{"id":90385,"date":"2015-06-10T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=90385"},"modified":"2015-06-10T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:16:58","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-gang-starr-video-press-kit-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-gang-starr-video-press-kit-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day &#8211; Gang Starr Video Press Kit (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"90386\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-gang-starr-video-press-kit-1990\/gang-starr-bw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?fit=2400%2C1801&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2400,1801\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gang-starr-bw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?fit=540%2C405&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?fit=640%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"gang-starr-bw\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?resize=540%2C405&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gang-starr-bw.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A VHS Promo sent out by <strong>Chrysalis Records<\/strong> at the time the legendary Hip Hop group, <strong>Gang Starr<\/strong> was getting ready to release their 2nd album <em>Step In The Arena<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>It includes rare footage of <strong>DJ Premier &#038; Guru<\/strong> in the studio working on their album and also a rare interview with a few clips from their live performance and videos backed up by a few words from others. They were so young at the time, a viewer would&#8217;ve thought they were making a demo, especially when <strong>DJ Premier<\/strong> says who he is and what he does, so funny.<\/p>\n<p>Props to <strong>DJ Sandman<\/strong> who shared this from his VHS Promo.<\/p>\n<p>Just before I wrapped up this post, I realized this had already been posted on Blackout in 2013., but it&#8217;s more than appropriate for this section and maybe you missed it the first time.<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P. GURU (July 17, 1961 \u2014 April 19, 2010)<\/p>\n<p>Peace<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ev7BJ14Yu28\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A VHS Promo sent out by Chrysalis Records at the time the legendary Hip Hop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-nvP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90385","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}