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 Post subject: Gang Starr mixed by DJ Matthew Africa
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:20 pm 
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This is great
http://www.matthewafrica.com/news.html
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1. Intro
2. You Know My Steez
3. Just to Get a Rep
4. Mass Appeal
5. Step in the Arena
6. Now You're Mine
7. The Militia feat. Freddie Foxxx
8. B.Y.S.
9. Take It Personal
10. The ? Remainz
11. Full Clip
12. DWYCK feat. Nice & Smooth
13. Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
14. Jazz Thing
15. Soliloquy of Chaos
16. Check the Technique
17. Credit Is Due
18. Speak Ya Clout feat. Jeru the Damaja & Lil Dap
19. It'z a Setup feat. Hannibal
20. Words I Manifest (Remix)
21. 2 Deep
22. The Place Where We Dwell
23. Suckas Need Bodyguards
24. Flip the Script
25. What You Want This Time?
26. Love Sick
27. Ex Girl to Next Girl
28. The Planet
29. Make 'em Pay
30. Execution of a Chump
31. DJ Premier Is In Deep Concentration
32. Take Two & Pass
33. Gotta Get Over (Taking Loot)
34. Rite Where You Stand feat. Jadakiss
35. I'm the Man feat. Lil Dap & Jeru the Damaja
36. Code of the Streets
37. Tonz 'o' Gunz
38. Next Time

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Gang Starr is one of my favorite acts from the 1990s. There is no rap group I listened to more in that era, although De La Soul, Outkast & A Tribe Called Quest all run pretty much neck and neck.

Still, in recent years I haven't listened to Gang Starr much. Maybe it's because they haven't released any new music since 2003. Maybe it's because in the last decade the school of hardcore hip hop that they defined stagnated and played out so hard.

For me, this mix was about rediscovery. It grew out of an episode of 2 Busy Saying Yeah from a few weeks ago; after reading about Guru’s health troubles, I devoted a 2-hour episode to Gang Starr's music. It was my first time mixing a lot of the songs in years and it felt so good, so natural, that I knew I had to turn it into tape along the lines of my previous tributes to $hort, Kells, etc.

Unlike those mixes, which I struggled with for weeks and months each, this was a breeze. I spent an afternoon figuring out the track list, recorded the mix live one evening and then spent a few days puttering with the multi-track to clean it up, add drops and get it down to CD length.

I drew tracks from all six of Gang Starr's albums, and each is represented more or less in proportion to how much I like it: 1992's Daily Operation tops them all with 9 selections, although 1990's Step in the Arena, 1994's Hard to Earn and 1998's Moment of Truth all feature prominently with 7, 6 and 5 tracks, respectively. The first and last albums got kind of short shrift, although there were more songs I would have included from each if I hadn’t run out of space. They have one of the strongest catalogs in rap music and there were a lot of additional songs, verses and scratch parts I wish I could have included.


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 Post subject: Re: Gang Starr mixed by DJ Matthew Africa
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:30 pm 
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Good lookin out Black..I was listening to Hard to Earn the other week after I heard about the Guru heart attack thing..Very few groups have a catalog like Gang Starr.


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 Post subject: Re: Gang Starr mixed by DJ Matthew Africa
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Those who know rap and hip-hop are very excellent.
I really admire them.
Once a time, i took part in a hip-hop association, i had learned for a short time. I think it's really interesting and exciting. :banana: :D

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 Post subject: Re: Gang Starr mixed by DJ Matthew Africa
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that is an amazing post.

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 Post subject: Re: Gang Starr mixed by DJ Matthew Africa
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I want to take part in a hip-hop association.

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 Post subject: Re: Gang Starr mixed by DJ Matthew Africa
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sounds like I gotta listen to this again today


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 Post subject: Re: Gang Starr mixed by DJ Matthew Africa
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yeah, sad news...gotta play this today.

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Yup, RIP GURU..Dude was a great MC..Anyone know what the beef with him and Premier was about ?


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yeah, a bummer. The Premier comments seem kind of sad but if that's the type of outgoing message he wants to leave...so be it.

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nice remembrance from his brother.

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yeah, a bummer. The Premier comments seem kind of sad but if that's the type of outgoing message he wants to leave...so be it.



i'm choosing to believe that he didn't write it. Everything I read about this Solar dude is shaaaaaaaaaady, and I'm assuming he wrote it.

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