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GANG STARR
New York, USA
* 1988

Line-Up (2003):

DJ Premier
Guru

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	No More Mr. Nice Guy	1989	Wild Pitch
2.	Step In The Arena	1/1990	Cooltempo/Chrysalis		36	121
3.	Daily Operation	11.05.1992	Cooltempo
4.	Hard To Earn	08.03.1994	Cooltempo		29	25
5.	Moment Of Truth	2/1998	Cooltempo		43	6
6.	Full Clip: A Decade Of Gang Starr (6LP)	26.07.1999	Cooltempo		47	33
7.	No More Mr. Nice Guy	22.05.2001	Interscope
8.	The Ownerz	24.06.2003	Virgin		74	18
9.	The Owners (Instrumentals)	06.10.2003	Virgin
10.	Wild Pitch Classics & Latee & The Coup & Main Source & Umc's & Lor Finesse	06.12.2004	Wild Pitch
11.	Who's Hard? presents Big Shug	03.10.2005	All City
12.	Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr	02.01.2007	Virgin
13.	Street Champ credited to: Gang Starr Foundation presents Big Shug	23.07.2007	Babygrande
14.	Daily Operation Instrumentals	02.06.2011
15.	Icon	05.08.2014	Virgin
16.	One Of The Best Yet	06.12.2019	Gang Starr Enterprises			82

Guru:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Jazzmatazz Volume 1	18.05.1993	Chrysalis		58	94
2.	Jazzmatazz Vol.II New Reality	08.07.1995	Chrysalis		12	71
3.	Jazzmatazz StreetSoul credited to: Guru's Jazzmatazz	03.10.2000	Virgin		74	32
4.	Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures	11.07.2005	Seven Grand
5.	Jazzmatazz, Vol. 4: The Hip Hop Jazz Messenger	31.07.2007	Seven Grand
6.	Guru's Jazzmatazz: The Mixtape - Back To The Future	28.01.2008	Rapster
7.	The Best Of Guru's Jazzmatazz	11.02.2008	EMI
8.	8.0 Lost & Found	14.05.2009	7 Grand

DJ Premier:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Unreleased Instrumentals (repress)	03.11.1997	RBV
2.	Golden Years: The Remixes 1993-2000	30.12.2002	Noo Trybe
3.	Step Ya Game Up	01.11.2004
4.	Kings of Hip Hop & Mr. Thing	23.05.2005	Rapster
5.	Australia / New Zealand Tour Mixtape 2004	28.11.2005	Year Round
6.	Bad News Volume 1 & Teflon	13.02.2006
7.	God vs Tha Devil	08.05.2006	Year Round
8.	No Talent Required	13.11.2006	Year Round
9.	Re Program	12.02.2007	Year Round
10.	Rare Instrumental Joints Volume 01 (2LP)	15.10.2007	Noo Trybe
11.	Rare Instrumental Joints Vol 2 (2LP)	03.12.2007	DJ Premier
12.	Beats That Collected Dust	18.08.2008	Year Around
13.	Time 4 Change	27.10.2008	Year Round
14.	Thunder Storm Vol 1	10.07.2009	Guiness
15.	Thunder Storm Vol 2	10.07.2009	Guiness
16.	Originals	15.09.2009	Ais
17.	A Tribute To Michael & DJ Mister Cee	26.11.2009	A Tribute To Michael
18.	A Legendary DJ Battle: Round 1 & DJ Pete Rock (2CD/DVD)	24.07.2010	Manhattan
19.	Beats That Collected Dust Volume 2	19.05.2011	Year Round
20.	KoleXXXion & Bumpy Knuckles	31.03.2012	Gracie Productions
21.	Kolexxxion (Instrumentals) & Bumpy Knuckles	10.07.2012	Gracie Productions
22.	Kolexxxion (Acapellas) & Bumpy Knuckles	10.07.2012	Gracie Productions
23.	Instrumental World, Vol. 39	29.04.2016	Cutting Deep

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Jazz Thing	7/1990	CBS	66
2.	Step In The Arena	1990	Chrysalis
3.	Take A Rest	2/1991		63
4.	Lovesick	5/1991		50
5.	Take It Personal / Dwyck	1992
6.	2 Deep 12" + Take It Personal / Dwyck / Now You're Mine	01.06.1992	Cooltempo	67
7.	Mass Appeal	2/1994			67
8.	Code To The Street	10.10.1994	Cooltempo
9.	You Know My Steez	11/1997			76
10.	Full Clip	07.06.1999
11.	Skills / Natural	04.11.2002	Virgin
12.	Rite Girl Wrong Place / Rite Where U Stand	07.04.2003	Virgin
13.	The Ownerz / Same Team No Games (clean mix, explicit mix, instrumental)	29.09.2003	Virgin
14.	Dwyck & Smooth (feat. Nice)	26.04.2004	Virgin
15.	Steppin For The Devil / Bluesin' It (Dr Rubberfunk's Blues Explosion remix) / Dwyck & De La Soul & Dr Rubberfun & Omar & Dr Rubberfunk & McKay	06.09.2004	Soundly Beaten
16.	Now You're Mine / The ? Remainz	03.11.2008	Soul Sound
17.	Love Sick / The Militia (Soul Brother remix)	12.01.2009	Soul Sound
18.	Dwyck It Easy / Ska Junkies & Hopeton Lewis & The Heptones & Nice And Smooth	17.08.2009	Flex
19.	Now You're Mine / The ? Remainz	27.08.2010	Soul Star
20.	Full Clip / DWYCK	16.07.2012	Cooltempo
21.	Bra / Movin' On	28.09.2012	Originals
22.	Mass Appeal	16.10.2012	Chrysalis
23.	Parrty / Blame It / Who's Gonna Take The Weight & Maceo & The Macks	18.09.2014	Originals
24.	Bad Name	10/2019	Gang Starr

Guru:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Trust Me featuring N'Dea Davenport	8/1993		34
2.	No Time To Play feat. D.C. Lee	10/1993		25
3.	Watch What You Say feat. Chaka Khan	8/1995	Cooltempo	28
4.	Feel The Music	30.10.1995	Cooltempo	34
5.	Livin' In This World	01.07.1996	Cooltempo	61
6.	Keep Your Worries / I Wonder Why credited to: Guru's Jazzmatazz feat. Angie Stone	23.10.2000	Virgin	57
7.	Certified (Mr Shabz / So Solid Crew remixes) credited to: Guru's Jazzmatazz feat. Bilal	25.06.2001	Virgin
8.	What The Fuck / Pure Dynamite & Noe Money	23.09.2002	Big Brother
9.	Karma & Carl Thomas & Adam F	27.01.2003	Kaos
10.	Never Grow Up / Here We Go (clean mix, dirty mix, instrumental, acappella) & Krumbsnatcha	08.03.2004	Traffic Entertainment Group
11.	Espionage & DJ Cam	03.05.2004	Nocturne
12.	Cave In	09.08.2004	Traffic Entertainment Group
13.	Guru	14.03.2005	Guru
14.	Step In The Arena Part 2 (I'm Sayin) feat Doo Wop	27.06.2005	Seven Grand
15.	Pump Up (Twice Again Rhythm) / Pump Up Di Juice & Mr G	26.06.2006	Studio 2000
16.	Junk & Ferry Corsten	10/2006	Flashover
17.	State Of Clarity / Living Legend	11.06.2007	7 Grand
18.	Fine & Free / Cuz I'm Jazzy	02.07.2007	7 Grand
19.	Stand Up (Some Things'll Never Change) / Infinite & Blackalicious (featuring Damian Marley)	19.11.2007	7 Grand
20.	The 6th Man Sampler EP (Tasty / Illest Man / Superstition / Stokely / Like This & Like That) & Pharcyde & Doug E Fresh & Stokley & Lakiesha	31.10.2009	SB
21.	Just To Get A Rep (Jazz Chronicles Dedication) / Dwyck Boogie	22.11.2010	Vibes

DJ Premier:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Classic Works Of Mart Vol 2 (A Million & One Questions / Downtown Swinga / Everybody Wanna Know / Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers / Look 4 Tha Name / In The Trunk (Glove Compartment remix))	29.07.2002	Underground Classics
2.	The Remixes Vol 4 EP (Guilty / Lifestyles Of The Rich & Infamous / Me Not The Paper / Braggin Writes)	26.05.2003	Noo Trybe
3.	Play That Song / Gangsta Gangsta & Tony Touch & Nina Sky & B Real & Tego Calderon	01.08.2005	Rice & Beans
4.	Do Ya / On The Record	29.08.2005	Sure Shot
5.	We Gon Ill / Rhyme Crime Boss presents Blaq Poet	27.03.2006	Year Round
6.	Better Than I've Ever Been / Classic & Kanye West & Rakim & Krs One (feat Nas)	24.09.2007	Blackstreet
7.	Golden Tracks Of Premier Work EP (Bring It On / Stick To Ya Gunz / Queens Anthem (unreleased mix) / I Want To Know Ya Better / Big Machine Gun Funk (remix) / Music Evolution)	28.11.2009	Hip Hop Classic
8.	Ooh La La & Run The Jewels & Greg Nice	4/2020	BMG Rights

Videos:

1. Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr - 26.12.2006, Virgin, compilation

Various:

Compilation Appearances:

"The Squeeze" on OST "Training Day" (11.9.01, Warner Bros)
"Battle" on OST "8 Mile" (29.10.02, Shady/Interscope)
"You Know My Steez" on compilation "The Hip Hop Box Set" (20.4.04, Hip-O)

Guru:

Compilation Appearances:

"Johnny Was" on Bob Marley tribute LP "Bob Marley: A Rebel‘s Dream" (26.10.99)

appeared on the LP:

Prince Paul: Politics Of The Business (6.5.03, Razor & Tie)

DJ Premier:

appeared on the LP:

Prince Paul: Politics Of The Business (6.5.03, Razor & Tie)

produced by SP:

Skyzoo/Torae: Git It Done (4.6.07, Fat Beats)
Reks: Say Goodnight (11.8.08, Showoff)
Canibus: Golden Terra Of Rap (20.9.10, Interdependent)

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1990	0	27.10.1990	13	Stone Free
1992	20	16.05.1992	4	News
1992	20	16.05.1992	32	Albums	album review
1992	23	06.06.1992	3	News
1992	24	13.06.1992	31	Singles	single review
1994	6	12.02.1994	31	Albums	album review
1994	34	03.09.1994	32	Reading 94
1994	40	15.10.1994	32	Singles	single review
1994	42	29.10.1994	26	Live	gig review
1998	14	11.04.1998	44	Albums	album review
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1990	0	13.10.1990	42	Paradise
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1994	6	29.03.1994	25
Rolling Stone
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1999	7		12	Zoom
1999	8		98	Nová alba	album review