Agree. One of Preem's hardest beats ever. What did it for me was that thumpin bassline he layed over the drums. Preem knows what real funk is. When he mixes those funky basslines w his beats, he can't lose. Guru flowed nice over it too
This is one of my, and I mean one of my most, favorite Gang Starr Songs. Guru was all over the beat. Dope song and Dope Flow. When Kanye said he would sleep with this album on... I did the same thing.
Hard To Earn has always been my fav Gangstarr album. Awesome to hear it’s Primo’s fav too. Drums on this track are crazy smackin, funky ass bassline, and that siren is so ill. Of course you got the signature touch of those Premier cuts too. And GURU spit the truth on it with his usual style and grace. May he Rest In Peace.🔥🎙🔥 Mad props to the legendary Gangstarr.🔥 And as always, respect the Floppy Y’all! Peace.💾🔥💾🔥💾🔥💾🔥💾
@@Karmaisabliss215 I hear you. Moment of Truth is a masterpiece and probably their most polished piece of work, but for me it lacks the rawness and hunger of Hard to Earn. Both legendary albums.🔥
I used to play Gang Starr all the time back in the day (still do tbh) and that line stood out the most to my Dad who was not really into hip hop. Even though it's a serious topic we used to play around paraphrasing that line like "the point they are cognizant of is where the firearm is concealed." Good memories and RIP Guru.
@@bluntskull8515 JFK TO LAX updates that formula. "The streets are war, that's what brothers carry weapons for And I take the weight as I did before." -GURU
"Bringing nothing but death!!!" Rest In Power my man with the golden voice. It amazes me that to a real hip-hop head you could just see these words and immediately that track just starts playing in your head automatically. That's our power. Let's get it in!!!
Yo Preemo thanks for making a grown ass man smile with this series. That siren... Man... I always thought it was like a person screaming. Perfect sample for this track. And we can't forget the remarkable follow up to this track. WHO GOT GUNZ!!! Feat Fat Joe & M.O.P. Shit is a banger... 🔫💥🔥
Another classic gangstarr song. This is from the golden era. Guru was brilliant with his wordplay about guns. The whole science of it. Never forget hearing this for the first time at 16. It blew my mind. Rip Guru.
Tonz O’ Gunz one of the All time Classics from a Classic album. Rise In Power Guru Gang Starr 4 Eva Preemo made this beat thump straight Fyah one of the greatest Premier beats
Flawless record...flawless album. I will NEVER forget when I first heard this album and ALONGWAYTOGO came on! I knew the rest of the album was going to be special. 💥💥💥👏🏾💯💯👑👑
Damn! Don't surprise me at all that "Hard To Earn" is Preemo's favorite album created! The vibe of the album is different than the entire Gang Starr discography! Gu & Preemo was in the zone! Always loved the drum programming on "Tonz 'O' Gunz" On some "Stutter Bap" style. So dope! RIP GURU. Gang Starr Forever!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 HEAVY ROTATION WITH ONE!!! Love this series. So much work this series can go on forever. Please do “Follow Instructionz” or “Speak ya clout” next or sometime soon. Preemo is time for them sponsorships for this series. YOU DESERVE IT.
Hard To Earn is also my favorite Gangstarr album and is one of my favorite hip hop albums period! Tonz O Gunz, Code Of The Streetz l, Mass Appeal, Words From The Nutcracker, Mostly The Voice, Dwyck, Fake MCs, Now You're Mine, every track is dope in it's own right.
In my opinion the most timeless Gangstarr record because the subject matter sounds like it could’ve been recorded yesterday. Also, Premo cutting the “Best” on the rhythm scratch and then letting the entire phrase go in the middle of the song is genius. Thank you for this episode
I agree with Premo on this that is my fave album of theirs, love it to this day. I played it more than any album ever in all reality, the whole album was fire.
When I was a little kid in the early 2000s and my dad gave me the hard to earn CD. I used to play Ace Combat 4 and this with the soundtrack to that game for me
Top 5 greatest Preemo beat ever for me. The rhythm of that hi-hat and drum pattern just simply hypnotizes you..
It's that high pitch banshee background streaky sound for me
@@Chimp.Foo. I feel you, but it's the sound and rhythm of that hi-hat and drum pattern does it for me.
Preemos beats always hits hard
@@kevinbrown6072 Yes sir!!!
@@canibusnjthat’s the drum break
Gang Starr forever
Absolute classic; the whole Hard to Earn album is so damn good. Gang Starr's catalog is packed with so many phenomenal records
One of the best discographies in Hip-Hop period!!
This album been with me since i was 10. This song with the malcolm intro is a revolutionary's soundtrack. This is absolutely timeless 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Agree. One of Preem's hardest beats ever. What did it for me was that thumpin bassline he layed over the drums. Preem knows what real funk is. When he mixes those funky basslines w his beats, he can't lose. Guru flowed nice over it too
"Tonz O Gunz" still applies to this day. And that's a fact.
One of my favourite hip-hop beats of all time, absolute classic record, both lyrically and musically.
This is one of my, and I mean one of my most, favorite Gang Starr Songs. Guru was all over the beat. Dope song and Dope Flow. When Kanye said he would sleep with this album on... I did the same thing.
This is the song that introduced me to Gang Starr. This one and Above The Clouds are my favorites.
This song right here why Lyrics and Subject Matter is so important in Hip Hop,not about Radio Spin or Club Spin it is what the emcee is saying
Hard To Earn has always been my fav Gangstarr album. Awesome to hear it’s Primo’s fav too.
Drums on this track are crazy smackin, funky ass bassline, and that siren is so ill. Of course you got the signature touch of those Premier cuts too. And GURU spit the truth on it with his usual style and grace. May he Rest In Peace.🔥🎙🔥
Mad props to the legendary Gangstarr.🔥
And as always, respect the Floppy Y’all! Peace.💾🔥💾🔥💾🔥💾🔥💾
My fave as well…that album could be a “greatest hits” lol RIPGURU
It's crazy but lyrically and melodically I got moment of truth
@@Karmaisabliss215 I hear you. Moment of Truth is a masterpiece and probably their most polished piece of work, but for me it lacks the rawness and hunger of Hard to Earn. Both legendary albums.🔥
@@eddiethetruhead yes and for me hard to earn was more timeless so that factor alone gives it a few points extra
@@eddiethetruhead hard to earn was special because I remember playing it on my boom box in cassette
the fullness of those 2" tape analog recordings are so superior to digital
"The thing they know best is where the gun is kept." - Peace to you Premo, Rest In Peace GURU.
I used to play Gang Starr all the time back in the day (still do tbh) and that line stood out the most to my Dad who was not really into hip hop. Even though it's a serious topic we used to play around paraphrasing that line like "the point they are cognizant of is where the firearm is concealed." Good memories and RIP Guru.
@@bluntskull8515 JFK TO LAX updates that formula. "The streets are war, that's what brothers carry weapons for
And I take the weight as I did before." -GURU
Classic beat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2024
This track and the planet. Mane those two back to back are fire.
Aight chill..
@@UNDERGROUNDskateco for real 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Damn right 👊🏿🙏🏿
“Boom bash dash I used to hang at four corners…and all the spots in Beantown where niggaz carry burners” - Guru
Classic Gangstarr. This joint never gets old man. LONGLIVEGURU
Think what hip hop was and what it is today.. thank you Guru
Guru was always ahead of his time wit the rhymes, that's why he's one of the greatest. Preemo is a creative genius on the beats and the cuts!
I’m still an album lover; never cared about singles. I’m going to bump “Hard to Earn” after this. Love this song. #RipGuru
That LP in the background is german. Manfred Krug. He was a big TV actor in Germany in the 80s and early 90s.
The beats are dangerous on this album cut. Incredible.
One of my all time favorite Gangstarr tracks. That beat is dopeness
"Bringing nothing but death!!!" Rest In Power my man with the golden voice. It amazes me that to a real hip-hop head you could just see these words and immediately that track just starts playing in your head automatically. That's our power. Let's get it in!!!
Yo Preemo thanks for making a grown ass man smile with this series. That siren... Man... I always thought it was like a person screaming. Perfect sample for this track. And we can't forget the remarkable follow up to this track. WHO GOT GUNZ!!! Feat Fat Joe & M.O.P. Shit is a banger... 🔫💥🔥
@@UndergroundRap4eva I could not agree more my friend 😎👍🏼
golden voice indeed. Guru is underrated
Keep doing your thing RIP Guru
One of my favorite tracks and albums! Gang Starr FOREVER!
My favorite GangStarr album. So many bangers on this one. Mass Appeal is my favorite song but this is a close second.
One of the greatest songs in the history of music.
This was my favorite Gangstarr track, hands down. Preemo killed it...
The soundtrack of my youth. Thanks for sharing brother and peace and blessings to the spirit of GURU and his family.
Timeless song and beat. Will never get old.
Deep meaning especially today. RIP Guru
Another classic gangstarr song. This is from the golden era. Guru was brilliant with his wordplay about guns. The whole science of it. Never forget hearing this for the first time at 16. It blew my mind. Rip Guru.
GURU WIT THE RYHMES AND PREEMO ON THE BEAT = TON OF CLASSICS
Tonz O’ Gunz one of the All time Classics from a Classic album. Rise In Power Guru Gang Starr 4 Eva Preemo made this beat thump straight Fyah one of the greatest Premier beats
Such a classic production, can’t wait to go see the breakdown
Finally!! I requested this one from the jump! ....such a dope beat....everything here just fits so well!! Def one of my top 5 Preemo beats. Salute !
Flawless record...flawless album. I will NEVER forget when I first heard this album and ALONGWAYTOGO came on! I knew the rest of the album was going to be special. 💥💥💥👏🏾💯💯👑👑
Damn! Don't surprise me at all that "Hard To Earn" is Preemo's favorite album created! The vibe of the album is different than the entire Gang Starr discography! Gu & Preemo was in the zone!
Always loved the drum programming on "Tonz 'O' Gunz" On some "Stutter Bap" style. So dope!
RIP GURU. Gang Starr Forever!
Gang Starr is my all time favorite duo EVER LONG LIVE GURU LONG LIVE DJ PREMIER
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 HEAVY ROTATION WITH ONE!!! Love this series. So much work this series can go on forever. Please do “Follow Instructionz” or “Speak ya clout” next or sometime soon. Preemo is time for them sponsorships for this series. YOU DESERVE IT.
Preemo is the hip hop bible
One of my fav, so deep and raw. No equivalent today...
NOW THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
Yooooo! So glad I happened upon this. Thanks for everything Preem! God bless! RIP Guru, we love you. ❤️
I remember in high school, a friend lent me this tape to listen to. He never got it back. My fault, this tape was just that dope.
Man I loved that album front to back and back to front no bs 🎤👊🏾🖤
“Niggaz came thru with 40z and blunts kid/I’ll buy you 4 more fuckin killah tapes” 🤣🤣 Every Crew can relate to that fam 👊🏾
One of my fav Gangstarr songs. And The Planet
This album just might be where premier created the sound we expect from him today .
Hard to Earn is also my favorite from their catalog. Such an excellent time in hip hop when this came out
Gang starr has helped me through so much shit in my life. Premier has influenced me so much in beat making. RIP Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal.
Tonz of guns, you got we got they got! Classic ish
Guru top 5 of all time period!!!!!!!!
Hard To Earn is also my favorite Gangstarr album and is one of my favorite hip hop albums period! Tonz O Gunz, Code Of The Streetz l, Mass Appeal, Words From The Nutcracker, Mostly The Voice, Dwyck, Fake MCs, Now You're Mine, every track is dope in it's own right.
gang star is what got me from the Greatful Dead to Hip Hop.
Dj premier is the greatest thing to touch hip hop
Salute for the Manfred Krug "Ein Hauch von Frühling"-Vinyl in the back
One of my Favorite jointz off the Album ♨️♨️♨️♨️🦾
My favorite too! Though Step In The Arena, hoooo boy! I listened to BOTH yesterday at work. Then I did Nice And Smooth.
Best part of these videos is watching DJ Premiere rewind with his arms.
Simply unmatched. RIP Big L.. S hold tight. Yo Preemo !!!
This beat has to be close to my favourite beat ever tbh…
It’s definitely up there!
Man I fucking lov these back stories, Guru's subject matter helped influence my writing too, #RIP, wish he was still around
the thing you know best is where the gun is kept🎶
In my opinion the most timeless Gangstarr record because the subject matter sounds like it could’ve been recorded yesterday. Also, Premo cutting the “Best” on the rhythm scratch and then letting the entire phrase go in the middle of the song is genius. Thank you for this episode
Conspiracy was that track for me
Those drums and that siren alarm 🙌🏾
I agree with Premo on this that is my fave album of theirs, love it to this day. I played it more than any album ever in all reality, the whole album was fire.
R.I.P Guru!!!! 🙌🏼
"Streetwise poetry and Turntable wizardry- GURU
That Manfred Krug Record in the back 🔥🔥🔥
ThanXXX 4 letting the song play ▶️ out 👍🏾👍🏾
LEGENDARY TRACK!!!!
Like PREEMO, My favorite GANGSTARR album
Thanks bro! This album is in my lifetime top 5 hip-hop joints.
REST IN POWER, GURU!
RIP GURU 🙏
Classic rap, this real hip hop
One of my all time favorite Gang Starr trax!
Yo this is one of my favorite tracks... good look Preemo!
It’s one of the only gang Starr songs not to click with me
Manfred Krug Album in the back… True gem
One of the best songs ever, message beat ouweee✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼🔥
Heavy Gratitude.
Ps I checked out this Gang Starr album from The Berkeley Public Library. Massive Classic.
Hard To Earn is in my top 10 albums ever
I gave you power and tonz O gunz are two back to back bangers.Definitely needed for these days and times. The 80s and 90s were different.
Man I Always Loved That Screaming Sound In The Background
Still don’t understand how he keeps it so simple but so funky, preemo is truly a HipHop 💎
They just don’t make tracks like this anymore. Such a classic album. 🔥
Gang Starr one of the Best group eva !!!! R.I.P. Guru
And that “siren” was a brilliant find.
Considering how deep it’s buried in the LP of the actual sample source.
Yes! Salute to the floppy disk!
I miss Guru so much. Love you Preemo.
Great song, from the beat to the flow and the lyrics.
That Manfred Krug album in the background is a classic! Crate-diggers know what I'm talkin bout...
Not only crate diggers, just a lot of people from germany 😁
I was just playing this 3 hours ago!!!
I remember getting this album and wearing this track out..
You got, we got, they got.
You don’t have a fav gang Starr song you have a fav album. Every track on there albums are fire.
When I was a little kid in the early 2000s and my dad gave me the hard to earn CD. I used to play Ace Combat 4 and this with the soundtrack to that game for me
Such a dope beat ! Something you would find the bomb squad doing … Preemo is man … great track Guru kills it
One of my fav Gangstarr tunes ever!
"Hard to Earn " was the first Hip Hop album I ever bought on CD . An instant classic, Tonz of Gunz has Tons of Funk.
Mad props to Primo, droppin the real knowledge keepin us educated. Amazing insights as always. RIP Guru.
Classic song