Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru breaks, aged 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, well known as the former frontman of the group Gang Starr, gone after a galore bout with cancer connected April 19, leaving down down a varsity letter to his buffs and suggestion an discharge of love along the worldwide Wide Web.


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Guru and his Gang Starr mate DJ Premier helped define the rank of New York's black hip hop scene in the 1990s, reportable to MTV.


"Their unique complete mixed Premier's output palette, which leant heavily connected sampled jazz records and scratched vocals on the chorus lines, with Guru's uncompromising rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman accounts. MTV features put up a collection of questions with Guru, letting in one in which he talks about hip hop's influence connected pop culture.


A tobacco grower whose ranges broken some of Cuba's nigh renowned leaves used in the country's cigar product makes passed of cancer, aged 91.


Alejandro Robaina - much an grand figurehead in the industry that one of the Caribbean island's top blackened brands was named after him - had, checking to local radio announcers, been a "victim of a sombre illness".


His running was confirmed by a family unit friend, Sergio Hernandez, who returned the "big heart" of Mr Robaina.


"He once told me he was a millionaire because he had a trillion friends all over the earth," he noted.


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


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

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