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Hard to Earn is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo Gang Starr. It was released on March 8, 1994, by Chrysalis and EMI Records in North America. The album featured the singles "Dwyck" (featuring Nice & Smooth ), "Mass Appeal" (their first charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart), and "Code of the Streets".
They released four singles: “Suckaz Need Bodyguards,” “Code of the Streets,” “Mass Appeal,” and “DWYCK” with Nice & Smooth.
They did, however, gain new fans with one of their biggest songs, “DWYCK,” featuring the jovial, silky duo Nice & Smooth. “DWYCK” has a couple of meanings, but we also know it describes New Yawk City in the summer, down to the bodega cat and quarter drinks.
GangStarr’s fourth album, “Hard to Earn,” is their oddest and most uneven work. For better or worse, it is also their most creative. Premier’s production bounces around in eclectic fashion, and he uses both old-fashion jazz loops and samples that are far more obscure and difficult.
The single “DWYCK” recorded in 1992 also featured Hip Hop duo Nice & Smooth. The track “Now You’re Mine” originally appeared on the 1992 Soundtrack “White Men Can’t Rap”. Hard To Earn is also the duo’s first album to carry the “Parental Advisory” label.
Gang Starr's fourth album, 'Hard to Earn,' saw Guru and DJ Premier consolidating their sound for another masterpiece of NYC hip-hop.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1994 CD release of "Hard To Earn" on Discogs.
