iTunes Review
“Never takin’ shorts cause Brooklyn’s the borough” murmurs the one and only Guru on Daily Operation’s opening track “The Place Where We Dwell,” a veritable love letter of a song that finds Guru delivering a besotted panegyric to his adopted home. Though neither Guru nor his partner DJ Premier originally hailed from Brooklyn, together they managed to create the perfect sonic counterpart to the borough’s trash-strewn avenues, crowded ball-courts, and sweltering summer block parties. Daily Operation is never saccharine or overblown, Premier’s beats are steady and true, and Guru smartly skirts hyperbole with his unvarying monotone. If anything, Daily Operation is an ode to a Brooklyn landscape that might have been, one filled with aspiring MC’s and hard edged hustlers looking for something better, and defined by an all encompassing need to get over. An entire generation of MC’s would look to Guru’s tales of Brooklyn life for inspiration while countless producers would attempt, often with little success, to replicate the fearsome precision of Premier’s beats. A masterpiece in every sense of the word, Daily Operation will still be considered a classic long after the Brooklyn that Premier and Guru eulogized has passed from existence.
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