Years Active: 1990-2005
Member of: Eric B. & Rakim
Influenced by: Run-D.M.C.
Genre: Hip-Hop
Biography: Although he never became a household name, Rakim is near-universally acknowledged as one of the greatest MCs -- perhaps the ...
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02/03/09
Rakim Says New York Killed Hip-Hop In a recent interview with Connecticut's Hot 93.7, Ra...
The Boombox
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07/02/09
Hip-Hop Rumors:Soulja Boy Retires and Returns? Brisco Starting Label? New Jack City II A...
AllHipHop.com
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07/02/09
Blaq Poet: Queensbridge Survivor The latter applies to Blaq Poet, who was then a brash, ...
AllHipHop.com
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07/01/09
Twista: Second Chances With the curiosity surrounding Pinky-Gate, Twista has penetrated ...
AllHipHop.com
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07/01/09
Hip-Hop Rumors:Did Rakim Write For Will Smith? Chris Brown Mad At BET! MiJac Rumors! All...
AllHipHop.com
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06/26/09
11/14: Method Man & Redman Two great rappers for the price of one, freestyling over, und...
The Arizona Republic - Phoenix AZ
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06/23/09
THE BEST RAPPER EVER: The Final Four Begins! Six weeks, and 131 rappers later, and we're...
Vibe
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06/18/09
Hip-Hop Rumors: Young Jeezy Stabbed? 50 Cent Disses Jay-Z? Poor Kelis...! All content wi...
AllHipHop.com
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06/10/09
Mos Def Thinks Jay-Z Should Defend His 'Greatest Rapper Alive' Title When Mos Def visite...
MTV
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06/10/09
TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE: M.O.P. M.O.P. have stomped around Hip-Hop's battlefield for quite s...
AllHipHop.com
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06/04/09
TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE: illseed S traight up, I like ill MC's The rappers that I have alway...
AllHipHop.com
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06/03/09
Hip-hop's answer to 'Guitar Hero' shows potential At least in terms of video games, whic...
UWIRE
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05/29/09
11/14: Method Man & Redman Two great rappers for the price of one, freestyling over, und...
The Arizona Republic - Phoenix AZ
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05/28/09
BREEDING GROUND: Reks When you're a kid coming up dreams and aspirations are all you have.
AllHipHop.com
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05/28/09
TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE: Shawnna S hawnna loves Hip-Hop is ways the voyeur cannot fathom.
AllHipHop.com
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04/16/09
BREEDING GROUND: Wordsmith After only a few moments of speaking with Wordsmith one can s...
AllHipHop.com
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04/07/09
REVIEW: Lil Wayne sizzles for crowd of of 10,000 He's a New Orleans rapper with a Cash M...
Omaha World Herald - Omaha NE
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03/31/09
Saigon: A New Beginning Before the release of his Statik Selektah produced album All In ...
AllHipHop.com
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03/12/09
Actor/Rapper Joaquin Phoenix Fights Fan at Show Former actor turned rapper Joaquin Phoen...
AllHipHop.com
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03/09/09
The 10 B.I.G. Commandments March 9th, 2007 marked the 10 yr anniversary of the death of ...
AllHipHop.com
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02/19/09
Top 5 Dead Or Alive: Jigsaw, Co-founder of AllHipHop.com So, my name is Chuck "Jigsaw" C...
AllHipHop.com
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02/10/09
Rick Ross To Release Before I Self Destruct Before 50 Cent Rick Ross said he's going to ...
VH1
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02/03/09
Rakim Says New York Killed Hip-Hop In a recent interview with Connecticut's Hot 93.7, Ra...
The Boombox
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02/03/09
Hip-Hop Vet Bill Adler Reveals Details Behind Run-DMC Bio Pic Adler, a veteran of the mu...
AllHipHop.com
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02/01/09
Rakim Blames New York For New York’s Dying State Rakim, one of the legends of Hip-Hop, h...
AllHipHop.com
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01/22/09
TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE: RZA B eside a knack for freaking ridiculous beats, if RZA possesses...
AllHipHop.com
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01/16/09
Rakim 'Seal'-ing the deal on return to hip-hop Twenty-three years later, his timing for ...
Boston Herald - Boston MA
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01/12/09
Capone-N-Noreaga: Still Reporting Since then, the duo has gone through more than a few f...
AllHipHop.com
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01/07/09
TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE: Juelz Santana We welcome supporters, complainers, and swagger jacke...
AllHipHop.com
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01/05/09
Somalian Rapper Schools American MCs Morning Edition , January 6, 2009 - News from Somal...
NPR
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12/30/08
The Top Ten Black Power Themed Rap Acts...according to Marcus Reeves E ven though real H...
AllHipHop.com
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02/17/09
Interview: K'Naan - Hip Hop Artist In the age of Obama, mainstream rap could really use...
Blogcritics.org Music
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02/03/09
Rakim Says New York Killed Hip-Hop In a recent interview with Connecticut's Hot 93.7, Ra...
The Boombox
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01/29/09
hip hop. i was just talking to a friend of mine about the early days of hip-hop in nyc. ...
Moby
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12/17/08
Noisemakers with Peter Rosenberg featuring DJ Premier, Dec 11 It was bitterly cold and r...
Time Out NY
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09/24/08
100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs Ever!!! What's the hardest gangsta joint around?
VH1 Blog
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08/17/08
Nas takes the crown at Rock the Bells That's ironic, for sure, given that the rapper was...
The Concert Blog
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08/04/08
Edan With this refreshing instalment of laugh-out-loud lyrical strangeness, Edan (pronou...
Mojo
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07/31/08
an interview with BROTHER ALI + 2 MP3s & a free show Everything Ant and I do starts with...
Brooklyn Vegan
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07/29/08
Idolator Rocks The Bells, Develops Kyphosis [ON THE SCENE] A bunch of younger cats who w...
Idolator
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07/15/08
Book Notes - Mark LeVine ("Heavy Metal Islam") In the Book Notes series, authors create ...
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