Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru exits, old 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, well lived as the former frontman of the grouping Gang Starr, gone after a careful bout with cancer on April 19, giving bottom a varsity letter to his buffs and affecting an run of love connected the humans Wide Web.


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Guru and his Gang Starr collaborator DJ Premier served define the good of New York's subway system hip hop scene in the 1990s, reportable to MTV.


"Their unique deep compounded Premier's production pallette, which leant heavily along sampled jazz records and scratched vocals on the choruses, with Guru's hard-line rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman reports. MTV features put up a collection of interviews with Guru, accepting one in which he hashes out hip hop's influence on pop culture.


A tobacco grower whose cultivates broken some of Cuba's nearly renowned results used in the country's cigar product has gone of cancer, aged 91.


Alejandro Robaina - overmuch an essential figurehead in the industry that one of the Caribbean island's top smoke-filled brands was named after him - had, matching to local radio announcers, been a "victim of a sombre illness".


His pass was confirmed by a family line friend, Sergio Hernandez, who thought the "big heart" of Mr Robaina.


"He once stated me he was a millionaire because he had a cardinal friends all over the Earth," he noted.


One of the agriculturist's grandsons instantly runs his farm, with Robaina cigars marketed the humans over in coincidence with Habanos and the Imperial tobacco group, which is based in London.


Other hot news from the cigar man included the launch of a new smoke designed specifically for women.

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