Rakim
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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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: Ladbroke Grove Subterania, London
Live Review by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 6 June 1998
HE CALLS himself "God". ...
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, April 2009
I GUESS you could say he's been away. But he's never strayed far. ...
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 ...
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' ...
see also Eric B. & Rakim
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