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“Real Hip Hop’s been lost but now it’s found right here,”
Guru recently declared in a London hotel room. The rapper, made legendary for his work alongside
DJ Premier as the wordsmith of Hip Hop duo Gang Starr, was back in town “on a global grind” with producer and business partner
Solar to promote their latest work together on 7 Grand Records;
Guru 8.0: Lost and Found, which features Solar on the mic for the first time. I last spoke to the pair in the summer of 2007, when it was clear the duo were on a mission to shake up the impact of ‘intelligent’ independent Hip Hop. Catching up two years on, their path hasn’t changed... But has the climate?
