Gang Starr - Jazz Thing

[@rodtknight]

Me and my dad use to listen to this. I'm 42 now and he passed in 2000. When I hear this, he is who I think of. Great Times music bonding

[@AbeyTKO]

That's powerful

[@theodorepullins3124]

💪🏼💪🏼

[@primepeternice1318]

That's good stuff brother. Thank you for sharing

[@MrCualpha06]

@Rodrigus Knight RIP to your dad..It sounds like the moments you shared with him were special and I hope they continue to be special for you

[@thatmanbolt7684]

May it bring you joy at a sad time 🎙️

[@walteranders9396]

When hip-hop really taught you history and knowledge. Rest in peace Guru🎼🎹🎷🎺🥁🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@waynejohanson1083]

The song does teach you about the history of jazz.

[@drewski363]

Hip hop legends paying respect to their origins. I love it.

[@BJSteigner]

Still bangin' in 2023.

[@speedingpullet7400]

This is possibly my most favorite tune in the world, ever. Still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I hear it, even 25 years later. Thank you for resurrecting it!

[@bensondeadfromtheneckup5057]

Speedingpullet right!!! Dope!

[@bensondeadfromtheneckup5057]

Speedingpullet agreed! It’s dope and slick.

[@jedwing]

Same here.

[@topbanana4013]

just a normal tune/song what ever ??? lol also i hate lyrics that create segregation in colour

[@EdwardRobinson15580]

Man I have listened to this song SO much I know the words....VERBATUM. What a tribute to JAZZ MUSIC!@!!!!!

[@jeshun7071]

Guru pays homage to Jazz, also telling it's history. Rap meets Jazz & this is just brilliant from Gang starr. R.I.P Guru, he pays respects to Scott Joplin, Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Satchmo, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman Betty Davies & Sonny Rollins, this was also available on the excellent Mo Better Blues movie soundtrack

[@bensondeadfromtheneckup5057]

J Eshun damn good.

[@jeshun7071]

@@bensondeadfromtheneckup5057 Just awesome, Guru was a Jazz man

[@dwightlove3704]

@@bensondeadfromtheneckup5057 I said this before but I enjoy what you are saying as well.

[@sirjer73]

I absolutely luv this and a dope sound track all the way thru. But Miles should've been mentioned an glaring ommision

[@1archengdes111]

Yes J Eshun, and Dont forget he also pay respects to Miss Billie Holioday, the Lady of Blues Jazz

[@kryssifree]

Such a rich history lesson back when I was younger. RIP to Keith Elam.

[@Hs3u39]

I latched onto this amazing album in 1990 after having seen Spike Lee’s film. I wore this tape out twice. Still one of my all time favorite “Hip hop groups..” RIP Guru.

[@Gary-59]

Greatest fusion of rap and jazz with perfect sampling of Bird.

[@Capcoor]

G The main sampling came from “Dujii” by Kool and the Gang, IIRC.

[@andreysleepdeep]

Thanks the knowledge, classic bass lick. Great to find out about the original.

[@MikeyRumi180]

he didn't sample Bird...it was a collaboration dude. Bird actually played for this album with gangstarr.

[@zolixiv]

@@MikeyRumi180 GURU'S Jazzmatazz feat. DONALD BYRD - Loungin' :)

[@usedblazers]

Gang Starr introduced me to jazz in a major way. Salute.

[@philhongkins5520]

He would love that . I remember all the shit he took when he said Jazzmataz was coming .

[@usedblazers]

@@philhongkins5520 Guru was criticized for saying he was making a jazz record? That’s a shame. By who??

[@philhongkins5520]

@@usedblazers other rappers said he was dissin the Now by going back to the past . Said rappers where rappin about Hoes , rims , crystal , mo Hoes . Whilst Guru was a " know thyself " path . His reaching out to jazz legends was an absolute guarantee that the Jazzmataz series would succeed . He was so akin to the Native tongues ideology . Uplift your people with your words . 🤔

[@philhongkins5520]

@@usedblazers plus those times every rapper was into the diss scene , now the Hip Hop rappers well they were about something else . 🙏

[@SAMack-xd2fn]

Same for me😊

[@reggiemccoy3265]

Scott Joplin's, Bessie Smith's, St. Louis, King Oliver's, Satchmo, Diz' and Byrd, Theolonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter, Sonny Rollins, The 90's Basically Speaking About Black History Folks 💯

[@raymondjones5909]

Jazz and Hip Hop was so 90s 🔥🔥🔥

[@kaylabattle9532]

This is what real rap music is supposed to be. I’m 18 and I still prefer old school music over today’s music.

[@dwightlove3704]

This was Guru's best effort it was Music with a historical message!!!!!!

[@lakeisharobinson2132]

July 2020! 😎😎

[@dwightlove3704]

@@lakeisharobinson2132 Yes this beats anything out right now ppl today all they hear is negativity.

[@mistertilmonjr]

I been looking for this song for WEEKS now! I been listening to every Gan Starr & Guru albums. No wonder I couldn't find it. I'm glad I DID find it💯💯👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@dannybx78]

One of my favorite Gang Starr classics.

[@lw97nilslinuswhitewaterweb93]

In my opinion the best tribute song to jazz music. Who's with me?

[@lw97nilslinuswhitewaterweb93]

Jazz rather

[@kareemsupremet.v.5189]

Facts bro

[@andrewilliams4180]

💯

[@sirjer73]

The Last Poets got a song that name drop everybody. I love this song but you got 2 mention Miles Davis in some way shape or form.

[@waynejohanson1083]

I'm with you.

[@ajtowin]

Jazz ain't dead in MY head, nah, Never dat 🔈🔉🔊 🗽 🎷

[@vicvega24]

Guru = King Of Jazz Rap

[@user-jo9bt4gu5r]

Jazzmatazz vol.1 is Guru with highly respected Jazz musicians.🎯 JazzyT.

[@sinseers]

This joint made me an INSTANT Gang Starr fan when it first dropped. I still remember when the video world premiered on Video Soul with Donnie Simpson. I was MESMORIZED!!!

[@therealflamelit]

I liked this song too back then as a kid- but when Manifest dropped...whew!

[@abduljalil7623]

THE JUNK that these young Punks born AFTER 1999, Call Rap or Hip-Hop today, CAN'T TOUCH THIS!

[@topbanana4013]

really listen to the lyrics most do not even roll of the other sounds good tho . and to many made up words that do not exist

[@dwightlove3704]

@@topbanana4013 You can't understand what is being said by these ppl and what you can hear is usually negative.

[@jeffreynel643]

Word!!

[@michaelvicks6396]

Mo better makes it Mo better 90' classic Spike Lee film and Soundtrack on 🔥 I still love this after 31 years. Branford Marsalis and Terence Blanchard great Jazz collaboration ✊🏿

[@dwightlove3704]

Louis Farrakhan in a speech said the obvious BLACK PPL we are the foundation of American Music.

[@VBaskin2010]

R.I.P. to Guru and Bill Nunn.

[@samushunter0048]

All time greats!

[@corduerorose9747]

Don't forget Robin Harris

[@scottjohnson5303]

Vaughn Baskin That’s right

[@lakeisharobinson2132]

Respect 🙏🙏

[@VBaskin2010]

@@corduerorose9747 Him too as well!

[@msladylibra8373]

One of my favorite songs dm the Mo better Blues soundtrack Rest in Peace Guru ❤

[@martinward2262]

R.i.p guru legends never die.....

[@BassyBKNY]

That was 1 of spike Lee's best films.

[@Bangheadda]

Can´t thank Gang Starr enough for bringing Jazz closer to People who don´t know (including myself). Now i know a few famous artists and already have some Cds by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck and a fine Blue Note Sampler. They´re all very dope! Rakim once said he got this flow from listening to John Coltrane. Who ever thought this? Really interesting

[@sirjer73]

Rakim came up playing the Sax and had musicians in his family.

[@user-jo9bt4gu5r]

The song is from the movie Mo Better Blues,a Jazz movie from the early 90s,it's on the Soundtrack to the movie, there's another good song called Pop Top 40,where they makes fun of the lyrics, in the love songs on the radio stations. JazzyT.

[@josemenendez6789]

Shouts Out Spike Lee For Putting The Battery On Gang Starr’s Back For This Masterpiece 🙏🏽

[@scottjohnson5303]

I Love. Jazz music! Bill Nunn.

[@kareemsupremet.v.5189]

I'm going to New Orleans this spring and this song will be the soundtrack to my vacation.

[@chet732003]

Wonderful timing. Real slick project. Definitely ahead of masses. Great ode to the greats. Jazz is the closest relative to hip hop. Ultimate creativity

[@Etcher]

One of the best gangstarr tunes - this, I'm the man, you know my steez and above the clouds are my gangstarr jawns.

[@taylorlomba]

🎯 I agree with your taste ✊🏾✌🏾

[@maureencora1]

The Older I Get the More I Love Jazz Music, Feel the Music.

[@dongray6834]

BRADFORD MARSALIS and TERRENCE BLANCHARD . "Mo' Better Blues" is a collaborative album by Branford Marsalis Quartet and Terence Blanchard. It was released in 1990 through Columbia/CBS Records as a soundtrack to Spike Lee's 1990 film Mo' Better Blues. Recording sessions took place at RCA Studios and Sound On Sound in New York. Production was handled by Bill Lee, Delfeayo Marsalis, Raymond Jones and DJ Premier, with Spike Lee serving as executive producer. It features contributions from film stars Cynda Williams, Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes, and American hip hop duo Gang Starr.

[@koolpopjones6499]

Still miss you Guru. RIP

[@mr.sinister1279]

Gang starr by far is in my top 3 best rappers of all time.. damn he had a r rhythm like no other!! R.I.P my brother ur missed!! Love this track!! Stil blasting this track in 2025!!

[@radiophonica7188]

Immortal Band and its iconic songs to the end of this World..

[@reneehurt387]

Rest in peace birthday wishes to king guru. 7. 17. This is my favorite from mo better blues

[@bassthumper7331]

What a BLESSING from GANGSTAR....GURU REST BROTHA and THANK YOU.....!

[@jeffreynel643]

Respect the Oldskool!!! newskool wouldt not excist without pioneers like Guru and Premier.....Blessings from the Netherlands

[@MuzikJunky]

I got into jazz big-time because of Gang Starr! Peace.

[@willardjenkinsjr.7191]

This remains a classic of the genre!

[@GRANDKUSH]

I'll always remember this at the end of MO Betta Blues! Great Cut!

[@cesarbaca]

Premo found the best loop👊🏽

[@michaelriedel6567]

Jazz Thing, Buddys, im met Guru in 92 in Hamburg and i Love him, Premiere and his music since the first Time 😘 now Iam 48

[@abumc5104]

sometimes i think that i'm grown in the no.1 city of the german republic. HH brought us the best in the world of music. i would say, musically, hamburg is the place 2 B, or it used 2 B.

[@rogersmith6411]

DOUG M FASION...WOW LOVE U ALL THAT ON A HOTPLATES

[@ivanezell2112]

There is something really soothing about this!

[@alpeaceandlove]

Gotta respect this man really is timeless

[@BurninBushMaster]

Top 3 all time period.

[@Rating64]

This is just beautiful, a proper tribute, a big old tone!

[@philhongkins5520]

Supreme from the first note . GURU hit the spot 👌 🙏. 😎💜🖤

[@fleetwooddelegance8288]

Guru paid hommage to all the past legendary Jazz icon's and D.J Premier orchestrated one of The Best Hip-Hop Jazz Songs ever made and beyond everyone's expectation of creative genius of a "Pinnacle Point" of "Rap Music"! The Beat just keeps Thumping and Resonates to a Level of Highly regarded *(Bassline Contrast)* rising to *(Mega Finesse Flow)* to a *(Incredible Production)* of *(Creativity to Excellence)* 🗣⚡🎙⚡🎷🌟🎻🎶🎺🎆🏆✨🍾

[@harvichsambo3331]

I ♡ jazz!! Gang☆ foreva!! Peace 2 preemo!!

[@bierlichen1]

I love us soo much. And R.I.P. GURU.

[@hilltophouse]

I love those early GangStarr recordings like "Jazz Thing", "Positivity" and "Step In The Arena". Highlight to me is that Bass Sample from Kool & The Gang 🎷🎵🎶

[@bigwee4911]

Love you Guru, one of the most consistent Legends.

[@rogersmith6411]

20yrs later. JAMES BIG MAN F... AKA OMNI MALL. MIAMI

[@4akat]

great film. Mr Lee, thanks

[@scarsdale22]

Great piece of music… a part of my regular listening to this day….

[@chrisrj9871]

This may have been the first time (at least in the 90s) that jazz and hip-hop were fused.

[@TipToe67]

Underated track.

[@SAMack-xd2fn]

This beat tho...

[@tonytyson9080]

Guru is a legend rest in power brotha

[@willhaynes2190]

The GURU thanks my brother for enlightening us with your skills made me a better man with your great story telling while I lived among all kinds of negativity in the streets if Brooklyn during this Great Hip Hop era. PEACE and BLESSINGS travel in harmony brother.

[@vondelpark8141]

Timeless

[@anwarphilip7460]

I'm HERE IN 2021.... I LOVE JAZZ MUSIC 🎷🎺🎶🎵😍😌

[@thatmanbolt7684]

RIP Guru🎙️

[@Kitu74]

We did it again and again..aka ..The originals..facts

[@mcknih1020]

Mo Betta Blues has such a great jazzy sound track Terrance Blanchard out did hisself on this one

[@mattrockstonic]

Need to know without hate. Blanchard?

[@djcatchukdnb]

My jam Always Rip Guru 🙏❤️🎶👌

[@atriptoasia6979]

Why doesn’t this have more views ?

[@lordluvsme9378]

This is damn near a perfect song ❤ period

[@harshgsxr]

as smooth as custard

[@geoffreyfeinberg9792]

Always liked the intro.

[@nestorzaragoza191]

What a great song!! RIP Guru.

[@esotericguru7111]

Monotone is a 🔥 style.

[@user-em3rn4fq5c]

Love the spike Lee joint and song takes me back to 1990 Mo' Better makes it Mo' better

[@scottjohnson5303]

DENZEL in the hizzie !

[@RedVenomofficalpage2023]

the most underrated mc of all time guru ! rest in beats

[@Trumppower]

This was kinda smart and Original Hip Hop.. RIP Gang Starr

[@bensondeadfromtheneckup5057]

I love this, I get down through it all!

[@Bangheadda]

Very Smooth. Immortal Music!

[@TheSstretch68]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LEGENDARY GURU!!!!!!

[@LMedlock33]

A documentary in such short time

[@101enj]

AN EXCELLENT/DELICIOUS TRIBUTE AND HOMAGE TO JAZZ, REPRESENTED BY TWO OF HIP HOPS FINEST!

[@shamumaga]

This is hip hop that shit you undeniably feel in your soul

[@vandambautista]

The Last Poets, Watts Prophets, Gil Scott-Heron, fathers of Rap. Jazz Poetry, Free Jazz, Rap is a Jazz Poetry. Memphis Jug Brothers.

[@rogersmith6411]

RIP JAMES JOKE VIRGINIA

[@bigal0172]

Legends are never forgotten. Rest In Peace Keith! Never forget the date: April 19, 2010.

[@Waviecrokett]

This song explains the history of hip hop & music

[@waynejohanson1083]

No. This song explains the history of jazz music.

[@michaelanthony2449]

Guru is a fuckin genius an that man got crazy skills, by far one of the most underrated truthful dopest lyricsts to ever do it. Just picked up the Full Clip decade of gangstarr double disc album in great condition neither cd's skip for even a second! Glad i grew up listening to real hip hop unlike the garbage that comes out now. Gangstarr 1989 ☆ Infinity

[@christophercoats8275]

Now we need a version of a hip hop thing........RIP Guru and real Hip Hop!!!!!

[@mikeraeburn190]

Miss U my brother Keith Elam! Gangstarr 4eva!

[@RedVenomofficalpage2023]

love threw music my mum and dad loved this and my dads mate howard love real music

[@bobmaa5252]

1 of the best groove ever, killer Jazz samples. Much love for all those Jazzmen who lived their music the deepest. R.I.P

[@kingsindian8948]

Love this track . A classic .

[@each1teach1academy43]

90s Hip Hop > Any genre

[@craigdavis5407]

This Is True Hip Hop For Life Man!!!!

[@marcusmanuel9377]

Mo' Better Blues (1990) brought me here.