To this day, I couldn't tell you a word this incense sellin lookin nikka was talking about

The beats though

 

[Deltron]

Afu

 

[mobbinfms]

Cooking hot dogs blasting Daily Operation

 

[Mandizi]

Hard to Earn and Moment of Truth for me.

Hard to Earn has one of the strongest finishes (2nd halves) of any hip hop I've ever heard.

Guru and all the guest artists lyrically torched that whole album. The production by Premo makes it a great late-night album.

 

[g-ice]

Afu-Ra got BLESSED








To this day, I couldn't tell you a word this incense sellin lookin nikka was talking about

The beats though

Defeat

Haven't heard that shyt in years. I dead ass just shed a tear on the low.