Reacting to "Moment of Truth" by Gang Starr

Followed you on YT for years, but just started supporting you Bob. If you have time, Brother Ali will be an artist that meets your high standards for bars with substance! Peace and love from MPLS

Gotta do M.O.P - Warriorz at some point, Bob!

Now you have to check out the DJ Premier's Tiny Desk, live instruments to these beats is just pure fire!

Billy Wood Aethiopes would be nice, dope ass album and in my humble opinion, his best, bar none.

Rosalia soon?

Guru flows forever! 🔥 ❤️

Had to come to Patreon for this one! Guru with Mos Def have been my favorite MC's since the beginning when I got into Hip Hop. Both such a talented writers, with great message and some of the best rhymes & flow in the game. It was really fun to see you liking both Black on Both Sides and now this so much. What I'm Here 4 is the most underrated rap song of all time imo, one of my favorites from the album too and one you can put on almost anytime and it just never gets old. I hope with the "1 classic a month" schedule next year we can get another Gang Starr album reaction and another Mighty Mos Def reaction would be appreciated as well. Take care Bob!

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Guru is incredible. His best work is also in Jazzmatazz vol 2 (vol 1 is good, but vol 2 is better in my opinion). Jazzy vibes, a bunch of features, killer lyrics too

I had to come here for this one. 2026 is gonna be a good year, at least once a month.

That's what's up

"B.I. vs Friendship" wasn't necessarily your jam, Bob, but please keep an ear open for M.O.P. (you might have heard "Ante Up" in the background somewhere).... Billy Danze and Lil Fame are SO LIVE and funny and hardcore at all times, often backed by DJ Premier production on their albums, and "What The Future Holds" by M.O.P. in 1998 is possibly a top 100 hip hop song for me personally for starters

In a 90s and early 00s world of talking about OLD SCHOOL vs NEW SCHOOL, Gangstarr always rightfully represented among that TRUE SCHOOL of hip hop essence at the time... With their aesthethics and connections and with so many elevated hip hop tracks (about 8-9 of them and some really good ones on this album) with that foundational feel to them, Gangstarr felt like a centering of all the worlds that hip hop could venture out to... So with that said, RIP GURU <3 <3 <3 I remember in 2010 after Nas created such a stir with the Hip Hop Is Dead album and the debates that endured after it, after all of that to suddenly hear of GURU falling ill and eventually the news of him dying while still in a super weird feud-like relationship to DJ Premier, that's when hip hop really died to me (at the moment), because generally my hopes had been tied to an eventual Gangstarr reunion to get the bar up to where it's supposed to be and get us all centered again, and now it was gone :( But like you said Bob, "The gems on this album shine, they really shine" this was a great way to put it. The best Gangstarr tracks are what ascends them to the highest tiers that DJ Premier explores elsewhere as well, but Gangstarr remains the foundation that it comes from

The title track is so good.... I remember when I noticed the flip after a couple of casual listens, I had to go back and figure out when it happened. But it's so resonant and so cool how Guru does it. Especially with "JFK to LAX" as a primer a couple of tracks before, this is him being put to the test and the response

Hearing Bob get into the "Above the Cloudz" beat and verses was worth the price of admission alone... Reminded me of the Common - "Be" intro reaction a couple of years back, just feels good to see it

Thank you bob I appreciate u coming around to it :) didnt watch yet but I hope u enjoyed it

Finally !!

What a treat! RIP GURU

Been waiting for another oldie so glad you decided to do this album If you want another good album from guru then you should look in the jazzmatazz series with live instrumentation.

Can't wait to watch this! And just in time for the Nas & DJ Premier album "Light-Years" dropping on december 13th too

If you wanna do some LL Cool J, I highly recommend his comeback album Mama Said Knock You Out

Christmas 2002, I was 6 years old and got a GameCube with Dave Mirra BMX 2 and the title track from this album is on the soundtrack. I think it might be my favorite song so I'm super excited see your reaction.

Been very excited for this! I you wanna react to some new music, I recommend the new de la soul. Early to tell but might be their best

FINALLY

YES I DIDNT THINK YOUD EVER GET TO THIS