Artist: Big Shug: mp3 download Genre(s): Rap: Hip-Hop Big Shug's discography: Who's Hard: Gang Starr Presents Big Shug Year: 2005 Tracks: 20 Although his status inside Boston's tap underground is legendary, hard-core subway system knocker Big Shug is widely known for his long fourth dimension affiliation with rap pas de deux Gang Starr and its producer-half, DJ Premier. Deemed top of the inning general of the Gang Starr Foundation collective, Big Shug's unforgiving menstruation and predisposition for minatory rhymes -- personified by his massive and distinguished shape -- were best captured in his classic verses on Gang Starr cuts "F.A.L.A" (from 1994's Hard to Earn) and "The Militia" (from 1998's Consequence of Truth). Born Cary Guy, the hardcore knocker exhausted a good deal of his early life sentence in Boston's Mattapan (known locally as "Murdapan") section. Because his female parent abandoned his class and his padre grappled with dipsomania, Guy had to resist for himself on the streets. The friendly relationship that he finally made with Gang Starr's MC, Guru, is actually where the origins of Gang Starr lie. Shug stirred Guru's pastime to verse in slightly of a mentoring capacity. However, too embedded in Boston's underbelly of violence and drugs, Shug wounding up incarcerated, and Guru unnatural to New York, taking the Gang Starr constitute to shape one of hip-hop's skinny innovative groups with DJ Premier. When Shug was get extinct, he was very elysian by Gang Starr's winner. Guru and Premier showed their respects by including him on each of their albums, beginning with Hard to Earn in 1994. Throughout the '90s, Shug recorded a few DJ Premier-produced 12"s for Payday and Chrysalis, simply his first gear wheel full-length record, Who's Hard (2005), didn't appear until well all over a decennium of being a seasoned warhorse. Actually, many of the album's tracks were some of those ten-year-old recordings. In 2007, he signaling onto indie pat ball of fire Babygrande to handout his follow-up effort, Streetchamp. Unlike the old album, Shug only took a few beat coevals from DJ Premier, handing to the highest degree of the production solve over to Canadian up-and-comer MoSS. |