And the truth keeps coming out… I shouldnt be surprised about what has been reveiled.. but damn.. this is too much.. it is unbelievably sad that this happened to a Hip Hop icon, one we all look up to, love and respect.
The first news I read today was that the foundation mentioned in “Gurus last letter” (it reads: “I have a non-profit organization called Each One Counts dedicated to carrying on my charitable work on behalf of abused and disadvantaged children from around the world and also to educate and research a cure for this terrible disease that took my life.”) was never registered in Gurus name, but in the name of Denise Sandoval, Solars wife. www.hiphopdx.com writes:
” According to an investigation conducted by BirthplaceMag.com, who looked at Each One Counts’ tax records, the foundation is listed under a Denise Sandoval.. Last week, the website spoke to a friend of Solar and Guru, who stated, “The foundation is something Solar started. Guru was aware of the foundation, but nothing was ever done with it. It was something Solar always wanted to get going but never did.” It was also revealed that the non-profit earned less than $25,000 a year, yet never filed the proper tax documents.”
Well, obviously Solar is trying to profit off of Gurus fans and whoever wants to help by donating.
Another article I came across this morning was even more shoking and has left me in tears… hiphopdx.com interviewed Tasha Denham, who was a personal friend of Guru, mother of Solars child and a former employee of both. In this interview she describes her time working for them, the transition from Gang starr to 7 grand records and the twisted relationship Guru and Solar had. This was a very long interview and I am posting, what seemed to me to be the most interesting parts. Of course you can also read the full interview at: http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interviews/id.1535/title.tasha-denham-just-to-get-a-rep
“I have had a lot of people reach out to me since Guru’s passing – and before, when he was in the hospital that knew I worked for them and knew I was close, at one point in time, to them. They said, “I always thought it was strange, ’cause I’d come up to them at a concert and I’d want to take a picture with just Guru. But if I wanted a picture, I had to take one with both Guru and Solar.” If he was gonna do an interview, it had to be both Guru and Solar. Guru was not allowed to do interviews by himself.”
“I think what’s distanced Solar so much from so many of the Gang Starr fans is he always acted like he was in competition with Premier instead of taking the natural route that he was Guru’s partner now, after Premier. [Instead, Solar] came across with so much anger about it. He truly believes that Premier was financing a campaign agaist him on the Internet – a hate campaign.”
“Solar convinced Guru, at that point in time, that Premier had put the hit out on him, and Premier wanted him dead.”
“It hurts me to read this [last] letter. If he did write this letter – which I truly have my doubts on, I can’t say that some of it was not things that they had spoken on before, and stuff that Solar put it into words himself. I’m not gonna say that, I wasn’t there. Do I believe Guru wrote the letter word-for-word or even sentence-by-sentence? I don’t believe that. I really hope that Guru didn’t spend his last moments of consciousness with hate like that. I didn’t know Guru to be like that. I didn’t know Guru to be a hateful person. There were other people in Guru’s life that Solar had spoken ill of to Guru and had convinced Guru [were] against him. In speaking to Guru in private, Guru himself wasn’t always convinced of that. Guru didn’t always believe, but at the same time, he didn’t always want to speak that back to Solar because it would’ve not been a good situation either.”
“I think the way Solar is, he needed it to be that way, because that’s the way of control. You get somebody, and you distance them from everyone else. They see you on a daily basis. You’re their man day in and day out, the first person you talk to in the morning, the last person you talk to before you go to bed, that’s gonna be the person you’re gonna turn to for everything. That’s the way to best control someone.”
“it was the way Solar spoke to Guru. It was always down to him. He really belittled him, and would do it in front of other people. This wasn’t something he just did in private. He is a member of The [Five Percent] Nation of Gods and Earths, as is Guru. He would use that against him, to bring him down. It was important to both of them, very important. I believe Guru’s a pleaser; he liked to make people happy. [Solar] would tell him that the Nation of Gods and Earths are ashamed of him, they’re disappointed in him. That he doesn’t live up to their teachings.”
“Guru kept defending himself. Guru actually stood up and kind of got in Solar’s face about it. Next thing I know, Solar punched him in the face. From that point in time, he just started kicking him and hitting him. Guru was fighting back, he wasn’t just sitting there being a punk, but at the same time, Guru had severe asthma. He didn’t have his inhaler. He started really hyper-ventalating and really having a hard time, and Solar kept beating him. It wasn’t a fight anymore, it was beating him…..Instead of stopping and making sure his partner, friend, “brother” – as he calls him was okay, Guru was sitting there saying, “I’m having an asthma attack. I need to go to the hospital. I think I’m gonna have a heart attack.” He’s bleeding, really shaking. Instead of stopping and calming himself down, [Solar] told me, “We’re leaving,” and goes and gets in the car and drives me back to the city. [He] didn’t call and check on Guru, didn’t make sure he was alright.”
“I saw [Guru] punched in the face numerous times with no provocation. It [would just be] that he’d get upset with something Guru would say and punch him in the face. I know he knocked a tooth out of Guru’s. I know he gave him a black eye [so Guru would] have to wear glasses for photo-shoots and concerts. To listen to [Solar] talk to [Guru], you’d think he was talking to a child sometimes. Guru would tell me how bad that hurt him. He’d say, “Back when we were just friends, he never would have spoken to me this way. He always treated me with respect. Now that we’re doing this record label, he has no respect. He treats me this way.” There was a fear in him. Solar had distanced him from everything in his life: his family, his ex-partner, the whole Gang Starr Foundation and the music industry, really, as a whole. Guru spent a lot of time alone.”
“He’d tell me that Solar was checking his emails. I was also informed that, the longer and longer it went, that Solar even took Guru’s phone away for days at a time. Guru wasn’t allowed to have a personal life at all. Even when they were on tour, he took Guru’s inhaler from him and told him that he wasn’t allowed to use it, because it was a crutch, and that he didn’t really need it.”
“Solar’s a bully. He’s all talk. He preys on people [that] he can bully. If you won’t go along with Solar and you won’t let him control you, he will have nothing to do with you. He couldn’t control me, and that’s why he got rid of me. As soon as [DJ] Doo Wop quit working for them, Guru wasn’t allowed to speak to Doo Wop anymore. A man that had been in his life, on a daily basis for almost five years, and he’d known for almost 15, he wasn’t allowed to speak to him anymore. Guru was so sick [from the cancer] by that point in time too.”
“I believe that he saw a meal-ticket in Guru. Instant fame, instant fortune.”
“I’ve been told that he and – who I’m now finding out is his legal wife, which I was not aware was his legal wife — Denise Sandoval. I know her another by another name (“Asia”). Just like Solar doesn’t go by John, she doesn’t go by Denise Sandoval. Guru was never aware that she was his legal wife. Guru told me things that he wasn’t always supposed to tell me. If he had honestly known, I truly believe he would’ve told me the truth on that one. I don’t think he ever knew. That’s supposed to be his best friend. Solar didn’t even want to admit the truth about that in his life.”
“I’m not sure what his motivation is. Everything he puts out there, he [uses to discredit other people]. [His] going to speak to Sway on MTV, I don’t 
understand the motivation. He’s just giving himself more rope to hang himself. He’s just looking more and more guilty in everything he speaks, because he’s so blatantly…it’s so blatantly not true, the things he’s saying. He embellishes things so much. But I truly believe he believe the things he says.”
“He has to know, now, with the feelings that people have towards him in the music industry, there is no music career left for him. Who’s gonna work with him? “
nuff said…
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This post was mentioned on Twitter by Istillloveher: “Solar punched him in the face.he just started kicking and hitting him.”
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