Heavy D & Herb McGruff - I Miss Youġ7) Mary J. Smif-N-Wessun - I Love Youĩ) KRS-One - MC's Act Like They Don't Knowġ6) Monifah ft. Erick Sermon & Keith Murray - Vibin'Ĩ) Mary J. Hip Hop and R&B mixtape recorded back in 1995. While listening to the mix, I challenge you to think of any Hip Hop act who could fill 33 minutes (with 31 tracks no less) with the same level of quality music. With 31 tracks squeezed into just 33 minutes, the mix is a potent blend of 90% of the essential GangStarr tracks (I'll leave 10% for all of you to moan and groan about). In other words, shine a light on Primo's GangStarr production without boring an audience that is very familiar with the music, but still entertain that same audience with the quality of the mix. With this mix, I wanted to do exactly what the title suggests, create a soliloquy of GangStarr beats with a few Guru verses thrown-in here and there. Anybody who is a Primo fan knows that he saved his best beats for the GangStarr albums.

However, you may notice that there are countless Best of Primo mixes, but not many mixes devoted just to GangStarr. In creating this GangStarr mix, I am well aware that I am kinda, sorta, reinventing the wheel here. On the other hand, if you can make a great pizza there is nothing better in the world to eat.

It's difficult to royally screw up, but it's very easy to make it bland and forgettable. Making a GangStarr mix is a lot like making a pizza. Though the original description of the mix has little to do with Guru's death, I thought I'd include it just to give the mix a little context. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode. This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. Originally released by in 2008, I'm re-posting this mix to commemorate Guru's passing. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. But it's an unmistakably modern album, and one which perfectly encapsulated the artist's reputation among his peers and fans as a top-rated architect of soulful hip-hop.Yup, it's been a year since Guru passed away. It plays part like a DJ mix, part like a hip-hop beat maker at work, its songs starting and stopping unexpectedly, like someone turning the dial on an imaginary radio station. Donuts began simply enough as an idea to turn a particularly good demo beat tape into a full-length release, and has since became a classic hip-hop album, one of the defining works of the artist's life.Ĭompleted during a year in which J Dilla spent mostly in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Donuts would gain particular poignancy when, only three days after it's release, February 10, 2006, the artist passed away, losing his battle with a rare blood disease.Īnnounced in Fall 2005, the concept of a “rap album without rappers” struck some as minor novelty, but Donuts would prove to transcend the rigid definitions of what a hip-hop album could be.

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