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Title: Guru interview
Post by: rob_one on April 18, 2009, 06:33:00 PM
Guru and Solar: Ma** appeal

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Guru and Solar like giving hip-hop all that jazz. Rob One warms up. First published in London Tourdates 09/04/09.

We're listening to Guru's new album. The legendary MC - the man who gave us hip-hop cla**ics like 'You Know My Steez' and 'Ma** Appeal' - is using autotune.

It's a shock, to say the least. The vocal production technique, beloved of T-Pain and Kanye West, is not perhaps what we'd call an ideal fit for one of the most distinctive flows in hip-hop. Hearing Guru on autotune is a bit like finding the Pope mud-wrestling at Glastonbury.

For more of this interview, go to www.robboffard.com
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Mad on April 18, 2009, 09:31:07 PM
Guru and Solar: Ma** appeal

(http://www.tourdates.co.uk/resources/GetImage-CT-1519-1.jpg)

Guru and Solar like giving hip-hop all that jazz. Rob One warms up. First published in London Tourdates 09/04/09.

We're listening to Guru's new album. The legendary MC - the man who gave us hip-hop cla**ics like 'You Know My Steez' and 'Ma** Appeal' - is using autotune.

It's a shock, to say the least. The vocal production technique, beloved of T-Pain and Kanye West, is not perhaps what we'd call an ideal fit for one of the most distinctive flows in hip-hop. Hearing Guru on autotune is a bit like finding the Pope mud-wrestling at Glastonbury. For more of this interview, go to www.robboffard.com



ok that was funny, ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaa,  man dont tell me you trying to start a beef with the pope?


on the topic, im the last person whom rob one expected to comment on this thread, if he really feels that way i wouldnt blame him, im the last person coz u knw why? i dont even know who these dudes his talking about are
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Omero's Daddy on April 19, 2009, 06:10:28 AM
I've struggled to get into the post Primo Guru. Solar's not bad, but he sounds very ordinary to me.
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: oints on April 19, 2009, 10:47:42 AM
truth be told, when i heard a snippet from the latest Gifted Unlimited album with Solar, i was at Alias' house and Rob was bumpin it for us, he warned me in particular cos i think Alias had already had his filling ;D, but suffice to say i didnt take his warning serious enough...high as a mu'f***er i wasnt at all ready for what i was going to hear...it still burns my ears to this day, and i havent heard it since then....im sorry but f*** it i gotta say it:

GURU NEEDS TO GET SLAPPED across the face, firstly because somewhere in his deluded mind he actually thinks what  he is doing is HIPHOP :-\

secondly, because i really really admired duke, i grew up listening to his words, learnt so much and revered him for what he stood for (Moment of truth is still my most favorite album to date), i am ashamed to admit it, but he has fallen from grace in my eyes.

he will need a miracle if he is to recover from this disastrous time in his career, either that or he should just hang up the mic (REAL TALK)........ wack wack wack wack!

"no matter what we fears, we all must meet our moment of truth"

well he was confronted with his, and he got murked.... :'(
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Omero's Daddy on April 19, 2009, 12:53:43 PM
Moment of Truth is my shizzle too. In fact i love the whole catalog. Ownerz was slept on.
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: oints on April 19, 2009, 08:52:51 PM
Moment of Truth is my shizzle too. In fact i love the whole catalog. Ownerz was slept on.

Ownerz WAS slept on!  i mean, to me, personlay i feel its in that record that the detachment was more evident...and not because it was the last album they did together, but Premo's beats were nice enough to have been executed better...Guru just didnt step up to the plate for me there...

but we still listened to it, and got shocked when he got himself bodied by Jada on Right were you stand, giving him the Chorus as well, making the track seem more and more unlike his...

its sad, but little do we notice, we are witnessing a legend lose the artform, something i thought he understood so well... :-\
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: rob_one on April 19, 2009, 09:14:29 PM
Anybody read the interview? Thoughts?

Some good points so far though. Cosign Oints.
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Omero's Daddy on April 19, 2009, 09:27:31 PM
THe interview was okay, to be honest, i don't think there is anything of interest you could have asked regarding Guru, asides from the infamous Premo question... Solar dominates the interview, as usual. They don't seem like an easy bunch to interview. Its like they are only interested in answering question that allow them to toot their own horns at every turn. Its like Guru has this tremendously strong desire to sell us his ideas, concepts and Solar. It was a hard interview to read through with all the Solarganda.

7 Grand Deez Nutz


 
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Soul Amazin' on April 19, 2009, 09:46:19 PM
Rob, wer is the interview, cant seem to find it....hook up a direct link please....
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: rob_one on April 19, 2009, 10:38:18 PM
Rob, wer is the interview, cant seem to find it....hook up a direct link please....

http://robboffard.com/page9.htm

@Nyambo, thanks. The DJ 279 interview further down the page (on the link above) is a bit more fun. But Guru wouldn't even TALK about Premo. He got pretty pissed off when I pushed him on it.
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Omero's Daddy on April 19, 2009, 10:45:30 PM
Same thing happened to Mizi a few years ago when he interviewed Guru for Hype. Apparently Guru got all rude and was a pretty much hostile interviewee
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: oints on April 19, 2009, 11:40:46 PM
Anybody read the interview? Thoughts?

They don't seem like an easy bunch to interview. Its like they are only interested in answering question that allow them to toot their own horns at every turn. Its like Guru has this tremendously strong desire to sell us his ideas, concepts and Solar. It was a hard interview to read through with all the Solarganda.


yeah, i read the interview too Rob, in my opinion you asked all the right questions, you were totaly unbias  and asked what had to be asked, and i recall how Guru's whole tone changed and got semi inflamed when u asked him the Premo question, cos i listened to your pre-transcribed version of that one in particular.

thus, i share Nyambo's sentiments when it comes to Guru's frame of mind right now, he does seem to take a very a**ertive stance to who he is right now and what he's doing with his career, a need to affirm not only with us but with himself that what he's doing right now is whats best for HIM, sad, but as desperate as it seems, he cant afford to second guess himself. or maybe he should be....

which leads me to think he's been ridiculed and scolded alot about this collaboration of his with Solar, ergo why he keeps plucking him throughout the interview...some may see it as normal however to talk about your producer with faith and trust. with enough conviction he might even convince some that what Solar brings out of him and to the cooking pot in general is gourmet... :-\

I, on the other hand have been a listener/fan/admirer of duke's work for far too long to belive that "he is on the right track", he completly lost the plot....he is never going to be the same again.
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Mad on April 20, 2009, 01:43:54 PM
ive check out the interview, as far as im concerned i have nothing to say about the artists interviewed by rob but i do have  lot to say about the interview generally, rob the interview is great, well carried out and reported, i think in future you should try to design a normal type of interview where u make a distinction between quetions and answers, i understand that maybe you were trying to make this one seem more like a a story or somthing of that nature but dude u need to make the ish easy to read, its a great piece of work but i just dont like the way you designed it.


its now like im reading an article featured on a hip hop magazine.
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Mad on April 20, 2009, 01:51:53 PM
ey rob, do u do the interviews just for fun or do you work for some media agency? do u get compensated for this by any chance?
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: rob_one on April 20, 2009, 01:58:42 PM
My God...a coherent response from Mad? Is the world exploding?

Anyway, thanks. The story vs. Q&A thing is a format issue - we don't do Q&A stuff where I work for long features.

It's my job. www.tourdates.co.uk
Title: Re: Guru interview
Post by: Mad on April 20, 2009, 07:14:23 PM
My God...a coherent response from Mad? Is the world exploding?

Anyway, thanks. The story vs. Q&A thing is a format issue - we don't do Q&A stuff where I work for long features.

It's my job. www.tourdates.co.uk



lets just say i became tired of being ag's most hated, you got a great job man, how did u got hired on such a very far destination? do you got any relatives living in england by any chance?