issues, the issues being poverty, the issues being not having political power. you see what i m saying? all of these issues, they should be addressing this with their energy. planet earth it was my place of birth sole controller of the universe rakim is the god emcee. he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hip-hop. he came to the world like a poet. hard on the boulevard i never get scarred i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. not just the regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, doo-doom, doo-doom. be all i could be and more see all there is to see before what i m trying to do, i m trying to set an example for the little kids, you know what i m saying got to teach the babies, know what i m saying, try to lead them in the right path. the summer of 1987, rebel without a pause comes out. it was a call to arms, it was
pop hip-hop group. it was straight hip-hop. beastie boys was dope, if you know what i mean. brass monkey junkie that funky monkey licensed to ill really spread like wildfire and introduced a lot of people to hip-hop culture. can you give us some definitions of the lls in your name? ll stands for ladies love for long and lean lover of ladies last of the red hot lovers looking for a little. just a lot of ls. the guys only be talking about yourself. how much of a lover, how the women love him to death, how they can throw down, how good they can dance. how bad they are. nobody better not mess with me and all of that kind of foolishness. if they were to address the issues, the issues being poverty, the issues being not having political power. you see what i m saying? all of these issues, they should be addressing this with their energy. planet earth it was my place of birth rakim is the god emcee. he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hip-hop.
rakim is the god mc. he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hip-hop. he came to the world like a poet. times is hard on the boulevard i never get scarred i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style. you know, not just a regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, doo-doom, doo-doom. be all i could be and more see all there is to see before what i m trying to do, i m trying to set an example for the little kids, you know what i m saying. got to teach the babies, know what i m saying, try to lead them in the right path. the summer of 1987, rebel without a pause comes out. it was a call to arms, it was the sound of anger, it was the sound of something boiling under. public enemy literally said that we want to be music s worst nightmare. public enemy s extreme politics has meant almost no radio air play, even on black stations. it s rap for a reason. they
he single-handedly propelled obama to office. i think he s right. but the frustration i think, let s just say hillary clinton or john kerry or senator schultz were to jump in, senator brown order were to jump in. they d have a very difficult time. difficult time raising money, having staff, having organization. while it would be an annoyance, i don t think someone s position would be compromised. if someone s position was compromised by it, then that s the will of the voters. there s a difference between jumping in late because you re really not offending the applecart. if you do up in the applecart, then it s the will of the vote voters. if you say i m going to run. sometimes people get out of the way, they clear the field. there is nothing of that. dana: limburg said let me ask you questions since you re being so candid with us. who do you think in the current
he is not that the republicans used to believe in. he single-handedly runs the entire right in terms of elected politics. and you ve got the democrats still sort of managing different constituents like a small d democrats. i think part of it is that the president is on the executive branches, he is clearly the leader of the party. nancy pelosi does have a lot of different i will give jake the credit to or the credit to nancy pelosi she deserves which is her job is to keep control of the house of representatives. she is focused in a very, very specific way on about 40 members of congress and making sure she doesn t do anything to make their lives more difficult. i m sure she didn t want to do anything that slows that wave. she s cautious in a way that i think democrats should appreciate in the sense that she gets what the difference between a majority and having a one-vote minority is. and so she tried to be careful. so i think, look, the reality of