Guru Album: “Baldhead Slick & da Click”

I love Guru, have his every album, and was naturally eagerly anticipating this one...only to be greatly disappointed. The album is at best insignificant. Before I continue, i must say that I truly hope that Guru returns to concious hip-hop and lyrics that actually mean something...Guru, that's what I respect you for!

On this album Guru's art and style degenerated into the type of disposable music common today. The lyrics are tired. Substance has been replaced by numerous expletives... and emptiness. The beats are monotonous and melodies are barely present. I got an impression that Guru is abandoning everything he once was (hopefully just musically) to gain mainstream following and more importantly make some money.

I took the CD out of my CD player with great bitterness. I could not believe this was Guru. Just hope that Guru that we know would one day be back.

Yet another hot underground LP from Mr. Guru. With producers like Premo (of course), Alchemist, Pete Rock, J-Love, and a handful of others, you know the beats are on point. The lyrics are definitly there with the king of monotone plus appearances by Boston collegue-Ed O.G., Ice T, Treach, Big Shug, and many others. Although it doesnt sound like classic Guru from the Gangstarr days, it still keeps your head boppin. Basically its just another niiceee guru album that makes you just wanna chill and take the vibe in....

This CD really helped me get through the times after the Sept. 11 tragedy. It came out about two weeks after the tragedy and I, being a hardcore Guru/Gangstarr fan, got my hand on it right away. I really like how Guru uses his good taste/knowledge in real hip-hop and features MCs who are underrated but can still rip the mic apart: you know, Inspectah Deck, Treach (Naughty by Nature), Krumb, Ed OG, Fatal, Teflon, etc are all certified spitters in their own rights. This was around the time when Guru started going back to his Boston roots. I'd give it more stars but it's not fair to Moment of Truth, Hard 2 Earn, Daily Operation, etc. Solid! I still listen to tracks from it to this day.

Note: this is dope peoples. I usually don't write reviews here but I had to on this one after reading some negative reviews.

Great album. Hussein Fatal, James Gotti & New Child kill it. Guru is sick. He finally went solo & this album is fire

More like 4 1/2.gurus pretty much a legend to his new unheard of type of music. His new style of hip hop which he calls jazzmatazz, was good throughout his whole trilogy, this time its a little different. He ditches the jazzmatazz style a little, and goes back to the times of gang starr, and modernizes it. Although a little disapointed, i thought this album was pretty phat my self.