A critique of the sellouts watering down their sound for mainstream success. Even though Guru and Primo did more commercial projects separately, together their output was always 100% hardcore Hip Hop. Any wider success Gang Starr achieved was due to the mainstream crossing over to them rather than vice versa. DJ Premier said the following about “Mass Appeal”: "We were really making fun of radio, and it became our biggest radio record. And to this day it’s one of my favorites ever."

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