Step in the Arena

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  Name Tag (Premier & The Guru)
  0:36
• 2
  Step in the Arena
  3:36
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Form of Intellect
  3:37
• 4
  Execution of a Chump (No More Mr. Nice Guy, Part 2)
  2:39
• 5
  Who’s Gonna Take the Weight?
  3:54
  4.5 ★
• 6
  Beyond Comprehension
  3:10
• 7
  Check the Technique
  3:55
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Lovesick
  3:22
• 9
  Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
  2:16
• 10
  Game Plan
  1:06
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  Take a Rest
  4:18
• 2
  What You Want This Time?
  2:39
• 3
  Street Ministry
  1:21
• 4
  Just to Get a Rep
  2:39
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Say Your Prayers
  1:20
• 6
  As I Read My S‐A
  2:35
• 7
  Precisely the Right Rhymes
  3:22
• 8
  The Meaning of the Name
  2:53
• 9
  Credit Is Due
  4:50
• 10
  Check the Technique (remix)
  4:16

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Hard to Earn

Hard to Earn 1994

One of the Best Yet

One of the Best Yet 2019

Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr

Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr 1999

Lovesick

Lovesick 1991

No More Mr. Nice Guy

No More Mr. Nice Guy 1989

Release credits

• DJ Premier
  producer [2.1-5, 2.7-8, 1.1-10]
• Guru
  producer [2.1-5, 2.7-8, 1.1-10], vocal [1.2, 1.5, 2.4]
• Howie Weinberg
  lacquer cut
• Shlomo Sonnenfeld
  engineer [1.3, 2.7-8]
• Yoram Vazan
  engineer [2-5]
• “Lightning” Lisle Leete
  engineer [1.1-2, 1.5-7, 1.9-10, 2.1], piano [4]

Issues

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  S
  (Combined release view)
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  S
  Step in the Arena

  CD
  1990
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  S
  Step in the Arena

  CD
  9 August 1991
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  S
  Step in the Arena

  CD
  1991
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  S
  Step in the Arena

  CD
  3 October 2007
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  S
  Step In The Arena

  2x 12" Vinyl
  28 June 2019