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Step In The Arena (CD)

By: Gang Starr (Artist)

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Gang Starr Artist Snapshot:

Striking the perfect balance between street cred and sophisticated musicality, Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr emerged as hip-hop pioneers in the late 1980s with their sophisticated, jazz-influenced (but still funk-based) sound. They are the rare rap troupe who command respect from every corner of the rap spectrum, as evidenced by their track record of collaborations, including everyone from jazzman Branford Marsalis to Brooklyn gangster rap-dudes M.O.P. DAILY OPERATION and HARD TO EARN remain among the classic albums of the genre. Guru would go on to release a groundbreaking series of jazz-rap collaborations entitled JAZZMATAZZ.

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DISC 1 for Step In The Arena (CD) Album By Gang Starr (Artist)
1   Name Tag (Premier And The Guru)
2   Step In The Arena
3   Form Of Intellect
4   Execution Of A Chump (No More Mr. Nice Guy Part 2)
5   Who's Gonna Take The Weight?
6   Beyond Comprehension
7   Check The Technique
8   Love Sick
9   Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
10   Game Plan
11   Take A Rest
12   What You Want This Time?
13   Street Ministry
14   Just To Get A Rep
15   Say Your Prayers
16   As I Read My S-A
17   Precisely The Right Rhymes
18   Meaning Of The Name, The
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (1/25/91) - "..busts rhythms that boast without resorting to misogyny and profanity. And their lazy backbeats and playful brass flourishes serve as a backdrop not only for humour..but even wisdom." - Rating: B

Title Note

Gang Starr: Guru (vocals); DJ Premier (DJ).

Additional personnel: Lisle Leete (piano).

Recorded at Calliope Productions, New York, Firehouse Studios and Such-A-Sound Studio, Brooklyn, New York.

Reflecting the combination of inner-city upbringing and college education which both members share, Gang Starr manages to attain the perfect balance of intellect and street credibility; harder than so-called hard-core, more experimental than "experimental hip-hop" and funkier than 99.9 percent of mainstream rap's party jam output. In a culture based on battles and an industry known for feuds and ego-clashes, Gang Starr is perhaps the only outfit to command respect from every corner of the hip-hop spectrum. Individually or as a unit, Guru & Premier have collaborated with "alternative" hip-hop crews (De La Soul, Digable Planets, Dream Warriors), jazz artists (Donald Byrd, Branford Marsalis) R&B stars (Janet Jackson, K-Ci & Jo-Jo) and hard-core MC's (KRS ONE, M.O.P., Notorious B.I.G) without ever compromising their cult status in the underground.

Their second album STEP IN THE ARENA is the release that truly put the duo on map after "Manifest" and "Jazz Thing" first garnered public attention. In addition to pioneering the incorporation of jazz samples into the hip-hop canon of funk & soul drum breaks, this record witnessed DJ Premier single-handedly lifting the orchestration of turntable cuts to the level of a jazz soloist improvising on another musician's phrase.

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