GANG STARR POLL

hard to earn

def

That was a great year.

I don't think I can decide between Daily Operation, Hard to Earn, and Moment of Truth. All of 'em are near-classics, none quite besting the other.

Hard To Earn beats Daily Operation by a nose. Less filler. But "Take It Personal" is my favorite Gang Starr single!

hard to fucking earn

breath stinkin' like a motherfucker
spittin' and shit

moment of truth is pretty good on the whole but I could never vote for a record that contains "at the mall"

heinous

Section 2. Jazz
Juris, Vic
Horizon Drive: (Muse 1980)
* "Horizon Drive"
GangStarr - "Mass Appeal"

FUCKING CLASSIC

Guru sounds so wise and seen-it-all. Who cares if he sounds half-asleep.

hard to earn

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

been my favorite since forever

"The Planet" "code of the streets," "speak ya clout," "suckas need bodyguards," "dwyck" and of course motherfucking mass appeal, basically flawless

step in the arena thru moment of truth is all fire tho
w/ some great moments on the other two

'step in the arena' rules

^^^this

fake mcs, they always act hard
but wont walk the streets without a bodyguard

dwyck is my favorite song of all time

otm

is dwyck an acronym for something

i just realized i have no idea why thats the title

it stands for 'do what ya can, kid'

i miss nice & smooth ;_; ;_;

apparently, this site has an interview with guru explaining what "dwyck" means:

GURU: “It was just a slang that we used to use back then. It was like a slang thing we used to do. Greg Nice used to do it to everybody. Biz Markie started it actually. You used be in a crowd and say someone’s name and go ‘Yo! Son!’ The person would turn around and go ‘What? What?’ and you would say: ‘Dwyck!’. It’s like ‘My dick!’. It means the male genitalia. We switched it up to ‘Dwyck’. It was just some sh*t to psyche each other out.”

premo refers to the track as dwyck (do what ya can kid) on one of his official mixtape tracklists

do what ya can kid (with my dick)

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Damn, are you guys kidding? I always thought of Hard to Earn as one of their worst...it's not bad, but I'd say it's barely above average. Daily Operation is one of my favorite rap albums. Moment of Truth is great too.

In 2007 a social network was created using a moniker of the album name. Daily Operation is a hip hop social network dedicated to the advocacy of superior artists such as Gang Starr.

http://friends.filecloud.com/416104/846770001172710433.new.gif

It's like hypnosis.

lol

I just listened to Hard to Earn the other day, better than I remembered.

kinda love this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EWJ9JrxU0g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCo_lR3Pp0

questlove

so Primo confirmed on sirius radio that Guru had heart attack & is in a coma and will undergo surgery tomorrow. #guru

:-(

this was a weird poll

would be worth a re-poll. Moment of Truth seems to have gained steam over the years. I could see it giving Hard to Earn a run. I would vote for it, def my go to GS album any more.

Yo, it doesn't make sense, for you to compete against
This New York vibe that gets your whole body tense
Calm down, listen to a brother who knows
Cause the rappers out here come up with mad different types of flows
Switch-up, change-up, yo pull the range up
So we can build on this shit, for real that's how we came up
Used to ride the subway trains back and forth
Now I push an E-Class, four-two-zero of course
Still material gains, make one more aware
Of all the madness and the civil unrest that's out here
I doubt there, is anyplace more complex
You can get lost in the sauce, New York'll have you vexed