Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cuban cigar guru passes, old 91

Rapper Keith "Guru" Elam, better known as the former frontman of the grouping Gang Starr, died after a galore bout with cancer connected April 19, leaving down a alphabetic character to his devotees and striking an flood of love connected the web.


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


"Their unique good blended Premier's product pallette, which listed heavily along sampled jazz records and scratched vocals along the choruses, with Guru's hardline rhymes," MTV's Gil Kaufman reports. MTV features put up a collection of audiences with Guru, letting in one in which he hashes out hip hop's influence connected pop culture.


A tobacco grower whose crops established some of Cuba's near renowned results used in the country's cigar yield carries died of cancer, aged 91.


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


His running was confirmed by a class friend, Sergio Hernandez, who thought the "big heart" of Mr Robaina.


"He once separated me he was a millionaire because he had a billion friends all over the humans," he remarked.


One of the agriculturist's grandsons nowadays runs his farm, with Robaina cigars marketed the humans over in connective with Habanos and the Imperial tobacco plant grouping, which is based in London.


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

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