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     Artist  | Gang Starr
     Title   | Step In The Arena

     Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 50:28

     Label   | Chrysalis                            Store   | 1990
     Catalog | F2 21798                             Rip     | 2020

     Bitrate | 751 kbps                             Size    | 288.03 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1

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     01. Name Tag (Premier & The Guru)                               0:36
     02. Step In The Arena                                           3:37
     03. Form Of Intellect                                           3:40
     04. Execution Of A Chump (No More Mr. Nice Guy Pt. 2)           2:41
     05. Who's Gonna Take The Weight?                                3:56
     06. Beyond Comprehension                                        3:13
     07. Check The Technique                                         3:58
     08. Love Sick                                                   3:27
     09. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow                                   2:18
     10. Game Plan                                                   1:08
     11. Take A Rest                                                 4:21
     12. What You Want This Time?                                    2:41
     13. Street Ministry                                             1:25
     14. Just To Get A Rep                                           2:42
     15. Say Your Prayers                                            1:24
     16. As I Read My S-A                                            3:02
     17. Precisely The Right Rhymes                                  3:25
     18. The Meaning Of The Name                                     2:54

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     The album on which DJ Premier and Guru perfected the template that would
     launch them into underground stardom and a modicum of mainstream success.
     Guru's deadpan monotone delivery was shockingly different from other
     early-'90s MCs, many of who were either substituting charisma for substance
     or engaging in hardcore "realism" without really commenting on black
     inner-city life or offering ways to alter the situation for the better.

     But it is Guru who sounded like the real clarion call of and to the street
     on Step in the Arena ("Why bring ignorance/where we're inviting you to get
     advancement," he intones on "Form of Intellect"). Step in the Arena was the
     first real mature flowering of his street-wise sagacity. His voice would
     grow more assured by the next album, but here Guru imparts urban wisdom of
     a strikingly visible variety.

     It's easy to allow yourself to get caught up in the fantasy of hardcore
     rap, but it is somewhat more involving and disorienting to hear truth that
     avoids exaggeration or glorification. Guru is not easy on any aspect of the
     inner city, from the "snakes" that exploit the community ("Execution of a
     Chump") to those that are a product of it ("Just to Get a Rep"), and the
     result is a surprising but hard-fought compassion ("Who's Gonna Take the
     Weight?" pleads for the acceptance of responsibility, for not taking the
     easy path). He seems to have somehow developed a hopefulness out of the
     bleak surroundings.

     DJ Premier was already near the top of his game at this early point. His
     production seems less jazz-fueled on Step in the Arena, opting more for
     spare guitar lines and tight beats, as well as his unmistakable vocal
     cut-up style of scratching for a slightly warped and out-of-phase
     soundscape.

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