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- Summary: This is the first album in five years for the duo of DJ Premier and Guru.
- Record Label: Virgin
- Genre(s): Rap
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Top Track
| Skills | |
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| Intro: Skills, skills, skills (DJ Premier Scratching) "My Microphone" "It's Skills"-KRS One "The funky beat" "It's skills"-KRS One (Chorus:... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 17
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Mixed: 6 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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All the Gang Starr trademarks are in place, from Premier's perfect upchoruses to Guru's reedy voice cutting or instructing, and sounding better than ever.
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UncutAll told, a class act still in their prime. [Sep 2003, p.97]
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While it's not as immediately user-friendly as the group's early jazz-rap infusions, this album still bubbles with head-nodding boombox pleasures.
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VibeWhile The Ownerz does not spark any new rap trends, it brings back the power of the basics. [Jun 2003, p.153]
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Hitting that formula and riding it has drained some of the passion out of this sound.
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BlenderDignified and confident but slightly starved for ideas. [Aug 2003, p.125]
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So while The Ownerz does in some ways succeed in its quest to succinctly define the foundation of basic beats and rhymes, its insistent pining for bygone days ultimately reveals itself as lackluster nostalgia.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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coolfearthefutureAug 2, 2003This is pure hiphop here gangstarr returns.
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BenjaminH.Sep 10, 2003
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MaartenV.Aug 13, 2008
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