{"id":138175,"date":"2019-07-01T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=138175"},"modified":"2019-07-04T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T07:38:20","slug":"rakim-interview-for-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/rakim-interview-for-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakim Interview for ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzRq3LZ7LuU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview for <strong>ESPN<\/strong> microphone fiend <strong>Rakim<\/strong> explained what line or lyric exemplifies who he is. The MC pointed to the opening eight bars of 1997\u2019s <em>The 18th Letter<\/em> LP. Salute to the GOD MC.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame \/ I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains \u2019til things change \/ They strain to sling slang, I\u2019m trained to bring game \/ History that I arranged been regained by King James \/ Go to practice, with tactics, when the track hits, theatrics \/ Women that look like actress the status of Cleopatra\u2019s \/ Stacks of mathematics to feed yo\u2019 Asiatics \/ As I find out, what the facts is, for geographic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"138185\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/rakim-interview-for-espn\/5347549-8200177998-rakim\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5347549-8200177998-RAKIM.jpg?fit=1000%2C666&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,666\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5347549-8200177998-RAKIM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5347549-8200177998-RAKIM.jpg?fit=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5347549-8200177998-RAKIM.jpg?fit=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5347549-8200177998-RAKIM.jpg?fit=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5347549-8200177998-RAKIM.jpg?resize=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5347549-8200177998-RAKIM.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5347549-8200177998-RAKIM.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/ambrosiaforheads.com\/2019\/06\/rakim-favorite-verse-video\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFH<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview for ESPN microphone fiend Rakim explained what line or lyric exemplifies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-zWD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}