Happy Birthday Rakim Allah

[Versive]

The God turns 47 today. Celebrating with a new Rakim-related blog post every day this week. Share some rarities here, and I'll happily include them.

[dilla7]

Happy Birthday To Rakim

[Versive]

In case yall missed it, some big re-ups in the week's proceedings.

Eric B. & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em Era Singles: http://www.longislandrap.com/2015/01/er ... ngles.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Rakim Collection: http://www.longislandrap.com/2015/01/th ... ction.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and other goodies

[dirt_dog]

I couldn't find any working linke to download the comps, so I took the time to extract them out of Audiomack.

Enjoy.

Eric_B._and_Rakim-B-Sides_Rarities_and_Remixes_(Vol._1)-WEB-2009
http://www.hiphopisread.com/2009/05/eri ... xes-1.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/qPaXVdjh/file.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Eric_B._and_Rakim-B-Sides_Rarities_and_Remixes_(Vol._2)-WEB-2009
http://www.hiphopisread.com/2009/05/eri ... xes-2.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www43.zippyshare.com/v/N7u6JXfk/file.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Eric_B._and_Rakim-B-Sides_Rarities_and_Remixes_(Vol._3)-WEB-2009
http://www.hiphopisread.com/2009/05/eri ... xes-3.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/b3VUcSeK/file.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Versive]

You the man. I'll credit you in the update.

[bbatson1]

The best. I know a lot of people like Ra on the 2nd and 3rd album the most, but the Paid In Full flow and voice is my alltime favorite. My Melody is perfection imo.

[Versive]

Here's an even more unpopular opinion: I think some of this best work is on The 18th Letter.