The God Emcee is again once more gliding over growth bap insanity after practically 15 years of being away from the rap sport.
The mission is an prompt, and contains a scorching roster of a few of the most interesting hip hop lyricists ever, together with Prodigy, Masta Killa, Snoop Dogg, Nipsey Hussle, Kurupt, Technique Man and extra. If this isn’t sufficient to place you on the album, effectively, wait until you discover out that he’s produced your entire factor himself too!
1st Rakim album in 15 years!!
Function record is INSANE
B.G.
DMX
Snoop
Skyzoo
Prodigy
Canibus
Chino XL
X-Raided
38 Spesh
Joell Ortiz
Masta Killa
Kool G Rap
Hus KingPin
Technique 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 monitor mission is accessible for bodily buy, with bundles and particular packages obtainable on the official web site for the mission. With tracks like ‘Love is the Message’, Rakim brings a straightforward however masterful vibe to his lyrical supply, whereas on tracks like ‘Be In poor health’, Rakim doesn’t maintain again in doling out intricate rhymes with the perspective of a veteran. The emcee has additionally displayed a tremendous sense of curation on the subject of the function line up, and has enlisted a few 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 type of rap and storytelling that impressed many.
That is nice — Will Smith lastly tells Rakim he was making an attempt to sound like him on “Summertime”
For years the city legend was that Rakim ghostwrote the music for Will, when the truth is, it was written by the legendary MC Juice & recorded on the previous Jive Information 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 inner 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 approach attainable, Rakim has proven what it means to sweat the approach and never present it, and the methods through 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 trendy sound of hiphop with a reminder of the time handed — in addition to its very personal timelessness. Try the mission beneath to catch a flavour of it your self!