Today (July 17), is the late Keith “Guru” Elam’s birthday. Rest In Power. I’m old enough to remember back when Mike Dee & Keithy E left for New York in order to eventually land Gang Starr Posse a deal with K-Tel/Wild Pitch Records in 1987. Back then Boston’s Hip-Hop and Rap music wasn’t being acknowledged […]
Big Shug and DJ Premier bring back that classic Gang Starr Foundation sound on their gritty collaborative effort “Hardbody.” You can’t expect anything less than poignant bars on a track produced by the aforementioned Premo, that also features Fat Joe and M.O.P. “Hardbody” is set to appear on Big Shug’s I.M. 4-EVA album, which drops July 24 and […]
Few of you that are now reading this know that around the same time I’d originally decided to go back into having a personal blog (which later became Bastard Swordsman) the news came down that Guru was in a coma and his life was hanging in the balance. I was in complete shock. I’m an […]
