“I perform in cities, hoods & slums, The best seller is drugs, and money’s the only thing that gets love, They say don’t let it make you, but that’s how they rate you, And the more you got, the more they hate you…”

Another page turns on the calender, but you’d never know it by strolling through an inner-city neighborhood.  Things pretty much stay the same while the ever changing cast of characters are the only way of marking time.  With an assist from Maino, The God MC breaks it down on this cut off his latest album The Seventh Seal.

While he’s always been one to drop knowledge on the mic, the visuals show he’s fully embraced the role of the corner OG.

If it wasn’t for William Griffin Jr. and the innovative style of rhyming that he displayed on his genre-shaping album Paid In Full in 1987, Hip-Hop may have never reached the heights that it has reached in the past two decades. Rakim’s status is nothing short of a living legend and his influence reaches across nearly every spread of contemporary music, whether intentionally or not. After a full decade since his last release, The God MC decided to serve up his much anticipated 8th LP The Seventh Seal with his eager fans chomping at the bit to get a taste. Read the rest of this entry »

While the original featured Jada, Rakim is joined by some of NY’s finest for this iTunes bonus from the God MC’s The Seventh Seal. Read the rest of this entry »

“…tsunami it out.”

Gotty™ v. LC debates are frequent, but rarely heated. He pushes me toward levels of thought I would believe to run perpendicular to my own, but indeed often run parallel on a different plane. But one thing we will never agree on is public radio. Read the rest of this entry »

If ever there was a Smoking Session that needn’t nary an introduction, this would be it. A living legend and mythical mononym, Rakim builds with TSS Crew’s TC about his forthcoming album The Seventh Seal and how a pioneer can still break new ground amongst an even newer generation. Read the rest of this entry »

In regards to “Walk These Streets,” this new Maino-assisted heatrock from A3C headliner Rakim, I couldn’t help but get this extremely weird inkling that Dr. Dre was manning the ship as I streamed the fiery drop from Ra Allah’s upcoming album, The Seventh Seal. Read the rest of this entry »

KoKo Reign > Knowledge Reigns Supreme

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As far as mythical albums go, The Seventh Seal > Detox. Read the rest of this entry »