Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Put up or Shut Up - (featuring Krumb Snatcha)
3. Werdz From the Ghetto Child - (featuring Smiley)
4. Sabotage
5. Rite Where U Stand - (featuring Jadakiss)
6. Skills
7. Deadly Habitz
8. Nice Girl, Wrong Place - (featuring Boy Big)
9. Peace of Mine
10. Who Got Gunz - (featuring Fat Joe/M.O.P.)
11. Capture (Militia Pt.3)
12. Playtawin
13. Riot Akt
14. Hiney
15. Same Team, No Games
16. In This Life... - (featuring Snoop Dogg/Uncle Reo)
17. Ownerz, The
18. Zonin'
19. Eulogy
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Big Shug, Boy Big, Fat Joe, Freddie Foxxx, Jadakiss, Krumb Snatcha, Krumbsnatcha, M.O.P., Smiley, Snoop Dogg, Uncle Reo | | Producer: | DJ Premier | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Gang Starr: Guru, DJ Premier.
Additional personnel: Jadakiss, Snoop Dogg, Fat Joe, M.O.P., Boy Big, Uncle Reo, Krumbsnatcha, Freddie Foxxx, Big Shug.
Recorded at D&D Studios and Avatar Studios, New York, New York.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Working as Gang Starr for over 15 years, Guru & DJ Premier have more than earned their reputation as one of the most skilled, intelligent hip-hop outfits ever to grab the microphone and work the turntables.
With Gang Starr's prior release, the underrated HARD TO EARN, seemingly in the distant past (five years), THE OWNERZ reflects the deliberate nature of the meticulous duo. While Premier earned legendary status as producer on some of rap's most enduring records, he seems to do something extra for his home team, and THE OWNERZ may be his tightest work yet. From the Curtis Mayfield-esque opening of "Sabotage" to the deliriously offbeat feedback and horns of "Who Got Gunz," there's not one false note. Add Guru's patented, steady-but-unassuming swagger, and THE OWNERZ is precisely what the hip-hop world expects from Gang Starr, another classic.
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...Best of all are Premier's inventive backing tracks, hotwired with weird strings, unexpected piano and horn riffs....A class act still in their prime...
Uncut (09/01/2003)
...The melodies behind DJ Premier's secret-handshake beats are sweeter, but Guru is as bluntly eloquent as ever, delivering every rhyme as if it were a hard-nosed Brooklyn koan. - Rating: B
Spin (09/01/2003)
3 1/2 out of 5 - ...Gang Starr's formula is both straightforward and timeless....It brings back the power of the basics in an ever-evolving rap landscape...
Vibe (06/01/2003)
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