{"id":10171,"date":"2010-04-20T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2010-04-27T01:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:25:46","slug":"r-i-p-guru-1966-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/r-i-p-guru-1966-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Guru (1961-2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10170\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/r-i-p-guru-1966-2010\/l_d2156df69c6c411ab341b37f5f06844c\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_d2156df69c6c411ab341b37f5f06844c.jpg?fit=446%2C629&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"446,629\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"guru_gangstarr\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_d2156df69c6c411ab341b37f5f06844c.jpg?fit=382%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_d2156df69c6c411ab341b37f5f06844c.jpg?fit=446%2C629&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10170\" title=\"guru_gangstarr\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_d2156df69c6c411ab341b37f5f06844c.jpg?resize=446%2C629&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_d2156df69c6c411ab341b37f5f06844c.jpg?w=446&amp;ssl=1 446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_d2156df69c6c411ab341b37f5f06844c.jpg?resize=382%2C540&amp;ssl=1 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legendary Gangstarr artist Guru has succumbed to cancer after a lengthy bout with the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, born Keith Elam, died on Monday April 19. He was 48 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Solar, Guru&#8217;s partner, expressed sadness over the loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world has lost one of the best MCs and Hip-Hop icons of all-time &#8212; my loyal best friend, partner, and brother, Guru,&#8221; Solar said in a statement. &#8220;Guru has been battling cancer for well over a year and has lost his battle! This is a matter that Guru wanted private until he could beat it, but tragically, this did not happen. The cancer took him. Now the world has lost a great man and a true genius.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/allhiphop.com\" target=\"_blank\">AllHipHop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BlackoutHipHop Team sends its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Keith Elam aka Guru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/l_d2156df69c6c411ab341b37f5f06844c.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-2E3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}