Links for Rakim

[Hallbanger]

im doing a research project in this tite ass music class in school, and my teacher is letting me do mine on Rakim. i was wondering if anyone knew any good sites to get lots of information on him. does he have an official website? names or links to good sites would be greatly appreciated. thanx

 

[one mc on dj]

try google..for links


Oh I hate it when others make posts like that but I can't help you otherwise..you might get a fansite on google ya know :thumb:

 

[roaches]

http://www.thaformula.com/rakim_-_tha_return_of_tha_mic_god_-_part_1.htm
http://thaformula.com/rakimfeature.htm

http://www.ohhla.com/YFA_rakim.html

 

[2Pac-arab]

www.google.com

 

[2Pac-arab]

did rakim produce any album in aftermath ?

 

[Nijlie]

Maybe I can learn somethinh bout this thread

 

[imported_MAKaveli_10]

Damn google got like a million sites on Rakim

 

[PaulyPac]

 

[Rock]

paulypac licks poogle...

 

[PaulyPac]

e-stalking me again grrrRR

ill get you, you'll see

 

[PDT]

http://www.rakim.com

Very good choice by tha way. I used to go to rakim-central.com but I don't think it's open anymore

 

[AmerikazMost]

how bout me?

i know a little bit, so if you have any questions, PM me and i'll try and help

no guarantees though

 

[roaches]

There was a conversation about flow on another board, a poster posted this which I thought was pretty good. Should help you realize why Rakim is so important:

The old school Melle Mel approach - Melle Mel was the best at it, but he wasn't the first one to rock a style like that. I'll argue that his style grew out of what was jumping off at the park and community centers. Where those cats got it, seems like a "natural" transition from Herc's one liners, the call and response, to emphasizing the tail end of the call and response.

King of Rock, there is no HIGHER
Sucker mc's, call me SIRE.

or

Put your left leg down, your right leg UP
tilt your head back, and finish the CUP

Now my argument, without going back and listening to every record and recording the dates and checking the playlist coverage, is that Rakim was the first to really flip a style, that didn't end with mad stress on the last word of the line. This happened 13 years into the game, so it was real discovery./breakthrough

1) his style opens up lines for more words and more syllables than previously thought

2) his lyrical content was just on some other shit. He was doing something completely different than just dissing sucker mc's and talking about his day - that's a big conceptual jump to me.

3) Most importantly, he showed the rap world that you could be ridiculously dope with a new and different style. So even if you didn't copy Rakim, you no longer had to sound like Melle Mel. And when you listen to records from those days prior to Rakim, they all did the same sort of last word stressed old school rhyming. So after Rakim, you could come with a totally different style than Rakim, where before you had to sound like everyone else. - This is an even bigger conceptual jump.

That's my argument. I think to prove it, we'd just need to get a list of dope records before rakim, and just see if anyone was really doing something really different than the old school style. You can pretty much put all those names on a timeline, and maybe on a map. Then do the same thing for the mc's after Rakim and see what happened.

Indeed, the question you should really ask, of the NYC cats who dropped records before and after Rakim, who stuck with the old school style?

 

[Echso]

did rakim produce any album in aftermath ?

www.google.com

lmao I had to.