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The Man Who Calls Himself A Superproducer…

…Written by gimantalon:

Many people asked me to actually do this and I come clean, I didn’t really enjoy writing this. However, the truth has to be written to the public. The people who wrote me asked for my help. About the whole Solar Guru situation… We should have known people. We should have known this would come this far. Superproducer Solar is a manipulator of the highest degree and loves to control people. I really hate making a post on DJ Premier Blog about Solar, I even promised last year not to mention Guru ever again (because I saw no ending with that Solar dude).

A lot of people who worked with Guru and Solar came forward to me with their stories about 7Grand Records and Solar in this intense week. Mostly they write about how heartbreaking it is to hear that their former partner Guru had a heart attack and that Solar is with him making it hard for his family, they are very concerned. The reason they wrote the truth in countless letters is because they want Guru away from Solar with the help of the public (like Justin asked in his video). It was no fun for them writing about Guru’s evil friend, especially when Guru was one of the friendliest people they ever met, and were blessed to work with. To the few persons Guru had contact with, he was always very kind. He was a master at cheering someone up. If you saw Guru you wouldn’t think he was sad, he wouldn’t let you see it someone wrote me. He didn’t want to make someone sad because of him. That’s maybe the reason Solar had so much control on Guru. Guru’s first concern wasn’t himself, but the persons next to him. I hope you respect why they want to stay anonymous. They don’t want to harm the person, Guru, that were always good to them. Yet, what Solar puts Guru trough is unacceptable and makes people angry for a damn good reason. No one wants to see a good person suffer and taken advantage of. So I warn all of you, the next thing I’m about to write is something like tmz.com or allhiphop.com, you are not forced to read it. Keep Guru in the back of your mind, because he needs our support. Even so, here are some facts about the person who is now with Guru:

-Solar claims to be a member of the Nation of Gods and Earths. He consider himself as a God. 7Grand logo is inspired from the religions logo.

-Solar claims to have saved Guru from alcohol abuse.

-Solar and Guru likes to believe the media that they were friends before they worked together. Which isn’t completely true. Guru was introduced to Solar by Black Jesus who worked on projects with Guru. Solar just started producing and when he came into the picture he disrupted and poisoned his mind against Black Jesus and his crew.

-Solar always told Guru that his old friends hate him and that he is nobody without him. Guru is scared of that and don’t want to end up alone in his mid 40s. Solar isn’t that stupid, if Guru and DJ Premier make music again he can say bye bye.

-Every journalist that would like to take an interview with Guru is firstly asked not to question about Gang Starr or DJ Premier. Solar always has to sit next to Guru (even with a phone interview). If you watch some interviews of them you can see how Solar likes to interrupt Guru to say it better. I once heard an interview when he got mad (because of DJ Premier) and asked the interviewer ‘what the deal is’. Guru didn’t move a bit.

-Solar likes to write mails in Guru’s name to the 7Grand artists. You can tell the difference between Guru and Solar. Guru always wrote like a poet, Solar like a thug.

-Guru is allowed to sign autographs for a certain amount of time, after which Solar yells ‘that’s enough’, grabs his arm and drags him off.

-When a girl shows interest in Guru she firstly needs to be approved by Solar, which led Guru with no girls most of the times. When you ask him about it, Guru always replies: ‘Solar is helping me to be disciplined, I need that’.

–It has been reported that Solar harbours intense jealousy for the Jazzmatazz trumpet soloist Brownman. I received emails from promoters stating that they’ve seen Solar pack Brownman into a cab and send him back to the hotel early when audiences are freaking out over his trumpet playing. One promoter describes the reaction to Brownman as “so much cheering you couldn’t hear Guru talk, while Solar’s reception was luke-warm at best”. This infuriates Solar and he has used lies such as “we have an early flight” as excuses to shuttle the trumpet player away from the crowd. Eventually Solar made Guru stop introducing the band members entirely. The superproducer’s own introduction would go on for minutes, while the all-star band – including the well known DJ DooWop – were treated like nobody’s. Other sources have reported that Solar has had many conflicts with Brownman, stemming from Solar’s insecurities over Brownman’s ability to engage an audience as a soloist – while he himself has no business on stage next to Guru. Why is the producer of the show on stage in the first place?

-Solar feeds on the career of Guru , of which he has total control over. While playing in Norway a few years ago, he demanded weird stuff and complained that he had not received enough smoked salmon and champagne. Most of the people didn’t even know who he was.

-It’s not like anyone didn’t know about this, a lot of this has been said before. Here you have a picture of a fan who wanted to own Solar. Here you have other blogs besides mine who spoke about it, here‘s another one. This funny picture I posted on my blog spread like wild fire one year ago, now it’s off course not funny anymore. Actually I’ve known several journalists who wrote bad things when they did an interview with Guru and Solar.

-Solar was thinking about a new Gang Starr album, probably without DJ premier. Guru told us last year it’s possible there would be a new Gang Starr album. If there would be one, it will be released on 7Grand Records. Solar made him believe only he is Gang Starr. After that statement an official twitter opened @GangStarr_NY that was promoted through Guru’s offic
ial twitter, which is in control of Solar.

-Guru is not the only one that Solar is controlling and brainwashing. The keyboard player of the Jazzmatazz band, Dave Scott, was even worse terrorized. Dave literally runs to pack up Solar’s food when Solar commands him to everywhere he demands. Dave does all kind of things for Solar. Like giving his clothes and making up a room with the things solar wants. He even does Solar’s laundry on tour often. He is terrified to lose his job because he has nothing else. When I posted that Jazzmatazz band left 7grand in January (due to Solar), he wrote eight comments in three hours begging me to add that he hasn’t quit. That’s how terrified he is from Solar, who runs things via abuse and terror. Also I hope he will be set free from Solar and go his own path.

-Solar blocks every source of information to Guru because he knows his old friends still love him.

-Solar and his wife signed a health care proxy as brother and sister of Guru. Guru’s room is protected with a guest list and a black list. Solar told the hospital that there were pictures taken from Guru without permission, which was not true.

-Solar can’t be mistaken with MC Solaar, the legendary MC from France who Guru worked with in 1993. When Guru first toured with Solar (I think 2005), I made this mistake. Then I saw some other lame dude, never knew who he was at the moment, but he wasn’t MC Solaar.

There is more that should better kept private, but I think you get the picture. I think Guru is still at an instable condition, so I would like everybody to still pray until he’s better. When he is, he will have a difficult job to do. Considering him not wanting to harm anyone. Actions, however, need to be taken, but first we need to see if Guru is at a stable condition. Pray for him, anyone who met him in person knows he deserves it.

It’s possible the future tells us he doesn’t want to reunite with DJ Premier at any price, if so then I’m afraid we shall need to accept this. We need to accept any decision by Guru. And lastly, this has nothing to do with DJ Premier you gossip magazines. And once again, I would like to thank the hip hop community to stand together to support Guru. Gang Starr 4 Ever!!

(Note: Solar’s official twitter is now redesigned by Yo! Promotions, check it out now!! Y’all should be ashamed, fo real.)

My 2 cents…

Behind The Scene on Project Boy

Guru’s Nephew Justin Updates Us With New A Video



Full recovery? Get the fuck outta here! His wife? It even got me mad in front of my desk… Pray. Safe Guru, safe Hip Hop!

Solar Calls The Cipha Sounds on Hot 97


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Solar Calls The Cipha Sounds on Hot 97

I have no words for this, he can’t say he isn’t in a coma, but he can say he isn’t in a med induced coma? No comment, but Bumpy Knuckles has some:
I’ll keep you updated, a lot of people seems to be interested. Hold your head up Guru, Gang Starr 4 Ever! Lol @ the Twitter thing.

Live From HeadQCourterz Show (03/05/2010)

After many request over this one year from the fans (specially from Europe) asking where they can listen to DJ Premier’s show Live From HeadQCourterz broadcasted at Sirius Satellite Radio. It was always the same answer, sign up at Sirius and listen from 4am to 6am (for most of the Europeans). But who the hell does that? And we all know the fanbase in Europe is huge. And now that I got some more free time after busy January I’m going to try this new thing. Lets go… Enjoy! DJ Premier Blog!

UPDATE: Those who want to listen in their car, download here.

Solar Puts Guru’s Nephew on Black List at Hospital

In a new public letter from Year Round Records label manager Biggest Gord stated that Guru‘s nephew can’t visit his uncle due to a black list. Gang Starr Foundation members who’s supporting Guru’s family through this drama picked up his nephew Justin at the airport in New York to take him to the hospital to visit his uncle Guru. Biggest Gord writes as follow:

We approached the information desk in the main lobby of the hospital. We were asked “how can i help you gentlemen” by the intake woman at the front desk. Justin replied: ”i’m here to visit my uncle keith elam”. The rather nice but professional older woman who asked the first question raised her eyebrow and responded: ”lemme check the list”. Her first response after checking the first list was ”well your name is not on this list let me check the other list”. She then continued: ”oh ok, your name is on this list, i’m sorry i cannot allow you to go see the patient”. Yeah let that marinate. It seems like there were two lists, one list (the first list she looked at) had the names of people allowed to visit (the patient). The other list (the second list she checked) had the names of people who were not allowed to visit (the patient)“.

Justin Nicholas Elam-Ruff apparently was on the second list that Solar had given to the hospital. Biggest Gord included with the letter that we need to keep praying for Guru and that Gang Starr will never be over. He assured us that he’ll keep us updated with information from his side and I would like to thank him for that. Rumor says that Superproducer Solar will be on a New York based radio show on monday morning. The Militia should enter that building in my point of view.

First Official Comment on Guru by DJ Premier

I wonder if I should write “Exclusive” or “Breaking News” like the sensation magazines love to do that. Well, here is the first official comment of Guru‘s old partner and legendary hip hop producer DJ Premier (that y’all been waiting on) together with Rhymefest and Panchi. Recorded from LiveFromHQ last night. And he started his show with the track “Moment of Truth”, we all know why, Gang Starr 4 ever!! The good will overrule the evil eventually:

First Official DJ Premier Comment on Guru

Here is a new letter from Superproducer Solar trying to clear his name while more stories are about to surface about him in my mailbox. Bumpy Knuckles started an operation asking all Gang Starr Foundation fans to save Guru. Get well Guru.

Statik Selektah Comments on Guru Situation


Via NahRight.

UPDATE: Anonymous sources have stated 2 Jazzmatazz band members – DJ Doo Wop & Brownman – both resigned in Jan ’10 and no longer supporting Solar or 7Grand Records. Their last tour occurred in Nov ’09 and sources tell us that finances are still owed to these artists. Miss Tasha Denham, former 7Grand Record’s executive assistant, stated that Solar is ‘evil’ and that it ‘is time that the whole truth is being said’. Both DooWop & Brownman have toured the world as Jazzmatazz’s DJ and featured soloist respectively for more then 3 years.

Dirty CDQ Version of Goldyn Chyld (DJ Premier Remix)

I’m sitting now quit some time on this one. I don’t know if this is an exclusive or something for the collectors, but I never saw a dirty CDQ version of this jewel before on the internet (why? read on…). You could find the dirty version on the 12″ release in 2002 by Priority Records who also released a promo CDS of this track with only the clean version on it.

I tagged it as “DJ Premier Remix”, and it is a remix, but it isn’t tagged like that on the vinyl release. But the notes tells us that the original version will appear on his next album “Goldyn Chyld”, but that album never came out due to troubles with the law and label. So this dirty version could never see the daylight. I also have the original version somewhere on my hard disc, but that one is produced by someone else (released on some advanced version of the album maybe?). Arguably Ras Kass best track. Like I said, forgotten jewel. I almost forgot, it’s a jewel rejected by -who else- Jay-Z. You see him rhyme on this beat around The Blueprint era?

Enjoy you DJ’s:

Ras Kass – Goldyn Chyld (DJ Premier Remix) (Dirty) (CDQ)

What in Gods Name is Really Going On With Guru??

I published my concerns about this earlier on Twitter , even Talib Kweli felt the same, Busta Rhymes felt the same. This is really getting scary. I really hope Guru is getting healthy but it doesn’t looks that way to me. His nephew also put this in question. Superproducer Solar still loves to aim towards DJ Premier (and his people) when Guru is still recovering from a heart attack and coma?? “Guru has made clear he does not want anything to do with certain people from his past, and for them too be making false statements about his health is unacceptable“- Superproducer Solar. If you are in the hospital (with health problems) from early February and having a heart attack (still in the hospital) after one month… This scares me in particularly … Besides the fact that Superproducer Solar is protecting Guru from everyone. It’s clearly Solar has a different agenda.

And he still finds the time to let “Guru” aiming towards his old partner DJ Premier that supposedly give all the false information towards the hip hop community?? Don’t forget that DJ Premier rejected to give public comment about the incident on sunday and that he still didn’t gave a public comment by now… When Guru gets out that hospital he should really think about who is interested in his health and who’s interested in getting himself famous.

IT EVEN SCARES ME MORE when you think about how long this shit could go on, did Guru really meant it that Premo never was a friend of him and that only he is Gang Starr?? Hmm.

“Guru” can tweet almost the exact same message in seconds when Superproducer Solar tweeting?? Guru can’t even control his own Twitter account now?? And why did “Guru” released all his albums for free when he was in the hospital?? Why did “Guru” even tweeting promotion stuff at the time he was critical ill??

What in Gods Name is Really Going On With Guru??

Besides the Superproducer Solar getting out of his mess by using Guru’s twitter we couldn’t get no new updates on Guru’s health (what in my point of view is still the most important). Sorry.