With a simple snare hit, the jazz/hip-hop fusion pioneer can affect the passing flow of time itself, slowing down the chaotic pace of urban strife - imagine Neo from The Matrix armed with a sampler instead of guns and you'll find Premier staring back. Witness his irresistibly bouncy baseline on "Dwyck", his assault of strings on "Soliloquy of Chaos", or the massive bottom blowing through the B-side "So Wassup?"and in them you'll find the essence of hip-hop music. The verbal complement to Premier's sonic sensibilities is Guru whose commitment to maintaining hip-hop's moral centre has helped him maintain a career that's outperformed (and outlasted) many a peer's.

Guru may not flex the most extreme rhyme schemes in terms of style or content, but whether he's penning morality tales (Just to Get a Rep, All 4 Tha Cash) or freely bragging and boasting (B.Y.S., I'm the Man), Guru strikes with insight and vigour, never led astray by delusions of grandeur. Aside from chronicling this remarkable career through its five-album catalog, Full Clip also includes fine new songs like "Discipline", once-exclusive B-side tracks like the bombastic "Credit Is Due", as well as soundtrack songs (check the incredibly funky Gotta Get Over and the classic ode to jazz's legacy, Jazz Thing) plus remixes. Full Clip isn't simply an essential album for the Gang Starr fan, or even hip-hop heads - it's one of the finest chronicles of pop music in the '90s, capturing the designs of a decade in the rhythmic pulse of Gang Starr.