Premier Speaks On Continuing the Legacy of Gang Starr after Guru

April 30th, 2010

…Also more of Solar interview video on MTV.

Vibe did a length interview with DJ Premier about the passing of his former partner in Hip Hop, Guru. Here are some snippets

Viber: What do you hope for the future of the Gang Starr legacy?

DJ Premier: “I want the name to stay alive… but the right way. I don’t have a hidden agenda. His son should get that money. Of course I’ll get my half and that’s not on no selfish shit. That’s just off of what we built together. Nothing can take away from what Gang Starr did. That’s what I was stressing to Guru before he passed. We have tons of footage and DVD material that could have been sold. This is way before he was sick.

I plan to discuss what can be done with Guru’s family. I don’t care if it’s from a lawyer’s standpoint. The main thing is we never dissolved our Gang Starr contract. We are still signed to each other. We never disbanded the group. If Guru really wanted to super dead it he would have said, ‘Yo, I want out.’ And I still would have tried to convince him to stay. We are still Gang Starr.”

VIBE: Do you feel like your relationship with Guru has been misrepresented by Solar?

DJ Premier: Well, I’ve always held down Guru… His spirit knows this. He used to get upset about so much stuff when we were dealing with the label all the time. We both would be upset. But I would take the calls because when he was upset he would flip [Laughs], where you might not be able to handle him when he’s wilding out. With me, although I had a temper, I was much calmer about it.

VIBE: When was the last time you spoke to Guru?

DJ Premier: It was March 30, 2004. April 1 was the last email I received from him and I just found it in my computer. We were pretty much going at it about him straightening his life up with the drinking and everything… just getting himself together. Because talent wise, drinking or sober, he was always on point in the lab. He could lay down his vocals with no problem and he always wrote his rhymes dope. When he wrote his rhymes on page they were so messy [Laughs]. I used to ask him, “How can you even recite the verses and flow?” He would be in the booth turning the paper upside down while he’s still rhyming and without having to punch in.
(VIBE)

Also talking on his satalite radio show Premier revealed his last hospital visit with Guru.

“If you love him, and you’re taking care of him, why the f**k did his nails look longer than a f*cking ruler?!” Premier directed toward Guru’s partner Solar during a Sirius broadcast. “[And] a clump Afro?! I’ve taken care of people in the hospital [before]. You can wash their hair and clean their nails off. His feet were swollen and his toenails were really disgusting…I took the logo on my shirt and rubbed it against his whole body and told him a message from me about how much I loved him, and that we were for life and still were for life. Then I kissed him on his face and let him know that I was going to miss him because it seemed like he was already gone.” (All Hip Hop)

You can listen to DJ Premier’s Guru Salute Mix , and here were he says the above about his Guru hospital visit and more. [listen where other dude in the studio says Solar didn't have time to take care of Guru "when you busy falsifying documents, and shit." Listen to the 13:40 mark]

Solar on he and Guru being gay:
“That’s untrue, completely unfounded,” he said. “Guru is a family man, I’m a family man. I don’t want to say anything against anybody living a certain type of lifestyle — everybody is free to live their life how they choose to live it — but that’s not my lifestyle or Guru’s lifestyle. We’re straight men. He dealt with women and family. I dealt with women and family. There’s never been any blurring of the lines whatsoever.” (MTV)

On a Guru Tribute:
After writing a fake letter saying that Guru didn’t want to have anything to do with Premier even in his death, now Solar wants Premo to be apart of his Guru tribute concert so that he can gain legitamcy with the fans who have scorched him since Guru’s passing.

Yeah, I see right through this bull. First he thought he’d gain legitimacy by ex-ing out Preem, and having himself anointed through Guru’s supposed words. Now that that’s completely backfired, this is his new game. Watch:

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2 Responses to “Premier Speaks On Continuing the Legacy of Gang Starr after Guru”

  1. Pam on April 30th, 2010 9:48 pm | link

    Wow, I have never seen anything like this. Solar is one creepy snake in the grass.

  2. D. Yobachi Boswell on May 1st, 2010 12:35 am | link

    He is indeed. This whole situation is something else.

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