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Rakim

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Rakim: I'll Be Back

Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, December 1995

Once upon a rhyme, a young rapper called Rakim hooked up with a deejay named Eric B. The collision was cataclysmic and their impact deadly. ...

Rakim

Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, November 1997

THERE'S A shadow across Rakim's face, but his brown eyes are shining. The man who is for many the greatest rapper ever to have picked ...

Rakim: The 18th Letter (Universal 17 tks/58 mins)

Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 22 November 1997

HE IS the resurrection. From 1987 to 1992, Rakim was every hip hopper's MC choice, the rapper's rapper, responsible (forget Eric B — the man ...

Rakim: Ladbroke Grove Subterania, London

Live Review by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 6 June 1998

HE CALLS himself "God". ...

Jay-Z: Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter (Roc-A-Fella)/Rakim: The Master (Universal)

Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 19 January 2000

THIS ISN'T A generation-gap piece, really. I ain't even 30. But a lot of folks ain't authentically feeling Rakim Allah; they just takin' the "experts' ...

Rakim

Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, April 2009

I GUESS you could say he's been away. But he's never strayed far. ...

Rakim Speaks!

Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 6 June 2014

WITH BLACK MUSIC Month here, it's a perfect time to reflect on the aural architects who helped shaped the noir soundtracks to our lives. ...

Rakim, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté, and Other Rap Pioneers Celebrate Forty Years of Hip-Hop

Retrospective by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 3 May 2017

Old-school B-boys cold-lampin' at Disco Fever, c. 1979 ...

see also Eric B. & Rakim

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