TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Gang Starr
Gang Starr
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.4071
Gang Starr Album Rankings
1
If you ever simplified the genius of hip-hop music, or considered rap to be a violent, angry form of urban noise with nihilistic poetry over drum machines that anyone could do passably, then you never
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2
The two-man Gang Starr crew, DJ Premier and Guru, has gotten lumped into the jazz-rap category back in '89 it was the first to pair hard bop with cool hop but it has since avoided becomi
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3
All the Gang Starr trademarks are in place, from Premier's perfect upchoruses to Guru's reedy voice cutting or instructing, and sounding better than ever.
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4
You don't hear much ofStep in the Arenaon Gang Starr's first album.
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5
On their seventh album, DJ Premier and rapper Guru have the amoral, musically simplistic idols of hip hop in their sights.
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6
It used to be that the DJ/MC team was the rule in hip hop, not the exception. Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay, Eric B.
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