Rap’s professor emeritus Rakim responded to Kendrick Lamar name-dropping him on his “Chains & Whips” guest verse from the Clipse‘s new album Let God Sort Em Out. In the verse, Lamar suggested he might ...

In a rare and historic moment for Hip Hop, Detroit emcee Lazarus teams up with the legendary Rakim, delivering a soul-stirring, bar-heavy anthem titled “Not to Be Defined.” More than just a ...

Today, hip-hop history is reborn, as Rakim, widely regarded as The God MC and one of the most influential lyricists of all time, returns with the announcement of a new project The Re‑Up. Setting the ...

The Mount Rushmore Hip-Hop supergroup featuring KRS-One Rakim Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap has already collapsed before it could begin. But now, let me be the first to tell you: that dream has ...

“I start to think and then I sink/ Into the paper like I was ink/ When I’m writing, I’m trapped in between/ The lines/ I escape when I finish the rhyme.” The first time I heard these lines from Eric B ...

Chris Broussard explains how Chris Paul returning to the LA Clippers is "KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Rakim, and Big Daddy Kane forming a super hip hop group." ...