Gang Starr

Gang Starr lilikuwa kundi la muziki wa hip hop lenye athira kubwa ya East Coast hip hop. Kundi linaunganisha watu wawili, ambao ni MC Guru na DJ/mtayarishaji DJ Premier. Kundi hilo lilijulikana sana kwa staili ya aina yao, ambayo inajumlisha baadhi ya elementi za hip hop na swing jazz ya New York.

Historia 
Kundi lilianzishwa mnamo mwaka wa 1986 na Guru (baadaye akaja kujulikana kama Keithy E. The Guru) na DJ 1,2 B-Down (pia anajulikana kama Mike Dee) na watayarishaji kadhaa, kama vile Donald D, J.V. Johnson au DJ Mark the 45 King naye alisaidia kuanzishwa kwa kundi hili. Mnamo 1987 na 1988, Gang Starr wakatoa single ya kwanza iliyofanyika katika studio za Wild Pitch label.

Mnamo 1989, kundi likasambaratika na wanachama pekee waliotaka kuliendeleza kundi wakapendekeza jina la Gang Starr, na huyo alikuwa Guru. Baadaye akapata kuwasiliana na DJ Premier (baadaye akajakujulikana kama Waxmaster C) ambaye alimtumia tepu ya biti iliyompendeza Guru. Baada ya kuipata biti, akaona bora amwalike DJ Premier ili aungane na Gang Starr na katika mwaka huohuo wakatoa single yao iliyokwenda kwa jina la "Words I Manifest" ikiwa sambamba na albamu iliyopewa jina la "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (1989).

Wakati wa shughuli zao Gang Starr walisaidia kuvumbua sauti ya hip hop ya New York. Matoleo yote ya Gang Starr, hasa Step in the Arena (1991), Daily Operation (1992) "Hard to Earn" (1994) na Moment of Truth (1998) zilipata heshima kubwa saana. Wimbo wa "Jazz Thing", uliokuwemo kwenye filamu ya  Spike Lee ya Mo' Better Blues, ilisaidia kuinua sauti ya jazz rap.

Gang Starr Foundation

Hali ya sasa

Discografia 
 No More Mr. Nice Guy
 Imetolewa: 1989
 Billboard 200 chati: -
 R&B/Hip-Hop chati: 83
 Mauzo ya U.S.: 53,000
 Single: "Words I Manifest"/"DJ Premier In Deep Concentration"/"Here's The Proof", "Positivity"/"No More Mr. Nice Guy (Remix)"

 Step in the Arena
 Imetolewa: 15 Januari 1991
 Billboard 200 chati: 121
 R&B/Hip-Hop chati: 19
 Mauzo ya U.S.: 287,000
 Single: "Just To Get A Rep"/"Who's Gonna Take The Weight?", "Love Sick"/"What You Want This Time?"/"Credit Is Due", "Step In The Arena"/"Check The Technique (Remix)"/"Credit Is Due"

 Daily Operation
 Imetolewa: 5 Mei 1992
 Billboard 200 chati: 65
 R&B/Hip-Hop chati: 14
 Mauzo ya U.S.: 297,000
 Single: "2 Deep"/"Take It Personal"/"Ex Girl to Next Girl"/"B.Y.S."/"Soliloquy of Chaos"

 Hard to Earn
 Imetolewa: 8 Machi 1994
 Billboard 200 chati: 25
 R&B/Hip-Hop chati: 2
 Mauzo ya U.S.: 389,000
 Single: "Code of the Streets"/"Speak Ya Clout", "Dwyck", "Mass Appeal", "Suckas Need Bodyguards"/"The ? Remainz"/"Now You're Mine"

 Moment of Truth
 Imetolewa: 31 Machi 1998
 Matunukio: Dhahabu
 Billboard 200 chati: 6
 R&B/Hip-Hop chati: 1
 Mauzo ya U.S.: 500,000
 Singles: "Royalty", "You Know My Steez"/"So Wassup?",  "The Militia"/"You Know My Steez (Three Men And A Lady Remix)"

 Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr
 Imetolewa: 13 Julai 1999
 Matunukio: Dhahabu
 Billboard 200 chati: 33
 R&B/Hip-Hop chati: 11
 Single: "1/2 & 1/2"/"Gangsta Bounce", "Full Clip"/"Dwyck", "All 4 Tha Ca$h"/"The ? Remainz", "Discipline"/"Just To Get A Rep"

 The Ownerz
 Imetolewa: 24 Juni 2003
 Billboard 200 chati: 18
 R&B/Hip-Hop chati: 5
 UK chati: 74
 Mauzo ya U.S.: 191,000
 Single: "Skills"/"Natural", "Nice Girl, Wrong Place"/"Rite Where U Stand", "The Ownerz"/"Same Team, No Games"

 Mass Appeal: Best of Gang Starr
 Imetolewa: 26 Desemba 2006
 Billboard 200 chati:
 R&B/Hip-Hop chati:
 Single:
 Gang Starr appeared on the Brand New Heavies 1992 album "Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1 " with a track called "It's Gettin' Hectic"

Marejeo

Viungo vya Nje 
 Year Round Records  DJ Premier's label site
 Guru - Who he's worked with + discography 
 DJ Premier - Who he's worked with + discography 
 "Jazz and Hip-Hop"  by Jared Pauley, (Jazz.com )
 Whatever Happened To Gang Starr (Cartoon) 

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