Guru's family talk

The letter that Guru allegedly wrote on his deathbed has been attracting a lot of heat. Questions over its authenticity have been raised by a lot of folk. Now Guru's family have released a statement, which clearly shows that he was in a coma from mid February til he passed, which means he didn't write that letter. Read the statement here, on MissInfo's site.

Oliver Wang wrote a thoughtful obit for Guru for the LA Times. And the New York Times obit is worth a look too.  DJ Premier weighed in with a statement today too (via DJ Semtex blog). It's admirable the way he chose not to respond immediately to the slander in that alleged deathbed letter.

From the NYT obit... "Guru’s father, Harry Elam, was the first black judge in the Boston municipal courts, and his mother, Barbara, was the co-director of library programs in the Boston public school system."