People who actually LIKE Gang Starr and Guru, defend them here against the barbarians

Oh wait, Gang Starr are fucking MONOTONOUS, that's right.

-Adam on the "cash money vs. rawkus" thread.

I love them, and "Hard to Earn" is one of my favorite albums ever..."The Planet" and "Mass Appeal" and "Suckas Need Bodyguards" and "Code of the Streets" - that's some banging breakbeat funk and I like how guru's rasp sounds simultaneously smoked out and conciencious (sp)

Concinecious is the best word for Guru's voice, it's got conscious and conscientious going on at the same time plus a bunch of other weird phonemes I can't draw out yet. I don't believe in soul, but that's what his voice is full of, thick and marmalade-y and just right.

This about sums it up. Why Premier would choose to devote so much of his time and attention to such a boring MC is eternally beyond me.

truer words have never been spoken. i have never understood why this album doesn't get more love/canonization. it is easily their best album and a top ten in my books. its also really funky, along the lines of EPMD's strictly business and brand nubian's one for all.

I think "wow, that's a clever Chi Ali reference."

especially when "I'm getttin' more iller than the Zodiac killer"

seriously,Living Proof is one of my personal favorite hip hop albums ever, maybe that makes me weird or dated but I don't care, so there

OTM. but i don't really hate Guru, he's just an average mc with a decent voice. not much personality to him though, and you'd expect someone called Guru to live up to such a name.

Oh man:

so Primo confirmed on sirius radio that Guru had heart attack & is in a coma and will undergo surgery tomorrow.

noooooo! i hope he recovers.

how did i know that would be a link to a ?uestlove tweet

Gang Starr has never made a bad album. Get well soon, Guru!

lol @ young deej

someone change thread title to "defend them here against disgusting savages"?

wtf people on this thread having a problem with guru

it's like having a problem with charlie parker

damn the guy is only 43, hope he's gonna be alright

it's like having a problem with charlie parker

― zvooka socka lame (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, March 1, 2010 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

It's nothing like that at all.

actually it is

haha see i can play too

NBC needs to create a show called THE MESSAGE BOARD REF for such disagreements like this

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Guru can't die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZeEt0CCdM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjCHXJA9D9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFQQeUNaZtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyP3nhBLL8Y

cant believe there are any haters but fuck 'em if they exist. Gang Starr are the best.

Word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwRkpE2UDIE

i caught a lot of shit for liking gangstar/guru back in the day, esp. from one painfully hip writer who was hyping this new guy named...sean "puffy" combs/LOL

what is there not to like?!
News:
http://www.ballerstatus.com/2010/03/01/gangstarrs-guru-suffers-heart-attack-currently-in-coma/
Hope he makes it out okay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCo_lR3Pp0

how fucking sad :(

damn this sucks

not a huge stan or anything but man this sucks. good luck big guy

I self Lord and Master shall bring disaster to evil factors
Demonic chapters, shall be captured by Kings
Through the storms of days after
Unto the Earth from the Sun through triple darkness to blast ya
with a force that can`t be compared
to any firepower, for it`s mindpower shared
The brainwake, causes vessels to circulate
like constellations reflect at night off the lake

^^^ full stop one of my favourite songs of all time. i always liked the deck verse better but guru still kills it.

damn this is terrible news. gonna dig out 'moment of truth' right now some classic shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV0b74LLGk0

listenin to moment of truth

guru looks like the last dude you'd expect to have a heart attack

UPDATE: Guru Surgery Successful; Full Recovery Expected
Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:30 AM | 10 comments
By Nolan Strong and Grouchy Greg Watkins
(AllHipHop News) Gangstarr founding member rapper Guru is recovering from a successful surgery yesterday (March 1) , after suffering a massive heart attack over the weekend.

Sources close to Guru told AllHipHop.com that the rapper is doing “fine” and should make a full recovery, despite chatter on the Internet that the 43-year-old artist had died.

“Guru is alive and recovering from his surgery. Doctors are expecting a full recovery luckily,” a source told AllHipHop.com.

Guru's partner DJ Premier also confirmed the news on his official Twitter page.

More information will be released to AllHipHop.com today (March 2) regarding Guru’s health condition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TNkP4pH6-0

some weird shit discussed in that video

wtf is he talking about mc solaar?

i don't think so

http://www.guru7grand.net/solar.html

lol @

"... this is a new era. This is the era of the Neptunes, of Storch, and Kanye, and I see myself in the same school of producers."
Solar, Soundslam Interview 2005

file under: sites that haven't been updated in 5 years

wtffffff

http://djpremierblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-in-gods-name-is-really-going-on.html

http://djpremierblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/gurus-nephew-update-us-with-new-video.html

dammit

RIP :(

also, the letter here is crazy weird
http://www.ballerstatus.com/2010/04/20/guru-dies-after-long-battle-with-cancer-report/

My loyal best friend, partner and brother, Solar, has been at my side through it all and has been made my health proxy by myself on all matters relating to myself. He has been with me by my side on my many hospital stays, operations, doctors visits and stayed with me at my home and cared for me when I could not care for myself. Solar and his family is my family and I love them dearly and I expect my family, friends, and fans to respect that, regardless to anybody's feelings on the matter. It is my wish that counts. This being said I am survived by the love of my life, my sun KC, who I trust will be looked after by Solar and his family as their own. Any awards or tributes should be accepted, organized approved by Solar on behalf myself and my son until he is of age to except on his own.

I do not wish my ex-DJ to have anything to do with my name likeness, events tributes etc. connected in anyway to my situation including any use of my name or circumstance for any reason and I have instructed my lawyers to enforce this. I had nothing to do with him in life for over 7 years and want nothing to do with him in death. Solar has my life story and is well informed on my family situation, as well as the real reason for separating from my ex-DJ. As the sole founder of GangStarr, I am very proud of what GangStarr has meant to the music world and fans. I equally am proud of my Jazzmatazz series and as the father of Hip-Hop/Jazz. I am most proud of my leadership and pioneering efforts on Jazzmatazz 4 for reinvigorating the Hip-Hop/Jazz genre in a time when music quality has reached an all time low. Solar and I have toured in places that I have never been before with GangStarr or Jazzmatatazz and we gained a reputation for being the best on the planet at Hip-Hop/Jazz, as well as the biggest and most influential Hip-Hop/Jazz record with Jazzmatazz 4 of the decade to now. The work I have done with Solar represents a legacy far beyond its time. And we as a team were not afraid to push the envelope. To me this is what true artists do! As men of honor we stood tall in the face of small mindedness, greed, and ignorance. As we fought for music and integrity at the cost of not earning millions and for this I will always be happy and proud, and would like to thank the million fans who have seen us perform over the years from all over the world. The work I have done with Solar represents a legacy far beyond its time and is my most creative and experimental to date. I hope that our music will receive the attention it deserves as it is some of the best work I have done and represents some of the best years of my life.

like... i have a feeling solar had a part in writing this letter.

Shit - I din't even know he was ill. RIP Guru.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He9aADZqf-s

RIP

RIP

I hope Solar did write that letter, it's not a great way to go out.

It says "The work I have done with Solar represents a legacy far beyond its time" twice o_O

RIP, Guru.

RIP, jazz man.

Pour out the lemonade.

oh man really? ;_; ;_; ;_;

THIS FUCKING SUCKS

Oh man there will never be another Gang Starr record :(

gifted unlimited rhymes universal r.i.p.

This fucking sucks. It was Guru you know! This is like I dunno, Mick Jagger dying for some boring old white cunty boomers will feel like.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O8oV1ATfH0

TONZ O GUNZ everybodies getting strapped
TONZ O GUNZ gotta watch the way you act
TONZ O GUNZ real easy to get
TONZ O GUNZ bringing nothing but death

The work I have done with Solar represents a legacy far beyond its time and is my most creative and experimental to date.

I guess you could say that these press statements ghostwritten by Solar are some kind of experimental art form.

rip

fuck :(

can someone update the thread title or something? i saw the thread bumped and was like cool maybe there's an update on his recovery, such a heartbreaker to scroll down and see the news.

RIP

yeah this sucks RIP

if he did write that thats horrible

anyone know what the deal is with him and premier? i knew they had a rocky relationship but i didnt know it was THAT bad.

>_<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD8hhNtxPgs

damn, thought this was going to be good news. Guru + Premo were such an amazing combination, they consistently made such great records. RIP.

I'm sure it was a dispute about royalties or something. Part about Guru being the "sole founder" of Gang Starr sound like some lawsuit shit trying to cut Premier out of the publishing money.

gangstarr youtubus, hella nostalgia rite now

Comments from the site hosting the letter:

Guru did not type this letter!!!!!

Just smells fake….I bet a pargraphologist (or whatever the tech term is) could pick this apart and clearly tell you that this was not written by someone on their death bed but by someone who has something to gain.

Odd…at the very least, odd..shady…

If you read between the lines it sounds like he had complications from HIV and Solar was his lover. There’s definitely more to this story.

Distasteful speculation is what is required now.

maybe guru was french now, just sayin

maybe Jazzmatazz 4 did reinvigorate the Hip-Hop/Jazz genre in a time when music quality has reached an all time low.

maybe Jazzmatazz 4 did redeinvigorate the Hip-Hop/Jazz genre in a time when music quality has reached an all time low.

(Oh no I didn't...)

all time low high *

its true you didnt, but then you did

love this till i die:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roEvfT-gT0Q

RIP

great hip hop group.

this news really sucks ...

can't believe Guru was already 24 when "Just to get a Rep" came out. He already looked like a hip-hop wise man. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht5nYZsBqPA

wow, genuinely shocked. wtf

RIP

I'll pour some lemonade on the curb for ya

Son of a bitch! I thought no news was good news after the heart attack, but now this? Fuck.

RIP

RIP

a sad day for sure

all the solar & anti-premier stuff... well, the weird letter is not a great thing to leave us with, but the gang starr records remain

That letter is like if Keith Richards died & left a letter asking people to focus on his work with the Expensive Winos.

RIP :( Shitty thing to hear first thing in the morning.

Distasteful speculation is what is required now.

That's totally what the letter sounds like though, whoever the hell wrote it.

is it really that hard to believe that a dude near-death would write a fairly rambling and incoherent letter? dude was in a coma like a month ago!

its neither rambling or incoherent

eh you know what I mean

you mean a letter full of challops

You mean a letter so incredibly dismissive of his former MC as to mention his possible taking legal action from the grave, while simultaneously kissing his current collaborator's ass seven ways to Sunday?

former DJ, shurely?

Right. Slip o' the mind.

Goddam this sucks & is surprising news to me - I had no idea he was sick. I've actually just started to consider Gang Starr, which I'd somehow overlooked when I was younger, b/c of a collection I am working on of hip-hop cassettes 87-92. I remember him mostly from Jazzmatazz which was one of if not the de facto dormroom hipster rap albums of 94-95. I wrote this in another post recently, but very few actually made a worthwhile case for the existence of jazz-rap & this guy was one of them, so if nothing else he deserves props for that.

RIP dude.

I was REALLY into the first Jazzmatazz album (lol dormroom hipster rap) but ... it quickly became a bit of an aesthetic dead-end, no?

Can you blame fans for wanting to believe Solar wrote that letter? It's easier than believing Guru would use his last words to eviscerate his old bandmate.

eh I think it's pretty easy to believe he's bitter towards Primo

sometimes people are bitter right up to the very end

Does anyone know what the 'beef' was with these two? Feel free to link to articles outlining their feud. I'm looking for some now but my google phrases aren't turning up much.

oh come on I'm sure it's just royalties/money

there's been some really weird stuff going around, the impression i got was that guru was not well and solar was sort of manipulating him and not allowing his family to visit him....seems like some weird landy/brian wilson shit or something

from 2005
http://www.jivemagazine.com/article.php?pid=3733

JIVE: What are some of the artists that Seven Grand Records will be putting out?

Guru: Well first let me give a little back ground about how this how came about. With Gangstarr, I felt frustrated. Being on a major label and every time we came out with a record there was input from the label or the A&R who wanted to tamper with our creative vision, especially mine as the front man and the writer.

They had it under the contract that I could only use Guru for Gangstarr and Jazzmatazz, a seven album period. It was really annoying to me because Premier being that he was just a member of the group, production wasn’t covered under that, so he could produce for whomever he wanted. I supported that because I felt that was good for Gangstarr because it was like people were buying into Gangstarr, but I still felt it was foul that I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, so I vowed that once I got out of that contract, I was going to do a solo project. During that time, Solar was hanging with us. For people who don’t really know what’s going on, they think that Solar came out of no where.

...

There’s no beef with me and Premier. No emotionality involved. What it has to do with is Gangstarr is a legacy, and if we keep trying to put it out under the wrong circumstances, then it will just get milked and milked and milked until its something that’s not worth anything. I didn’t want that, so I am leaving that as a legacy, and at the same time create a new legacy.

sort of confusing.

very sad that he's gone.

RIP Guru

I was hoping he'd pull through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZurtunmv54

yeh the letter is the same stuff that's been coming from the guru/solar camp for a minute. lots of ppl have reacted to the constant "super producer" thing w solar and guru's upplaying of that and downplaying of gangstarr. stuff like saying guru was brainwashed or controlled by solar in a way that was unhealthy, or that there was a relationship. but it's hard to make a call on it, could be premier stans reacting to guru wanting ppl to respect his jazzmatazz project, or could be ppl who really know what the situation was. it's a pity to be talking about this stuff really.

some links kind of abt it:

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.8862/title.guru-talks-new-album-gang-starr

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2009/04/guru-fastlane

http://philaflava.blogspot.com/2009/06/exclusive-interview-wguru-solar.html

actually bought some lemonade today, poured some out. :(

there was also the recent business, which is upthread i think, of his nephew trying to see him in hospital and finding that family were blocked due to the healthcare proxy signed by guru's "brother & sister", actually solar & solar's wife, which kind of fed into this idea of solar's influence being seen as kind of o_O rather than there being some kind of premier-guru beef.

I'm so out of touch I was thinking Solar might be MC Solaar.

so did MTV News

I'm sure it was a dispute about royalties or something. Part about Guru being the "sole founder" of Gang Starr sound like some lawsuit shit trying to cut Premier out of the publishing money.

― President Keyes, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 6:17 AM Bookmark

Technically, Primo is not a founding member of Gang Starr, which started as Guru's crew in Boston. The original incarnation of Gang Starr released a couple singles circa '87. After the other members bailed, Guru kept the name, linked up with Premier in NY, and the rest is history.

RIP, btw. Everything about this seems so bizarre. :(

http://www.discogs.com/Gang-Starr-Believe-Dat/master/193922

http://www.discogs.com/Gang-Starr-The-Lesson/master/23654

http://www.discogs.com/Gang-Starr-Movin-On/master/23351

^^^Pre-Premier Gang Starr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7cFdBquRNs

He sounds so young!

was hoping for positive news, rest in peace.

No fan of hip-hop, but those "Jazzmatazz" albums were far from the worst hip-hop I've heard.

Oh, and, RIP

What's the worst, then?

Anything by MC Paul Barman surely?

oh no, don't get the Geirbot going on this subject ...

http://www.megomuseum.com/teevee/images/robot.jpg

what a bummer...RIP

can we plz not turn this into (yet another) Geir hates rap thread

hey, that pre-premier gang starr track is kind of great. who knew?

mister cee tribute on hot97 from earlier today:

http://rapradar.com/2010/04/20/mister-cees-guru-tribute-mix/ "> http://rapradar.com/2010/04/20/mister-cees-guru-tribute-mix/

I'm so out of touch I was thinking Solar might be MC Solaar.

― Chris L, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:45 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so did MTV News

― dmr, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:00 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so did i, disappointed tbh

RIP Guru.

:-( RIP guru <3 u

Guru is horrible. So monotonous, and he never actually says anything interesting. Premier and Jeru would've made a better Gangstarr team. I can't listen to more than two Gangstarr tracks in a row. Too samey.
― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, October 8, 2004 7:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

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sorry dude is dead. never heard of him.

http://www.nkeppol.com/files/gimgs/33_lemonade1.jpg

RIP

if you don't like gang starr...you just don't get it

I was raised like a muslim, praying to the East

Fat Lace dedication to Guru:

http://fatlacemagazine.com/2010/04/mostly-tha-voice-the-fat-lace-dedication-to-guru/

Guru is horrible. So monotonous, and he never actually says anything interesting. Premier and Jeru would've made a better Gangstarr team. I can't listen to more than two Gangstarr tracks in a row. Too samey.
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― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:35 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

c&ping negative things someone said about a dead person before they died is a dick move imo, chill out

sorry i didnt think to bump this thread before he died but dead or alive, suggest ban

http://livefromheadqcourterz.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/official-statement-from-dj-premier-on-the-death-of-keith-elam-guru/

IT WAS A SAD DAY FOR ME TO GET CONFIRMATION ON THE DEATH OF A MAN WHO I WILL CONTINUE TO CALL MY BROTHER, KEITH ELAM, BETTER KNOWN AS GURU OF THE LEGENDARY GANG STARR.

FROM 1988-2004, WE EXPERIENCED SO MUCH SUCCESS TOGETHER THAT WE WERE ABLE TO EXPAND OUR BUSINESSES INDEPENDENTLY AND GIVE EACH OTHER WHAT GURU CALLED “CREATIVE SPACE”, BEFORE PLANNING TO REUNITE FOR OUR 7TH LP WHEN THE TIME WAS RIGHT. TRAGICALLY, WE WILL NEVER REACH THAT DAY.

I’VE BEEN ASKED TO COMMENT ON A LETTER SPEAKING ILL OF ME WHICH WAS SUPPOSEDLY WRITTEN BY GURU IN HIS DYING DAYS. ALL I WILL SAY ABOUT IT IS THAT OUR TIME TOGETHER WAS BEAUTIFUL, WE BUILT A HIP HOP LEGACY TOGETHER, AND NO ONE CAN RE-WRITE HISTORY OR TAKE AWAY MY LOVE FOR HIM. ONE THING I WOULD NEVER DO IS PLAY AROUND WITH THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS LIFE.

I WILL CELEBRATE GURU’S LIFE… I WILL HONOR HIS MEMORY… I WILL GRIEVE WITH THE ELAM FAMILY OVER HIS UNTIMELY DEATH… I WILL REMEMBER THE GANG STARR FOUNDATION AND ALL OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF GANG STARR WHO CAME BEFORE ME – WE ALL KNOW EACH OTHER… MOSTLY, I WILL CHERISH EVERYTHING WE CREATED TOGETHER AS GANG STARR, FOREVER. I’M GONNA MISS HEARING HIS SIGNATURE MONOTONE VOICE WHEN HE WALKS IN THE ROOM, BUT THE SONGS WILL ALWAYS BRING IT BACK TO ME….HIS RHYME FLOWS WERE INSANE, AND I WILL NEVER REMOVE HIM FROM MY HEART AND SOUL…….REST IN PEACE TO THE MAN WHO FELT “SATISFACTION FROM THE STREET CROWD REACTION” … I LOVE YOU GOO…….DJ PREMIER

http://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/12586059508

http://www.djpremierblog.com/2010/03/11/the-man-who-calls-himself-a-superproducer/

lol at even premo having mixed up solar/solaar, but mostly sad

that premier post above is classy

classy but sb for all caps. jeez, learn to not hurt my eyes fav producer of all time.

Snoop Dogg: "420 gonna be in honor of the big homie Guru.. respect the foundation... light one up for the legend"

"I’M GONNA MISS HEARING HIS SIGNATURE MONOTONE VOICE WHEN HE WALKS IN THE ROOM"

lolzors.

@BumpyKnuckles: #FUCKSOLAR YOU WANNA BE FAMOUS? I GOT U. LET GURU's BODY GO TO HIS FAMILY YOU SICK FUCKIN WEIRDO!!

lol at even premo having mixed up solar/solaar, but mostly sad

that "DJ Premier blog" is a fansite, not Premo blogging

ha, my bad

Bio
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thx 4 clearin that up

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power by icet is totally proto gangstarr sound btw, its rad

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/04/23/my_brother_gang_starrs_guru/

dj premier tribute mix
http://www.mixcloud.com/WorksOfMart/keith-guru-elam-tribute-mix/

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2010/04/23/Dad%2C-Keiith-and-Me-for-Glob__1272065737_0012.jpg

damn, you can definitely tell he was his father's son, if not in that picture

so he never did come out of the coma...

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interviews/id.1535/title.tasha-denham-just-to-get-a-rep

Interview with an employee of Seven Grand Records:

DX: As a close associate, an employee, all these things. When was the first time you started to notice that things were not normal or healthy?

Tasha Denham: I think it came pretty early on, really. One of the defining moments to me when I knew something was...it was the way Solar spoke to Guru. It was always down to him. He really belittled him, and would do it in front of other people. This wasn't something he just did in private. He is a member of The Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earths, as is Guru. He would use that against him, to bring him down. It was important to both of them, very important. I believe Guru's a pleaser; he liked to make people happy. Solar would tell him that the Nation of Gods and Earths are ashamed of him, they're disappointed in him. That he doesn't live up to their teachings. I can't think of the word that they used. There was a lot of times they'd get into arguments over it. He'd sit, and Guru would try to defend himself, and Solar would just get more and more irate over it.

There was one night we were at Guru's house. I was about three months pregnant at the time. Guru kept defending himself. Guru actually stood up and kind of got in Solar's face about it. Next thing I know, Solar punched him in the face. From that point in time, he just started kicking him and hitting him. Guru was fighting back, he wasn't just sitting there being a punk, but at the same time, Guru had severe asthma. He didn't have his inhaler. He started really hyper-ventalating and really having a hard time, and Solar kept beating him. It wasn't a fight anymore, it was beating him. I felt that it was so bad that I got in between the two of them and broke it up, because I knew he wouldn't hit me of course. At that point in time, I was pregnant with his child.

Instead of stopping and making sure his partner, friend, "brother" - as he calls him was okay, Guru was sitting there saying, "I'm having an asthma attack. I need to go to the hospital. I think I'm gonna have a heart attack." He's bleeding, really shaking. Instead of stopping and calming himself down, Solar told me, "We're leaving," and goes and gets in the car and drives me back to the city. He didn't call and check on Guru, didn't make sure he was alright. That's probably one of the first times I was like, "Wow, this relationship is really unhealthy. It's a really sick relationship." After that, if I didn't physically see it myself...I saw Guru punched in the face numerous times with no provocation. It would just be that he'd get upset with something Guru would say and punch him in the face. I know he knocked a tooth out of Guru's. I know he gave him a black eye so Guru would have to wear glasses for photo-shoots and concerts.

holy shit

why would guru have to defend himself? what 'negative' things did he ever do? this is turning surprisingly weird.

that dj premier tribute to guru from his show is ok, but youd think premier would be a bit more sensitive. i think i liked premier more before i heard him speak.

that interview makes it sound like gurus last few years were really sad and hellish. poor guy. i always wonder in these sorts of situations why family/other people dont intervene more (as with odb) but who knows.

Premier speaks to Vibe:

http://www.vibe.com/content/dj-premier-opens-about-gurus-death-solar-gang-starr-reunion-more

jesus this is all so sad

Good interview.

this all really makes me wonder if guru was even able to seek proper medical attention for his sickness

yeah, a lot of this is weird and sad, especially how large contractual shit loomed over him right till the end.

For anyone who thinks that Guru just wasn't THAT good of a rapper, check out this one-verse story rap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv0lOAbdbik

So...did any 'expert' ever comment on the authenticity of the alleged Guru deathbed letter? Based on family comments, it seems pretty obvious Guru didn't write it, because he reportedly never actually came out of his coma. Since it wasn't a will, I guess there was no need to seek legal attention, but I still would think this grounds for fraud/libel? Can't find any articles after April 2010, so maybe the family just decided to let it go?