Rakim Says Upcoming Album Ready by Summer

I sure wish he stated what troubled the god emcee about aftermath, because i'm confused; dre is a dope producer.......

I belive they had creative differences because both dr.dre and rakim are legends in their own right, i'm just upset they could not work it out.

It would have been nice to get two legends together.....

From what i hear about dre is that he has a perfectionist attitude that sometimes compromises an individual's talent. I would support anything my man rakim comes out with whether it has an aftermath stamp on it or not.

Nah, i think it was just different work styles. Dre had so many projects going on he could only give an hour here and there and let other prod. Do most of the day2day. Rakim would do like 3 days straight and then break for a minute. Cant screw with each style, just dont mash 2getha

I personally feel like they should have put the diffrences aside for the fans sake, that would have been a deadly combination, 2 of the grestest of all time working together, the rap game as a hole would have benifited from that, the god emcee rakim over dr dres beats, one could only wonder.

Yall must have missed the xxl interview when rakim said he didnt click wit dre cuz dre wants somebody to massage his ego and praise him likes he's god allday. Rakim said he wasnt for that sh*t , so he bounced, end of story.

I sure hope that this album will be a classic

Thank god.

Its ill...that the r didnt go with that homo dre as his label and producer...its not even a dre beat half the time.....his ghost producers lists some ill cats...''jelly roll''.... ''fredwreck'' ... ;;scot storch''...and on top of all that he doesnt even write his own rhymes...''royce 5 9''... ''the doc''' and didnt jay z write his rhymes once or twice???...hes a fukin vantrilliquest with mad puppets....

Yeah rakim and dre seem like a good match but oh well im still lookin forward to rah's cd but summer is to long away lolol.

Nah rakim & dr wont work, ra has got more of an east coast underground, poetry in motion kinda vibe and dre has got more of a gun in ya face kinda person its not the same genre no what im sayin , now dj primo would make rakim bak on top but dre? come on dre makes beats for 50 cent & eminem & snoopy , ra's level is sooooo mucch more than that, he is a fukin legend and the best thing to ever happen to hip-hop it, dre should be payin him to stay!

Dr dre is and wanted to get at the god in exchange for producing a hot album for him and the god wasn't having it.

My man the ledgendary mic god,and second to none,when it come's to a mc spitting that blazing fire on the open-mic,"rakim allah!!!!",will serve the street's with the proper heat that's really/sincerely needed.i pray to god that rakim's production,is nothing short of being a straight-up hard hitting classic,and get's a 5 mic classic rating from the source mag.i sincerely hope that rakim got the chance to work with nothing but the best/hottest producer's in the game who can make his new album/cd bounce like crazy.i would love to see the production credit's read as such,"dj premier,pharrell of the neptunes,timbaland,r.kelley.dj hi-tech,kanye west,pete rock,just blaze,organized noise,9th wonder,les,large professer,scott stoch,the alchemist,dj jazzy jeff,cruel intentionz,jermaine dupri,lil jon,the heatmakers,havoc.

When people say in the media creative differences it really means that they just didn't like each other. That was just a nice way for the r. To put it so he wouldn't insult dre or nothing like that.

Mayne too bad that aftermath didnt work out...but i was a rakim fan ling before i was a dre fan...and hoping he coomes out with dope record!! rakim-god mc

Yeah dre just wanted everything to be a certain way with rakim, the east and west coast process are just different i guess. Even though it wouldve been dope, rakim needs to be with a label he's more accustomed to

Waiting for rakim,like i'm waiting for my steak! there it is!!!!!! ain't nothing, but premo could do it, 9th wonder fo shure!there it is !!!!

Can someone confirm this i heard dre didnt want primo to produce any of his cuts. I dont think dre and primo ( dj premier) click too much

Dam superraw ra and the alchemist oooh master the possibilities imagine ra flowin over the hold you down beat. But i hear primo, and the neptunes are acouple of people doin beats i dont know who else. Kanye would be sick. The r is by far the sickest ever.

Dam superraw ra and the alchemist oooh master the possibilities imagine ra flowin over the hold you down beat. But i hear primo, and the neptunes are acouple of people doin beats i dont know who else. Kanye would be sick. The r is by far the sickest ever.

Rakim is the dopest. Period. But, i will believe in the album when i see it.

Dre probably tried and treat the god emcee like he was just another mc at the label and truthfully how can you really come at the person who mastered the craft in the genisis stages of the game like he's just another mc? im sure they both feel they have paid momumental dues to the game and need little to no critique from anyone about work or schedules. Just because dre produces "hot" beats doesn't neccesarily mean he would have blessed the god with the correct formula he needed to appeal to the masses like he once did in the mid 80's. Rah needs a producer who's not trying to just make "hot" beats for an emcee to lay 16's to , but someone who can create beats that compliment his style and mixes in that late 80s aura rah had on lock.

Did dre produce "truth hurts addicted w/ rakim"?jus curious, i never thought about it. Ive got 2 tracks dre did w/ rah, the watcher 2 & after i die, both are pretty sick. I think the 2 couldve been like floor seats....great! to bad it didnt click.

Rakim..the r...rakim allah..rah..the 18th letter....god.the most undercelebrated, the most under appreciated, the most underated..but the most respected..the most feared..the most illest...the most godliest emcee of all time...period! rakim dont need nobody..all he needs is a true hip hop producer..someone who can provide an feirce and sometimes rugged audio background to the visual style lyrical delight of storytelling..the tales that this man tells in his rymes are unmatched...he is the frank frazzetta of the hip hop comunity...unblemished..so rah..i'm behind ya bra!!..i met him 2wice..and i mean me and my boy dru had 5 min wit da legendary rakim..i got luv rah...and im straight buyin my album..so go get that sh*t at the stores and dont steal rakims new sh*t!..go buy that at the store..its the fans that care bout" rakim..not money hungry bas-terds.let him get his due..so it doesnt take 10 yrs to hear sum

This message board stinks like nijjerz black trash!!!! the whole world hates nijjerz i'd rather sit next to a guy than sitting next to a stinky ass negro

Peace, i think that rakim should get back with dre and work things out. The fans will love to get that cd. But you know how things go in the music bizz. Signing off peace.

Creative differences blah blah rakim needz 2 be united with primo and other "hardcore" genre, the east coast crunk, producers. He should work with the best of the best period. Rakim's album this time will be sick of course lyrically but his beatz need a monotone sound 2 cater 2 his delivery. Everyone putting rakim the god on beats for emcees with cadence in their deliveries. Rakim is more than an entertainer, rakim is an exceptional werdsmif and i want 2 hear eminem and rakim on a track. The watcher 3. Whew....... Dre is nice for rakim to werk with but not exclusively.

It would have been a platinum piece of work no doubt...but,you can play a beat on a bucket and ra gon kill it at will! so it don't matter who he gets with. ...there are rappers..and then there is rakim!..ok?....point blank!

Ok,o here is the deal, rakim being the supeiror(if that is spelled right) rapper that he is took his talents elsewhere, bottom line!. Now if anyone of you out there were smart enough to remember, it was snoop and dr. Dre who wished to work with rakim(back to the lab............etc. Etc,)so dre happened upon this raper........50 via enimem.....or whatever his name is forgot about the king of rap....rakim!............ Or so as we know it! and did not do not do the lord of rap any justice....if dre had held up his end of the bargin.....the album....oh my god......would have been a monstrastitty!!!!!!!!!!!!!if that is spelled correctly...so there for any of you out the with any doubt....the greatest rapper is........of course....F*ck biggie....r.i.p.,....but it is rakim.....hands down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...just check the lyrics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was 16 when eric b and rakim were played on mr magic's rap attack in the summer of '86 on nyc's wbls. It was check out my melody and erib b. Is president that rocked my brain. Every since that day, i knew (as well as all my whole neighborhood in far rockaway knew) that rakim had serious talent that shined well beyond the big cats of that day(think fresh fest, krush groove and beat street days.....no disrespect). He took hip hop to a new level, where intelligence, creativity, poetry and the streets were combined. Then he soulfully exbounded his spirit once he got hold of a mic and laid his tracks for their albums. Our gift. It was because of rakim, rap music as well as hip hop, we saw that a new wave was created, a new wave of thinkers not just rappers. I have a lot of respect for the brothers and sisters who rocked the mic right back in the day, without them, all of this would not have been possible. We all have enjoyed their cuts at the parties, jams in the park and all, but rakim had given us something new, something we haven't heard before, he had given us something special that wasn't elementary in nature (which is what we were used to....(again no disrespect to forerunners who rocked the mic before him) his thought process and delivery were not like anything we've heard and still no one can strike his position in the game, because they ain't no match quote from: lyrics of fury style ya'll. My children have been introduced to rakim by me via cd's in my car. They all know jay z, nas, lil j

Mannn it's 2007 and this album ain't even out yet,come on godd give us that testamant,we've been waitin for!! rakim allah is my god

Rakim gots his own style and nobody can take it