{"id":4733,"date":"2014-03-07T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:21:32","slug":"gang-starr-hard-to-earn-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/?p=4733","title":{"rendered":"Gang Starr &#8211; Hard to Earn 20th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hardtoearn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4734\" alt=\"hardtoearn\" src=\"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hardtoearn.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hardtoearn.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hardtoearn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hardtoearn-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember when this came out&#8230; Gang Starr had just come off of <em>Step in the Arena<\/em> &amp; <em>Daily Operation<\/em>, so I was thinking that perhaps this wouldn&#8217;t measure up.\u00a0 Well, there was nothing to worry about.\u00a0 20 years later, still sounds fresh.<\/p>\n<p>The folks at UpNorthTrips and NahRight posted <a href=\"http:\/\/nahright.com\/news\/the-making-of-gang-starrs-hard-to-earn-with-dj-premier\/\">an interview with DJ Premier<\/a> which goes through the making of the album track by track.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great interview which details the history\u00a0 of what was going on as well as some insight into his general production process.\u00a0 The Vinylcologist also did a special mix using instrumentals from the album with the original samples.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace to Guru, the Gang Starr legacy is strong.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/138389248&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>via @upnorthtrips and @nahright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when this came out&#8230; Gang Starr had just come off of Step in the Arena &amp; Daily Operation, so I was thinking that perhaps this wouldn&#8217;t measure up.\u00a0 Well, there was nothing to worry about.\u00a0 20 years later, still sounds fresh. The folks at UpNorthTrips and NahRight posted an interview with DJ Premier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1066,679,3357,3359,3358],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-20th-anniversary","tag-gang-starr","tag-hard-to-earn","tag-nahright","tag-upnorthtrips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4736,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegiantpeachnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}