Hip-hop

TSS: Can you break down the whole Gang Starr thing and how it pertains to Boston?

Shug: Basically, Guru is from Boston. And me and Guru started Gangst…,well, I started it really, years ago. He's a bit older, but I was in the game from that way. So, in the younger years I taught him how to rhyme. Not showed him or growed with him, I taught him how. So therefore we were able to form the group Gang Starr, which consisted of him, myself and my younger brother Suave D, who used to deejay for us. And you know I was hustling, doing my thing. So I got caught up in the street situations…had to pay my debt to society; and he moved on to New York and that's how he got together with Premiere--hence the second stage of the Gangstarr situation. Once I was free, you know, got myself back in order just to deal with being free and being in society, we hooked up a couple years later at a show. And I've been with the movement since then.