Interview: DJ Premier Felt Guru's Spirit "Every Day" While Crafting New Gang Starr Album

publish date: 2019-11-02
source: hiphopdx

Now that DJ Premier has unveiled the first Gang Starr album in 16 years, One Of The Best Yet, there's an ample number of unanswered questions about how this historic project even came to be.
After all, Guru hasn't been with us on this physical plane for over nine years and any of the revered MC's unreleased lyrics have been held up in red tape — mostly because of producer Solar, who Guru had met in 2001 when Gang Starr was working on the duo's sixth album, The Ownerz.
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