![]() ![]() So with the decade's third outing and their fourth overall, they delivered a minimal, deeply funky head-cracker, returning to the noise of Public Enemy with a slick groove all their own (though the walking bassline of "Mostly Tha Voice" shows they didn't abandon jazz cool altogether). ![]() ![]() Producer DJ Premier was bristling somewhat from Gang Starr being saddled with the "jazz-rap" tag after three albums of smooth samplework and MC Guru's mellow, critically acclaimed Jazzmatazz, Vol. Though Gang Starr's four '90s albums represent one of East Coast rap's most consistently great runs, 1994's Hard to Earn is arguably the duo at their fullest flower, a defining document of boom bap full of hard-nosed boasts and hard-knocking beats. ![]()
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