Pullin' Out My Lance To Kill You And Advance...
2009-01-31 by The Double K
Gang Starr – Step In The Arena
It’s finally time to come with a couple of tunes that I’ve had lined up for months now but never got round to posting. It’s just as well they’re timeless classics or they might have got stale in the meantime!
The amount of Hip-Hop posted here has tailed off dramatically over the last few months (at a rate way above the decline in postings in general), which is a bit of a shame because it’s great, as these tracks here demonstrate.
Gang Starr – the sublime combination of Premier’s awesome production skills with Guru’s unique lyrical flow – should be news to no-one, I know, but honestly when was the last time you dug them out for a listen? Take these posts as a reminder to do so at the earliest opportunity.
First up, the title track from Gang Starr’s seminal LP Step In The Arena – an instantly catchy guaranteed head-nodder of the first order. And the rest of the LP is equally brilliant – easily up there with P.E.’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions…. If you don’t know it already then you should certainly Get To Know, and if you do then treasure it like an old friend.
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I still spin this regularly. Killer album. It was a real wow moment when I first heard "California Soul" a few years back and realised Gang Starr had smapled it for "Check the Technique".
smapled? Must remember to proof-read, damn it!