{"id":209156,"date":"2025-04-20T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=209156"},"modified":"2025-04-20T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:32:47","slug":"rest-in-peace-guru-of-gang-starr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/rest-in-peace-guru-of-gang-starr\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in peace, Guru of Gang Starr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (April 19th) marked 15 years since the passing of a cherished emcee and a true Hip-Hop icon, <strong>Gang Starr&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>Guru<\/strong>. The renowned lyricist is still &#8220;one of the best yet,&#8221; and his many classics are still bursting through speakers all over the world, on the daily. To commemorate Guru, we&#8217;ve decided to revisit his 2002 freestyle from a Danish radio show, &#8220;Det Store Mix,&#8221; with DJ Power and DJ Typhoon.<br \/>\nAs always, he graced the mic with impeccable rhymes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y74ZIU7LEHU?si=fp0-a3giMAAL6AZd\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (April 19th) marked 15 years since the passing of a cherished emcee and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":209161,"comment_status":"closed","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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Guru-Commemoration-Thumbnail.webp?fit=617%2C409&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Spu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209156","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}