Rakim concert

[Hiphopdane]

Yesterday I read he is going to perform in Copenhagen next month for the first time ever in my country, and I really wanna go although it's going to be quite expensive due to bridge taxes (Denmark is a bunch of islands more or less). Kanye West has a show here in August but Rakim is something special to me. He is the God of hip hop.

Has anyone ever seen him perform live? I doubt he is going to disappoint but I'm just excited as fuck and wanna hear if anyone has something to share haha.

[GladHeAteHerr]

Never been to one but I would love to..

[stillmatic]

Yeah I've seen him a few times, the last time being August at the Highroom Ballroom.

He'll come out to 'Holy are you' and has a lot of interaction with his audience. He'll tell a lot of stories. He'll speak a lot about the state of hip hop and get a few cats from the audience to come up on stage and freestyle.

One of the favourite concerts I went to was a Dead Prez concert in 2005 in NYC when they had Rakim, Chuck D and Trugoy from De la Soul and DJ Capri come out and perform together. The performed a few of their own tracks then performed 'Hate it or love it', starting from 50's verse "my favourite rapper used to sing ch-che-check out my melody"...they killed it. I even got to hang with stic man and m1 that night and had the best hip hop talk I've ever had with anybody for hours.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

Yeah I've seen him a few times, the last time being August at the Highroom Ballroom.

He'll come out to 'Holy are you' and has a lot of interaction with his audience. He'll tell a lot of stories. He'll speak a lot about the state of hip hop and get a few cats from the audience to come up on stage and freestyle.

One of the favourite concerts I went to was a Dead Prez concert in 2005 in NYC when they had Rakim, Chuck D and Trugoy from De la Soul and DJ Capri come out and perform together. The performed a few of their own tracks then performed 'Hate it or love it', starting from 50's verse "my favourite rapper used to sing ch-che-check out my melody"...they killed it. I even got to hang with stic man and m1 that night and had the best hip hop talk I've ever had with anybody for hours.

Thats fucking dope

Rakim a pioneer nobody should miss his concerts.

[Hiphopdane]

It would be great to hear him tell a few stories and let the audience know his opinion on todays hip hop. He doesn't give many interviews so that would be a cool bonus.

Lucky bastard! Did they just bring you backstage or something? I remember you told a while back that you've met Immortal Technique too.

[stillmatic]

The first thing you'll notice is that Ra looks really old, I love the dude but man he hasn't aged well. But his show will be enthusiastic as fuck, there will be a lot of DJ interplay and scratching that might annoy some people, but the show has a extremely old school feel to it with DJ cuts and such.

I didn't meet Rakim, just stic.man and m1 because one of my the peoples I was with was cool with m1 and had hung out with a lot because they were both from Sunset Park in Brooklyn so they let us in backstage. We just hung out there for about 3-4 hours, and straight up those two were two of the coolest motherfuckers I've ever met, they opened my eyes to so many things about hip hop that I never would have paid attention to. People like Dead Prez are why I get shit in my panties when people talk shit about political rappers, they think these motherfuckers are pretentious etc., no, if everyone was lucky enough to know people like them, Technique and such, you'd understand these guys live it, breathe it, and write shit like that with the best intentions, to better shit for others.

Yeah I've met Technique, but he's just normally like that. Like he's in the streets, at protests, lectures, and all that shit a lot. He's very approachable. Whereas Dead Prez aren't really seen that often.

[Hiphopdane]

Well, he is 45 now so you never know when he is going to retire. It might be the only chance I'll ever get to see him live. I would love if they made it some "old school" show with scratching and all that. That would be like a hip hop journey for me.

Hip hop has always been political. It's often the voice of the minorities and underdogs in the societies around the world. Of course somebody writes rebellious political songs to make a name for themselves but it doesn't happen that often so I don't see where people are coming are coming from when they criticize political rappers.