Gang Starr - Hard To Earn

1994 – UK 1st pressing on 2 x Vinyl and the 4th album from Guru and DJ Premier featuring favourites such as Code Of The Streets, Mass Appeal, Suckas Need Bodyguards and The Planet where Guru shares the story of his journey to Gang Starr

As always DJ Premier and Guru deliver solid gold with their knowledge and ability to find, flip and chop samples and breaks. using everything at their disposal, from obscure jazz to iconic Hip-Hop 

a few mentions can go to Little Green Apples by Monk Higgins and Synthetic Substitution by Melvin Bliss on Code of the Streets

Escape-Ism by James Brown, It's All Because She's Gone by Steve Davis and Speak Low by The Kai Winding Trombones on The Planet, with clips and cuts from Holy War by Divine Force and intro from The Cuckoo by Taj Mahal

God Make Me Funky by The Headhunters and Put Your Love (In My Tender Care) by The Fatback Band on Suckas Need Bodyguards 

if you listen carefully you'll discover tonz of Premier's signature sample snips and cutz throughout the album, taken from the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Rob Base & E-Z Rock, Divine Force, MC Lyte and EPMD to name a few