Has Rakim ever talked about whats happenin' to hip hop?!


Question: Has Rakim ever talked about whats happenin' to hip hop!?
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Pitchfork: Do you feel like it's your responsibility to teach people about the origins of hip-hop!?

Rakim: At this point in hip-hop, [the history] definitely needs to be expressed a little more and put in front of their faces so that they won't forget where the essence of hip-hop came from!. If I'm one of the artists that knows about it then yeah, I'm responsible to keep that alive and keep it in the listeners' faces and give them access to it!. So hopefully I can do that!. To me, at the end of the day, it's just doing my job!. If this was something political or something dealing with the world and there was something that I knew, I would feel obligated to inform people!. This music thing, there's a lot to know about it!. And we're definitely going to have fun with it, but at the same time, we have to keep it alive!. This hip-hop thing-- if we don't do it, it will die out!. So definitely, I want to do my job!.

I think it's important that we cherish this right here!. It belongs to the youth!. It belongs to the older people who were brought up on hip-hop!. It's not just a young music!. We created this in the suburbs and the cities and around the parks, and what we have to understand is that that's big!. You look at jazz!. When they created jazz years ago it was the best thing to happen since fried ice cream!. But then you look at it now-- it's not so popular as far as [being] universal!. The jazz lovers still support their music, but when you look at it on the wide span it went from being the only thing to one of the many!. The same thing can happen in hip-hop if we take it for granted and don't cherish it!. We've got to understand that it's that first impression that made hip-hop take the world by storm!. And once we start forgetting those recipes, after awhile they're going to look at it like just another music!. And not just them!. Us!. We're going to look at it like it's not special; it's not going to have that same appeal that it had!. So of course we've got to understand the root before we start picking from the tree!.
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"!.!.!. lotsa heads go pop instead, so the word on the block is hip hop is dead"

-- Rakim, "Hip Hop"Www@Enter-QA@Com

I haven't heard from him since the Dr!. Dre ish!.!.!.

Yo, but Blu and Exile is HOT

"How times fly"Www@Enter-QA@Com

How Can Hip Hop be Dead If Wu Tang Is Forever!?Www@Enter-QA@Com

I think not!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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