Gang Starr’s MC Guru In Coma After Heart Attack

Dave Bry
The Awl
Published in
1 min readMar 1, 2010

Sad rap news. Keith “Guru” Elam, MC in the beloved duo Gang Starr, is apparently in a coma after suffering a heart attack. He’s scheduled to undergo surgery later today. Here’s wishing him a full recovery. Above, the video for the classic, “Mass Appeal,” which was the definitive sound of the New York City streets my first summer living here, 1994.

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Dave Bry
The Awl

I grew up in New Jersey. I live in New York. I write for the Awl, and also a book called Public Apology, for Grand Central Publishing.