Biography
As Guru said himself on one of Gang Starr’s innumerable classic songs, “It’s mostly the voice.” The rapper, born Keith Elam in 1961, was blessed with one of the most inimitable intonations to ever grace a microphone. On 1994’s “Mass Appeal,” he described it as a monotone, but even that was a point of pride: It meant he didn’t lean on gimmicks. Though he and his partner in Gang Starr, DJ Premier, were not born in the city—Guru grew up in Boston, P...Read more