Guru… Respect!
After Guru’s somewhat untimely death a couple of weeks ago, and the (what I consider shady) dealings that followed, I didn’t want to post just anything, so I searched the net listening to mixtapes and tributes, these are a couple of things that I enjoyed.
Out of all the stuff i listened too, I thought it would be best to repost some pieces from cats that actually knew Guru, because I feel there might be some cats trying to get some undue publicity off of dudes death.
So,, 1st up I heres a recording of Jazzmatazz live at Eurockéennes Festival (France) (2001) posted by DJ Premier. For me Jazzmatazz is a good representation of the sound and feel of the 90′s.
As I said I listened to a lot of Guru mixtapes, but nobody had as much passion as DJ Evil Dee on his Podcast. He touches most of the hits and the songs that you probably want to hear, but lets face it there are so many Gang Starr and Guru records it would be too much to play everything.