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AP_ALL_DAY_28's Song of the Day
Artist: Gang Starr
Song: Positivity (Remix)
Album: No More Mr Nice Guy
Producer: DJ Premier
Label: Wild Pitch/EMI Records
Year: 1989
Bonus
Artist: Gang Starr
Song: Just to Get a Rep
Album: Step in the Arena
Producer: DJ Premier
Label: Chrysalis
Year: 1991
Artist: Gang Starr
Song: Conspiracy
Album: Daily Operation
Producer: DJ Premier
Label: Chrysalis
Year: 1992
Artist: Gang Starr
Song: DWYCK
Album: Hard to Earn
Producer: DJ Premier
Label: Chrysalis
Year: 1994
| Guru wrote: | | Lemonade was a popular drink and in still is |
Artist: Gang Starr
Song: JFK 2 LAX
Album: Moment of Truth
Producer: DJ Premier
Label: Chrysalis
Year: 1998
I had a very hard time deciding between Moment of Truth & JFK 2 LAX.
| Quote: | The most influential MC-and-DJ tandem of the 1990s, Gang Starr set new standards for East Coast rap with a pair of early-'90s touchstones, Step in the Arena (1991) and Daily Operation (1992), whose appeal has only grown over the decades. Beginning with these classic releases, both listeners and critics heaped mounds of praise upon Guru and DJ Premier -- the former because of his socially conscious lyrics and no-nonsense stance, the latter because of his DJ-style beat-making and jazzy sound. Following Step in the Arena and Daily Operation, Premier became one of New York's most demanded producers, crafting hits for the city's finest MCs, including the Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Jay-Z, and KRS-One.
Following Hard to Earn (1994) -- the duo's fourth Gang Starr collaboration overall -- Guru and Premier began focusing primarily on their solo projects, reuniting infrequently -- too infrequently, many fans felt -- for albums such as Moment of Truth (1998) and The Ownerz (2003). During this period of solo activity, Gang Starr became increasingly recognized as a touchstone, one that critics and hip-hop purists frequently cited as a standard-bearer for streetwise, socially conscious East Coast rap.
Guru (born Keith Edward Elam on July 17, 1966, in Boston, MA; died following a battle with cancer on April 19, 2010) and Premier (born Christopher Edward Martin on March 21, 1966, in Houston, TX) began working together in 1989. Guru had founded Gang Starr a couple years earlier, in 1987, and had already established a working relationship with Wild Pitch Records. The partnership of Guru and Premier as Gang Starr led to a formative debut album, No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989), and its featured single, "Words I Manifest." The DJ-spotlight track "DJ Premier in Deep Concentration" is another highlight of the album, which spent years out of print. Between albums, in 1990, Guru and Premier contributed a song, "Jazz Thing," to the Mo' Better Blues soundtrack. Gang Starr subsequently moved to Chrysalis Records for their second album, Step in the Arena (1991), on which they perfected the approach of their debut, that is, a stark, hard-hitting jazz-rap production style, complete with Premier's masterful DJ cutting, over which Guru's battle-rap-hardened yet smoothly delivered lyrics -- often thoughtful, sly, and streetsmart -- take flight. Gang Starr's third album, Daily Operation (1992), furthered the duo's approach stylistically; widely considered an East Coast rap classic, it's arguably Guru and Premier's finest work, along with its predecessor.
Two years later, Guru and Premier released their fourth album, Hard to Earn (1994), which was more hardcore-fashioned -- as was the style at the time, in the wake of Death Row's uprising -- than past Gang Starr albums and, also unlike past efforts, featured guest rappers. The album spawned the duo's biggest hit to date, "Mass Appeal," their first to break the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (peaking at number 67).
In 1998, after four years between albums, Gang Starr returned with Moment of Truth, their first album to chart number one (on the R&B/Hip-Hop album chart, that is; it peaked at number six overall, still their best showing commercially to date). Moment of Truth was a significant departure from past Gang Starr efforts, very much contemporary in style; for example, the album features numerous guests (Inspectah Deck, Scarface, G. Dep, K-Ci & JoJo, M.O.P.) and bore little trace of the duo's jazz-rap beginnings. The lead single, "You Know My Steez," became the second Gang Starr hit to break into the Billboard Hot 100 chart (peaking at number 76). A double-disc retrospective, Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr (1999), subsequently marked the duo's ten-year anniversary.
In 2002, Guru and Premier reunited for The Ownerz (2003), a celebrated return to form, but the reunion proved short-lived, leaving back-catalog collections such as Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr (2006) to fill the void. Sadly, Guru died at age 43 on April 19, 2010 after battling cancer, suffering a heart attack, and for a time falling into a coma. |
For anybody that doesn't know yes Gang Starr's my favorite hip-hop group of all time so of course I had to end the week with em.
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I'm glad you posted those tracks from that album because we had to feature Kool G Rap & DJ Polo this week and my last post was Gang Starr.
Road to the Riches is obviously my favorite.
G Rap is definitely in the top 5 emcees of all time, sometimes I'd even put him in the top 3.
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| AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | Contest
Who can name all 20 artists/groups in this picture?
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1. Boogie Down Productions
2. A Tribe Called Quest
3. Big L
4. Big Daddy Kane
5. De La Soul
6. Kool G Rap
7. Biz Markie
8. Rakim
9. Eric B
10. Gang Starr
11. KRS-One
12. EPMD
13. Public Enemy
14. Run DMC
15. N.W.A.
16. Pete Rock & CL Smooth
17. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
18. Nas
19. Ultramagnetic MC's
20. Wu-Tang Clan
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Not sure if we're allowed to talk about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill, but anybody heard of the bill their voting today, and a lot of people think it'll pass.
So would that mean that I could get in trouble for downloading the album art to my computer because it's copy-righted?
The song I'm featuring today I already have the album art on my computer so I don't have to download it.
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| AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | Not sure if we're allowed to talk about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill, but anybody heard of the bill their voting today, and a lot of people think it'll pass.
So would that mean that I could get in trouble for downloading the album art to my computer because it's copy-righted?
The song I'm featuring today I already have the album art on my computer so I don't have to download it. |
There's pretty much no way you would get caught for even downloading an album. There's so many people that do it. It's the uploaders and the hosts that get caught. |
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| PackerFanDan wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | Not sure if we're allowed to talk about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill, but anybody heard of the bill their voting today, and a lot of people think it'll pass.
So would that mean that I could get in trouble for downloading the album art to my computer because it's copy-righted?
The song I'm featuring today I already have the album art on my computer so I don't have to download it. |
There's pretty much no way you would get caught for even downloading an album. There's so many people that do it. It's the uploaders and the hosts that get caught. |
Does anybody know if the bill was passed yesterday, because I have no freakin clue. I thought I heard somebody say that it did not pass, not sure though.
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| AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | | PackerFanDan wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | Not sure if we're allowed to talk about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill, but anybody heard of the bill their voting today, and a lot of people think it'll pass.
So would that mean that I could get in trouble for downloading the album art to my computer because it's copy-righted?
The song I'm featuring today I already have the album art on my computer so I don't have to download it. |
There's pretty much no way you would get caught for even downloading an album. There's so many people that do it. It's the uploaders and the hosts that get caught. |
Does anybody know if the bill was passed yesterday, because I have no freakin clue. I thought I heard somebody say that it did not pass, not sure though. |
Late to the party. It was pulled on Friday.
And to answer your question, the answer is yes. ISP's would be forced to police their users, and you would get caught and possibly sentenced to five years in prison for as few as one copyright violation..
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| iPwn wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | | PackerFanDan wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | Not sure if we're allowed to talk about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill, but anybody heard of the bill their voting today, and a lot of people think it'll pass.
So would that mean that I could get in trouble for downloading the album art to my computer because it's copy-righted?
The song I'm featuring today I already have the album art on my computer so I don't have to download it. |
There's pretty much no way you would get caught for even downloading an album. There's so many people that do it. It's the uploaders and the hosts that get caught. |
Does anybody know if the bill was passed yesterday, because I have no freakin clue. I thought I heard somebody say that it did not pass, not sure though. |
Late to the party. It was pulled on Friday.
And to answer your question, the answer is yes. ISP's would be forced to police their users, and you would get caught and possibly sentenced to five years in prison for as few as one copyright violation.. |
But that doesn't matter because it was pulled on Friday, right?
Because like I said before I'm very hesitant to even download the album art for this thread.
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| AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | | iPwn wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | | PackerFanDan wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | Not sure if we're allowed to talk about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill, but anybody heard of the bill their voting today, and a lot of people think it'll pass.
So would that mean that I could get in trouble for downloading the album art to my computer because it's copy-righted?
The song I'm featuring today I already have the album art on my computer so I don't have to download it. |
There's pretty much no way you would get caught for even downloading an album. There's so many people that do it. It's the uploaders and the hosts that get caught. |
Does anybody know if the bill was passed yesterday, because I have no freakin clue. I thought I heard somebody say that it did not pass, not sure though. |
Late to the party. It was pulled on Friday.
And to answer your question, the answer is yes. ISP's would be forced to police their users, and you would get caught and possibly sentenced to five years in prison for as few as one copyright violation.. |
But that doesn't matter because it was pulled on Friday, right?
Because like I said before I'm very hesitant to even download the album art for this thread. |
Yeah, so long as it isn't passed and put into practice, you're fine. It will probably be a few months before the next planned version comes up, which *should* have fewer ridiculous provisions.
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| iPwn wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | | iPwn wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | | PackerFanDan wrote: | | AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | Not sure if we're allowed to talk about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill, but anybody heard of the bill their voting today, and a lot of people think it'll pass.
So would that mean that I could get in trouble for downloading the album art to my computer because it's copy-righted?
The song I'm featuring today I already have the album art on my computer so I don't have to download it. |
There's pretty much no way you would get caught for even downloading an album. There's so many people that do it. It's the uploaders and the hosts that get caught. |
Does anybody know if the bill was passed yesterday, because I have no freakin clue. I thought I heard somebody say that it did not pass, not sure though. |
Late to the party. It was pulled on Friday.
And to answer your question, the answer is yes. ISP's would be forced to police their users, and you would get caught and possibly sentenced to five years in prison for as few as one copyright violation.. |
But that doesn't matter because it was pulled on Friday, right?
Because like I said before I'm very hesitant to even download the album art for this thread. |
Yeah, so long as it isn't passed and put into practice, you're fine. It will probably be a few months before the next planned version comes up, which *should* have fewer ridiculous provisions. |
Can you please keep me updated with that stuff?
Or do you have a link to a site that will keep me updated?
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And also am I good to dl albums & songs still?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| AP_ALL_DAY_28 wrote: | Can you please keep me updated with that stuff?
Or do you have a link to a site that will keep me updated?
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And also am I good to dl albums & songs still? |
I can try.
Most of the stuff would be on news sites and such.
Downloading albums/songs is just as legal/illegal as it's always been, and for now, the same principle in catching/prosecution are the same.
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AP_ALL_DAY_28
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BM, so is that the same group that you featured before, Against the Grain?
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