Like love and spirit, trying to neatly define the nature of soul is hard. Perhaps, because like love and spirit, soul is nuanced and felt. Perhaps, because soul is many things to many people. The heart and the soul are connected, so soul is from within.
Soul is an eternal force.
Strictly speaking, Guru, the vocal half of the acclaimed hip-hop machine that is Gang Starr, is not a soul artist. At least not in the time tested notion of the term. Yet over the course of his career, both with his partner DJ Premier and on his genre expanding Jazzmatazz projects, Guru has injected everything he does, from bebop to hip-hop and all that lies between, with something meaningful. You could call it soul. On his third Jazzmatazz project, Guru's definition of soul is unleashed and displayed and allowed to seep into your consciousness.