The God Emcee is again once more gliding over increase bap insanity after almost 15 years of being away from the rap recreation.
The challenge is an immediate, and includes a sizzling roster of a number of the most interesting hip hop lyricists ever, together with Prodigy, Masta Killa, Snoop Dogg, Nipsey Hussle, Kurupt, Methodology Man and extra. If this isn’t sufficient to place you on the album, properly, wait until you discover out that he’s produced your complete factor himself too!
1st Rakim album in 15 years!!
Characteristic checklist is INSANE
B.G.
DMX
Snoop
Skyzoo
Prodigy
Canibus
Chino XL
X-Raided
38 Spesh
Joell Ortiz
Masta Killa
Kool G Rap
Hus KingPin
Methodology Man
Nipsey Hussle
KXNG Crooked
Fred the Godson
LA The Darkman pic.twitter.com/lxWOauQMsH— Hip Hop By The Numbers (@HipHopNumbers) July 25, 2024
The seven observe challenge is on the market for bodily buy, with bundles and particular packages out there on the official web site for the challenge. With tracks like ‘Love is the Message’, Rakim brings a straightforward however masterful vibe to his lyrical supply, whereas on tracks like ‘Be Unwell’, Rakim doesn’t maintain again in meting out intricate rhymes with the angle of a veteran. The emcee has additionally displayed a positive sense of curation almost about the function line up, and has enlisted a number of the finest names to ever contact a mic. Nonetheless, amongst all of them, Rakim holds his personal and reaffirms his title because the God Emcee, the pioneer of his personal model of rap and storytelling that impressed many.
That is nice — Will Smith lastly tells Rakim he was attempting to sound like him on “Summertime”
For years the city legend was that Rakim ghostwrote the track for Will, when the truth is, it was written by the legendary MC Juice & recorded on the previous Jive Data studios in Chicago pic.twitter.com/0hCQ3c3axh
— Andrew Barber (@fakeshoredrive) December 12, 2023
Rakim’s verses are stuffed with intricate multi syllable rhyme motifs, which coupled together with his inside rhyme schemes are a stark reminder of his aggressive edge. Earlier, the emcee additionally took out an album sampler that precisely depicted the sonic journey of the album. In each means potential, Rakim has proven what it means to sweat the method and never present it, and the methods by which phrases can actually be organized in distinctive methods to not really feel overused and acquainted.
Together with his return, Rakim has made a daring assertion and has challenged the fashionable sound of hiphop with a reminder of the time handed — in addition to its very personal timelessness. Take a look at the challenge beneath to catch a flavour of it your self!