Rakim Posters and Art Prints
Description: Pay homage to the legendary MC Rakim with this vibrant design featuring Egyptian-inspired hieroglyphics, a golden microphone, and graffiti-style elements.
Rakim: Microphone Fiend Droppin' Science Since '86 Posters and Art
by RetroRay
$10 $14
Description: Rakim is considered a transformative figure in hip-hop. He helped to pioneer the use of internal rhymes and multisyllabic rhymes, and was among the first to demonstrate the possibilities of sitting down to write intricately crafted lyrics packed with clever word choices and metaphors rather than the more improvisational styles and simpler rhyme patterns that predominated before him. Rakim is also credited with creating the overall shift from the more simplistic old school flows to more complex flows. Rapper Kool Moe Dee explained: "Rakim is basically the inventor of flow. We were not even using the word flow until Rakim came along. It was called rhyming, it was called cadence, but it wasn't called flow. Rakim created flow!"
