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Solar’s PR company respond to claims and hacks
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 12 May 2010
The Guru/Solar story continues to rumble on three weeks after the Gang Starr legend’s death.
As previously reported, producer Solar, who collaborated with Guru in recent years, issued a statement shortly after his musical partner’s death which, he claimed, Guru had written. Given half of the statement was used to assign to Solar control of the Guru legacy, while the other half was spent dissing the late rapper’s Gang Starr partner DJ Premier, many have questioned the authenticity of the letter. Speculation that has some credibility given that various family members, and DJ Premier, have claimed that Guru never regained consciousness after slipping into a coma earlier in the year.
As well as disputing the legitimacy of the deathbed note, some have also criticised Solar over the way Guru was cared for in his final weeks. Solar claims to have single handedly taken care of the comatose rapper, but others say Guru was in a terrible state by the time of his actual death. To that end, it seems that last week an unknown person hacked into Solar’s AOL account and accessed emails, photos and documents, which were then leaked on the net. The hacker claimed the leaked correspondence and files proved Solar had provided inadequate care for Guru. The producer’s Twitter account and MySpace profile were also hacked.
The leaked documents also led to some online criticism being made of the PR company that has been responsible for distributing Solar’s various statements to the press, including the dubious deathbed proclamation and an earlier statement attributed to Guru regarding the rapper’s health.
A rep for said PR company, Yo! Promotions, told AllHipHop.com yesterday: “We have learned from [Guru’s label] 7 Grand Records that Solar’s official AOL e-mail account was hacked and that various e-mail communications between Solar and Yo! Promotions are currently circulating the internet. While these confidential e-mail communications contain nothing to discredit our firm’s professional work in any way, we do reject such illegal actions”.
Reacting to those who dispute the legitimacy of the two statements issued by them on Solar’s behalf that were attributed to Guru himself, Yo! chief Kai Denninger said his company had high “ethical standards” and “verified” every statement before issuing them to the press. He concluded: “It was an honour for Yo! Promotions to work with Guru on his last projects and we will sorely miss him, both from a personal and from a professional standpoint. Our warmest condolences to Guru’s family, Solar, 7 Grand Records, and Guru’s loved ones”.
