Guru, real name Keith Elam, who founded the rap duo Gang Starr, died yesterday (April 19) after a yearlong battle with cancer at age 43.
The rapper slipped into a coma on February 28 after suffering a heart attack. Shortly after his death, Guru’s extremely dubious business partner Solar produced a letter that he said Guru dictated to him from his death bed.
The letter gave Solar full control of his money, assets and “all elements of his character after death.” The letter also specified that the rap duo’s DJ Premier not be allowed to use the name Gang Starr for future profit or fame.
Premier spoke on the breakup in a 2006 interview with XXL magazine, saying “If I confirm it, then it’s official. If I don’t confirm it, then we still together.”
Guru is survived by a son, KC.
He had a heart attack, went into a coma and died from Cancer. Something aint right. RIP.
So sad. My prayers go out to his family.
YO have yall read the letter OMG that letter is some true bitchazzness, who is this Solar cat i have NEVER heard of him the greatest rap compilation of all time was “dwyck” shout out to nice and smooth THAT WAS REAL RAP Guru and DJ Premire on the outs SINCE WHEN ever since this SOLAR bitch came in the picture in the letter he said he was his “partner” was he his “partner” partner rumor on the streetz were floating back in the day but hey i dont know yall tell me.. RIP GURU i will be bumping G’Starr all day today
GOD is soon coming for this world. shout out to my MOMMA MA I CAN”T GET OUT OF GERMANY FOR THIS DAMN VOLCANO save me some pig feet
RIP Guru!!!
Sad.
for the family!
Why didn’t someone call in an attorney or doctor or someone who could co-sign on this alleged letter. Sounds like Solar is looking to profit from Guru’s death. Sounds really shady to me. He needs more people.
RIP Guru.
why didnt he leave all his assets & whatever else to his son???? why solar??? that ish sound highly suspect!!! RIP guru!!
that whole letter suspect, you on death bed take time to still dis premier? somebody gonna put hands on solar
Wow, this is sad. My condolences goes to his fam.
Something in the milk ain’t clean. This Solar suspect seems highly suspect. And why release this letter publicly? So sad.
Um… I don’t think that “Death Bed Manifesto” is legit Solar.
Sounds like some “emotional/relationshp” type chit was goin between Guru, Solar and Premiere to me.
I was not a fan but R.I.P. to Guru.
Can’t say I really know these people but R.I.P.
and know one is going to buy that death bed letter crap, once this dude’s family takes whats his name to court for assets and thangs it’ll be a wrap for all that “a letter that he said Guru dictated to him” crap, please believe. A judge would laugh him out of the building.
*no*
its one of those days I see.
OMG if you actually read the letter you would know that something is not right. I dont trust this Solar cat and in the letter he is stating partner like they were involved in some type of way, maybe but idont want to start any rumors but his sickness was sudden and other illnesses come to mind. anyway RIP Guru Gangstarr is and always will be a legendary group. check allstarhiphop.com for the letter.
Hey Kryssayyy
OK, here’s my take on this: Either Solar is a liar and a thief, or there is something much more to his relationship with Guru than he’s admitting!
Why leave everything you have to a business partner (one that keeps your family away while you’re sick in the hospital) what was the reason for that? Were you afraid that he was going to say something about who he REALLY wanted to run his $hit?
Why not his child? Why not his girl? Why not his sister, brother, uncle – a cousin, or charity? Why would he leave EVERYTHING to a MAN… unless THERE IS MORE TO THAT RELATIONSHIP!!?!
I looooooves, my homebwahs… gawd knows ah do… but ain’t no way in HELL one of them gettin MY baby’s ends upon my death!
Either he lyin, they were f*ckin, or Guru was secretly in love with him…
Uh uh!
Anna Says:
He had a heart attack, went into a coma and died from Cancer. Something aint right. RIP.
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R.I.P Guru
Yeah, the whole letter doesn’t sound right. Who is this Solar guy???
RIP Guru!
Hello All. 98 yr old Dorothy Height died today. She was my hero and icon. In 1963, she was the only female civil rights activist on the podium when Dr. King gave his “I have a dream” speech in DC. For over 40 yrs, she was president of the Natl Council of Negro Women. In the 1930s, she was accepted at Barnard College. Upon arriving at their doors, she was rejected because they had met their quota: 2 Negro students per yr. In 1980, the president of Barnard issued her an apology along with an honorary degree. She received over 36 honorary degrees in her lifetime, along with 2 presidential awards from Clinton and George W. She never got the media coverage of Al or Jesse, like in Sharpton and Jackson, because she did her best work behind the scenes. She died of natural causes. Dorothy Height, a true American icon, may she rest in peace.
RIP! He ain’t said none of that shyt!
It seems that solar really wrote that letter.no disrespect to the dead but this sounds like some secret lovers type of situation.
RIP Dr.Dorothy Height
I know Guru didn’t do that shyt! Cancer is a very painful disease, as you get closer to death it only gets worst. You don’t feel like doing nothing more then sleeping, because you are in to much pain and to weak to do anything else.
RIP to Guru and Dr. Dorothy Height. They were both innovators in their fields.
The letter is totally suspect. Solar is so wrong for going in on Premiere. Where was he when they were doing all that grinding back in the day?
RIP Civil Rights icon Dr. Dorothy Height and Rapper icon Guru.
Sidebar: I am getting ready to put Ricky Smiley on blast. I tried to be nice. Now it is on. So you twiggas let him know.
@AM
What did Ricky do?
Shut up attorneymom, not the time, nor the post.
RIP Guru.
Ok, I just watched some vids on youtube of Guru and this Solar dude. Um Imma say that they were probably lovers. Solar looks like he a bottom, kinda soft spoken, and the one that was handling all the paperwork type shyt! You know like the ride or die chik! Yall need to peep them. Guru keep on refering to him as his supa produca in damn near every sentence! They had a couple like vibe. I got you boo type shyt!
LOL dang y’all wait for AM to post just to shut her down!!
biglegs36 Says:
Ok, I just watched some vids on youtube of Guru and this Solar dude. Um Imma say that they were probably lovers. Solar looks like he a bottom, kinda soft spoken, and the one that was handling all the paperwork type shyt! You know like the ride or die chik! Yall need to peep them. Guru keep on refering to him as his supa produca in damn near every sentence! They had a couple like vibe. I got you boo type shyt!
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where did you see the videos?
biglegs36 Says:
I know Guru didn’t do that shyt! Cancer is a very painful disease, as you get closer to death it only gets worst. You don’t feel like doing nothing more then sleeping, because you are in to much pain and to weak to do anything else.
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You are usually given morophine to ease the pain. Either way pain or drugged noone has paitence to dictate a letter.
@mirs
sohh has one with them
oops it’s so** since I can’t type it
I just read the letter on Music Television, I find it hard to believe that someone dying carries beef to the grave, its usually when you’re faced with your own death that you let things go.
mirsmommy go to youtube and type in Guru, and they will come up, CHeck out this one Guru ‘s Jazzmatazz and Solar Live in Cali. He just looked like he was on some “i got you boo type shyt”!
Anna Says:
biglegs36 Says:
I know Guru didn’t do that shyt! Cancer is a very painful disease, as you get closer to death it only gets worst. You don’t feel like doing nothing more then sleeping, because you are in to much pain and to weak to do anything else.
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You are usually given morophine to ease the pain. Either way pain or drugged noone has paitence to dictate a letter.
Exactly, I just buried my cousin last monday. He was so drugged up he didn’t even know he was in the world. I went to visit him on tuesday, he was thin and weak. He couldn’t even hold his head up! He couldn’t even speak to me!
I won’t be to quick to say the letter is fake
I will vote YES to them being lovers though
RIP Dorthy and Guru
Hey fam *waving*
still bumping manifest in my car to this day. rip guru.
@BIG LEGS 36
Ok, I just watched some vids on youtube of Guru and this Solar dude. Um Imma say that they were probably lovers. Solar looks like he a bottom, kinda soft spoken, and the one that was handling all the paperwork type shyt! You know like the ride or die chik! Yall need to peep them. Guru keep on refering to him as his supa produca in damn near every sentence! They had a couple like vibe. I got you boo type shyt!
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WTF?
ROFLMAO! He sounded like a “ride or die chick?” LOL. I got tears in my eyes laughing at that. I’m bout to go on the Tube to check it out.
@Krazyazz, Yes, it is because he and his co-host thought it was appropriate to use the term “hoe” or “whore” in the same sentence or segment as the late Dr. Height. That is a problem.
Dr. Height paved the way so that Guru, me, you and subsequent generations can walk with our heads up.
Now shut up!!
biglegs36 Says:
mirsmommy go to youtube and type in Guru, and they will come up, CHeck out this one Guru ’s Jazzmatazz and Solar Live in Cali. He just looked like he was on some “i got you boo type shyt”!
Anna Says:
biglegs36 Says:
I know Guru didn’t do that shyt! Cancer is a very painful disease, as you get closer to death it only gets worst. You don’t feel like doing nothing more then sleeping, because you are in to much pain and to weak to do anything else.
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You are usually given morophine to ease the pain. Either way pain or drugged noone has paitence to dictate a letter.
Exactly, I just buried my cousin last monday. He was so drugged up he didn’t even know he was in the world. I went to visit him on tuesday, he was thin and weak. He couldn’t even hold his head up! He couldn’t even speak to me!
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Sorry to hear about your cousin. I am just glad that ppl can die pain free due to a disease.
RIP Guru and Dorothy Height. I am so glad that I was able to meet an icon twice!
Not familiar with who he is but RIP Guru.
GET SOME HELP PLEASE!!! EVERYTHING IS NOT ABOUT YOU!!! DAMN…
One of the hip hops greatest. The rap game will never be the same. Listening to Royalty right now.
RIP Guru and Dorothy Height
Yes cancer is absolutely horrible in what it does to the body. I watched my father die of cancer and nothing about it is the least bit comfortable watching it and I can only imagine what its like feeling it. The pain is so immense that even the smallest sounds aggravate you. So this man saying he dictated a letter? Not really plausible. Now him writing and reading it to Guru and Guru nodding his head maybe but still, how can that be held as a document that can be upheld in court? If that’s the case, I’m going to the hospital with my pen and pad. I will walk by terminal patient’s doors and poke my head in and just say “eh? yeah you! If they answer me back, then I’m going to the next room. If they dont, then I’ll say, “Yo you cool with giving me everything? Yes? okay bet that!” I’ll scribble it down and read the obituaries and wait for my payday.
Daisy Says:
I won’t be to quick to say the letter is fake I will vote YES to them being lovers though
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I don’t know who Guru is other than him being posted on this site before. No man gives another man this much power unless they are loves. This is my opinion, I think Guru had HIV and Solar wanted to spare his family.
lovers*
@ AM
Heal gurl *tightens leash*
Nobody gives a fu@k
Thanks Anna
LOL! at Honeygrahm!
* I meant heel no heal* sorry I’m on my bb
OMG @ AttorneyMom!
I usually don’t engage you becuase everybody else seems to do it enough but seriously….are you serious? You know what I’ve realized- you LIKE drama. You NEED drama. You HAVE to feel like people are starting with you so you can get to hooting & hollering and typing real hard on your keyboard like you’ve been offended in the worst way.
It could be considered “okay” when someone is actually “coming” for you, but you are going to try to go head-to-head with a GROWN-A** MAN about his choice of vernacular in a sentence having to do with a woman who you DID NOT KNOW and when he was not even referencing her in that context?
Really? Woman, STOP! Let it go! As a grown-woman and a proud AKA, you should have sooooooo much more to do with yourself, your life, hell, your job-search!
Get a damn grip! And how foolish and arrogant of you to even THINK that Rickey Smiley would give a damn how you feel about what he said about 2 totally different subjects? He’s on the radio, getting paid well, doing his gigs and such and you’re where?
ANSWER: Home…..unemployed…..on YouTube….and SR….and Charles’ low-life blog……arguing…..with people who hate you…..for FREE.
Put your life in perspective, woman! DAMN!
^^
*mumbling to myself*
Talking bout how you going to “put somebody on blast…”
WTF are you gonna say? “Hey Rickey, lil ole me, who can’t even concentrate on my own affairs long enough to convince any reputable law firm to hire me without numerous stabs being taken at my reputation AND my sanity, would like to start some sh*t with you because on YOUR damn radio show, (which my minion a** is not a paid participant of), mentioned my sorority’s past president and the word “ho” in the same segment….”
I hope Rickey drags your simple, insipid a** all day long on tomorrow’s show just for having the unmitigated gall to think that you were big, bad & bold enough to step to him like he should give a damn about your feelings about HIS vocabulary! I need something to entertain me on that long-a** drive to somewhere you aint been in over a year it seems: WORK!!
UGGHHHHH!
okay! I’m done. Annoyed, but done.
RIP to GURU & Dorothy Height.
I’m going back to my happy place now. It’s only the 2nd day past Sunday and some of these people are going to make me lose my religion….
Ebony Says:
@ AM
Heal gurl *tightens leash*
Nobody gives a fu@k
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And GUCCI!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!
R.I.P. GURU AND Dorothy Height
missy who is that in your icon???
@ksmommy05- That’s stephen curry a basketball player who plays for the golden state warriors.
*mental note* NEVER GET ON HER/HIS BAD SIDE
Hello All (*waving hand*)
I’m new to SR and just wanted to say hi. You guys sure do keep me entertained at the workhouse. lol
@Crzasallgetout
I’m a “she.” LOL! And I’m sorry about that. I usually don’t come for people who don’t send for me but that pissed me off! We’re talking about 2 recently deceased legends in here and she got the nerve to….*sigh*
Don’t even get me started!
R.I.P Dorothy Height and Guru..
I read that letter as well and that is a bunch of bull, I just lost my aunt to cancer and she was in no position to write a letter of that magnitude. Since Thanksgiving and Christmas she was out of it so for this fool to say that Guru wrote or even dictated that letter is a bunch of bull. I do think their relationship was more than homeboy’s because he said partner in the letter, not business partner but partner. SMH at all that mess..
Dorothy Height was not a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. but DST.
Sounds like some “emotional/relationshp” type chit was goin between Guru, Solar and Premiere to me.
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let me start off by saying RIP to this lyrical great. hip hop was changed by guru and gangstarr….
glad i am not the only one who got the above vibe…i mean wtf? WHERE was this man’s momma…sister…auntie…baby momma….SOMEBODY?
he dictates from his DEATH BED… his last and will and testament to his “homeboy”??? HUH? come on now (twisted up mouf emoticon…)
Too sad, and I still say something ain’t right about Solar. If he could dictate a letter before he died he could speak to a lawyer and make it official. Praying for his family, especially his parents and his son
Really? Woman, STOP! Let it go! As a grown-woman and a proud AKA, you should have sooooooo much more to do with yourself, your life, hell, your job-search!
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not job search.
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that was me hitting the keyboard from laughing with my head down on it…sorry.
I’m sorry but GURU is 48yrs. he finished Morehouse in 84 or 85′. Why does Solar feel a need to lie about Gurus age and he wrote that damn letter too all in one breathe trying to promote that non-proof-for-profit organization he was involved with before meeting Guru. Solar really decided to ride Guru’s fame when they met while Guru was an extreme alky and if I recall just a few years ago when Guru album surfaced with Solar, his health was questionable then and I thought he was malnourished from alcohol abuse. Maybe he did die of hepatic type cancer. I thought Guru had another son with some white girl that was a former road and tour manager. Peace and blessings to his mom and dad.
*in my best smokey from “Friday” impression*
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYum!
@ AM
“you just got knocked the FUkk out!”
Speaks!! BROWN!!! Gyps!!………Vi!!….Mirs….Kayla’s…..
please hold Soul back from further
@ missy thx. definitely worthy of screen lickage there. he’s schmexy.
@ Soul
Too much! She will never have a comeback for all that. It was all things that needed to be said. God Bless You!
:rofL:
So sad! Those were the days, Guru was good at mixing Jazz with Hip-Hop. Their music was deep (sometimes too deep for a kid like me) I still rap “These are the words that I manifest, I manifest”.
I so love Guru- his rap voice was so dope- gangstarr is def one of the greatest rap groups who ever graced the rap game. RIP
@Krysi Let them fight!
*hand in the air singing* “whoop that trick”.
@Ksmommy- yea he is a cutie pie…
Are we going to have to do another funral?
@Krazyazz, Yes, it is because he and his co-host thought it was appropriate to use the term “hoe” or “whore” in the same sentence or segment as the late Dr. Height. That is a problem.
Dr. Height paved the way so that Guru, me, you and subsequent generations can walk with our heads up.
Now shut up!!
by attorneymom
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*deep sigh*
auntie why wont u ban this bipolar elephant in the sand?this whale is obviously lacking attention in the real world and is searching for validation on the net…attorneymom sitcho thea built ass down sumwhere!ur phucking annoying!noone cares!i swear if i was n atlanta id push ur big baldheaded ass in front of a metro bus!
*cluthches pearls* my word what the hell happened in here body parts everywhere
VIBABY Says:
@Krysi Let them fight!
*hand in the air singing* “whoop that trick”.
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Why I love that song?
AM- Why come on here and other sites to be more destructive but professing to be a light amongst darkness?
RIP to Guru and peace to his family!
I’m glad to see his family releasing info & correcting his age:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/arts/music/21guru.html
I am really curious and want to know, what did Ricky Smiley say that was so bad, that would cause attorneymom to want to put him on blast?