Ohh. Jake and Janelle do "stomp" in Harlem and this is a club that we frequent too. Now this celebration took place earlier this year for a tribute to a "FAMED"
New York Hip-Hop Rapper named Rakim.
If you in New York check-out Phuket Lounge- 701 West 135 Street, New York, NY 10031; Phone: (212) 234-2288.
Guarantee to make you satisfied Party People
Rakim Biography:
Born William Michael Griffin Jr. on January 28, 1968, in Wyandanch, Long Island, NY.
Rapper Rakim has long been considered a preeminent talent in a genre whose leaders are often quickly replaced. Billed as a hardcore East Coast rapper because of his penchant for blunt imagery, he has nonetheless avoided profanity and held to an unfaltering message that deplored violence and praised God and peace. In some respects a throwback to the 1960s, this emcee and lyricist has offered listeners a markedly updated twist on the peace-and-love philosophy of that era. Employing the accelerated beat of turn-of-the-century rap and hip-hop, he remained immensely popular among his peers even as other early rap artists fell into obscurity. After coming to fame as the emcee of the Eric B. & Rakim duo, he emerged as a solo artist in the mid-1990s. Rakim signed with Aftermath Records early in 2002 before breaking out independently in 2003.
It was disc jockey Eric Barrier of radio station WBLS who first recognized Rakim's talent while seeking an MC to complement his experiments with sampling in 1985. Barrier took Rakim as a protégé, and the two performed as a duo, with Barrier topping the marquee. Originally billed as Eric featuring Rakim, they recorded a single track, "Eric B. Is President," as a demo in 1986. Zakia Records, an independent Harlem-based label, released this demo track as a two-sided single, paired with "My Melody," that same year. In the lyrics of this early song, which became a summertime street hit, Rakim glorified the influence and power of professional MCs such as himself. He pondered the microphone, the tool of his trade, describing its lure: "Biting me fighting me inviting me to rhyme/I can't hold it back I'm looking for the line ... no mistakes allowed/Cuz to me, MC means move the crowd."
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