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Title: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: OcToExtraordinaire on July 14, 2009, 06:26:38 PM
(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6425/holyareyou.jpg)

Rakim - Holy Are You (http://www.zshare.net/audio/62675035f3bb3549/)

Coming this fall.
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Post by: Invincible on July 14, 2009, 06:34:33 PM
Not bad. Not what I was expecting. Props.
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Post by: The Predator on July 14, 2009, 07:10:25 PM
Harmonious.

Welcome back microphone fiend.

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Post by: HipHopISalive on July 14, 2009, 07:38:41 PM
nice... smooth solid verses by rakim
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: stillinrehab on July 14, 2009, 08:14:00 PM
(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6425/holyareyou.jpg)

Rakim - Holy Are You (http://www.zshare.net/audio/62675035f3bb3549/)

Coming this fall.

Props man... PS when is Fall? I know fuck all about American seasons  ???
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: DTG Entertainment on July 14, 2009, 08:15:29 PM
(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6425/holyareyou.jpg)

Rakim - Holy Are You (http://www.zshare.net/audio/62675035f3bb3549/)

Coming this fall.

Props man... PS when is Fall? I know fuck all about American seasons  ???

August - November.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: blunts40sbitches on July 14, 2009, 09:05:17 PM
yo that beat is crack, who produced this??
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Dogg Ly Dogg on July 15, 2009, 12:47:44 AM
Good song, cant wait for the return of the Master
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: RingMan on July 15, 2009, 12:59:23 AM
fuckin dope song, good to hear some new Rakim again
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Matty on July 15, 2009, 01:21:28 AM
dope :o

beat is crack too!
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: 50 on July 15, 2009, 01:54:12 AM
sounds good! props
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Post by: NDub on July 15, 2009, 03:54:20 AM
King back on a mic !!
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Post by: Meho on July 15, 2009, 04:04:18 AM
Damn this is fire. Looking forward to the album  8)
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Post by: KaiserSoze on July 15, 2009, 05:21:15 AM
RAKIM !!!  8)
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Post by: Rebel on July 15, 2009, 06:30:13 AM
Major props for this
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Post by: rakim on July 15, 2009, 08:54:24 AM
I've been waiting on this album for 10 years now and if this joint is any indication of how good the Seventh Seal will be....this will be the greatest hip hop album of all time by the greatest rap artist of all time! Rakim's skill level is so far better than any rapper....dead or alive and he will finally show the world how poluted this rap music has been with the release of this masterpiece. Holy are you has already proved that! This song is FIRE!!!!! This has made my day!
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Post by: dubsmith_nz on July 15, 2009, 02:02:19 PM
Crack, Beats something I wasn't expecting but Rakim. Not in a bad way though, good to see he's moving with the times but sticking to his roots
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Post by: Jaydc555 on July 15, 2009, 02:07:43 PM
Pretty good.We shall see how the album comes.Because I remembers hearing when I be on the mic and being amped for the master and that album was ass
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Post by: Triple OG Rapsodie on July 15, 2009, 02:14:23 PM
beat is eh....i mean its alright but we waited 10 years for this?
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Jaydc555 on July 15, 2009, 02:18:14 PM
That's the problem when you wait so long for an album.God I hate to see how critical people are going to be of crook when he drops an album.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: dubsmith_nz on July 15, 2009, 04:25:26 PM
That's the problem when you wait so long for an album.God I hate to see how critical people are going to be of crook when he drops an album.

Lol it'll never live up to expectations, critically or commercially, and that's not taking anything away from Crook. I think releasing EP's though is giving him an advantage cos its letting people kinda let their steam off a bit expectation wise as he's feeding them something
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Post by: Jaydc555 on July 15, 2009, 04:28:27 PM
Same with detox.Anything short of the album being played and taking girls hymens people are going to say its not that great
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Triple OG Rapsodie on July 15, 2009, 05:03:19 PM
true but its pretty much Dre's fault the expectations are so high. He's spent so much time on, supposedly to perfect it. So people are expecting perfection.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: thisoneguy360 on July 15, 2009, 05:44:01 PM
Hip hop needs Rakim
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: you gon always be my latin queen bitch on July 15, 2009, 06:02:37 PM
thats waz up
yeah this is dope, but hes obivously done better especially off them newer traxx that leaked
"WORD ON THE STREETS" is str8 crack muzik
and if his album sounds like that, it very well might be better than "illmatic" who many seem to think isnt possible lol
damn this is some dope muzik right here
he used the same delivery that he used on word on the streets and that flow is crazy
looks like his album could be crazy

dj kid capri produced a banger


I've been waiting on this album for 10 years now and if this joint is any indication of how good the Seventh Seal will be....this will be the greatest hip hop album of all time by the greatest rap artist of all time! Rakim's skill level is so far better than any rapper....dead or alive and he will finally show the world how poluted this rap music has been with the release of this masterpiece. Holy are you has already proved that! This song is FIRE!!!!! This has made my day!
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Action! on July 15, 2009, 06:50:21 PM
Quote


For those that find it hard to believe, and it is
why they call me GOD MC, the lyricist
trace this style to the roots of Genesis
the world wonder of still standing like pyramids
design so vivid, every brick got a story to tell
my rhyme flow different like a hieroglyphic
mind prolific, infinite like mathematics
the first language, now add that and add graphics (go ahead!)
people let the blocks know it's the gospel
life's no manual so watch close
the new Michelangelo or Pablo Picasso
who dared to show you the cosmos and ride flows
either my lyrical, metaphysical
what this will do is help you get to your spiritual pinnacle
you find your mind too far fetched for it to fathom
I bring the darkness to the light, split the atom
It's like watching the big bang theory emerge
I take title, born into billion of verbs
They want a clear view from the farthest and darkest corners of the universe to a corner near you
I'm battling ghetto apparel, stay blinged up
Fort Knox display, a modern day King Tut
wrapped tight, rap like I've been preserved with time
Spit the holy water, touch it, and turn it into wine
It's the GOD

Holy are you
Holy are you
There is no god but you
I am the alpha and the omega

We were children of the most high so we fell
from paradise and holy hell
private descendants of the holy grail
another part of history they won't reveal
times will only tell
we waiting for judgment that came in the form of a thug in the game to create his composition
it's blood in my vein
the chemical is identical, we one of the same
with 7 letters in all 3 of my government names
walk on water? naw leave it to Jesus
it's appearable to make followers and readers to believers
from Egypt to Budapest Rakim is the truest left
understand his scriptures like the Minister Lewis F.
I told you but you ignore me like most the prophets
like Jesus, Solomon, Abraham, Moses and Mohammad
I sold the scholar to fulfill the broken promise
I spit so smooth to predict the future like Nostradamus
like Revelations I'm hoping my cross will reveal the 7 spirits of god when I open the seal
interpret the holy Qur'an, ease flow to guide, translate to Allah
and decode the bible
the eldest in the Mars, Masons, and Allahs
7 churches of synagogue, it's the Renaissance
like the messiah Rakim Allah is about to reveal a bigger secret then time or god

The second half of the second verse is hard for my ears
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Laconic on July 15, 2009, 08:48:32 PM
Love this!!
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96' on July 15, 2009, 09:45:15 PM
That excerpt is from a popular African American Islamic Imam named Siraj Wahaj.  Also that, "No God But Allah" repeated in the hook is the Islamic creed, but of course Rakim flipped it quite a bit since he's a 5 Percenter.

Still extremely dope track.  Probably the best new hip-hop song I've heard in quite a while.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Nooc210 on July 15, 2009, 10:05:36 PM
 :o Major-Props OcTo!

who produced this?  ???

THX!!  8)
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: jeanmiche777 on July 15, 2009, 10:09:08 PM
Who produced that beat???? Pure crack.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: EML on July 15, 2009, 10:19:17 PM
Man this is good Seventh Seal is going to be fire.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Nooc210 on July 15, 2009, 10:32:56 PM
Quote


For those that find it hard to believe, and it is
why they call me GOD MC, the lyricist
trace this style to the roots of Genesis
the world wonder of still standing like pyramids
design so vivid, every brick got a story to tell
my rhyme flow different like a hieroglyphic
mind prolific, infinite like mathematics
the first language, now add that and add graphics (go ahead!)
people let the blocks know it's the gospel
life's no manual so watch close
the new Michelangelo or Pablo Picasso
who dared to show you the cosmos and ride flows
either my lyrical, metaphysical
what this will do is help you get to your spiritual pinnacle
you find your mind too far fetched for it to fathom
I bring the darkness to the light, split the atom
It's like watching the big bang theory emerge
I take title, born into billion of verbs
They want a clear view from the farthest and darkest corners of the universe to a corner near you
I'm battling ghetto apparel, stay blinged up
Fort Knox display, a modern day King Tut
wrapped tight, rap like I've been preserved with time
Spit the holy water, touch it, and turn it into wine
It's the GOD

Holy are you
Holy are you
There is no god but you
I am the alpha and the omega

We were children of the most high so we fell
from paradise and holy hell
private descendants of the holy grail
another part of history they won't reveal
times will only tell
we waiting for judgment that came in the form of a thug in the game to create his composition
it's blood in my vein
the chemical is identical, we one of the same
with 7 letters in all 3 of my government names
walk on water? naw leave it to Jesus
it's appearable to make followers and readers to believers
from Egypt to Budapest Rakim is the truest left
understand his scriptures like the Minister Lewis F.
I told you but you ignore me like most the prophets
like Jesus, Solomon, Abraham, Moses and Mohammad
I sold the scholar to fulfill the broken promise
I spit so smooth to predict the future like Nostradamus
like Revelations I'm hoping my cross will reveal the 7 spirits of god when I open the seal
interpret the holy Qur'an, ease flow to guide, translate to Allah
and decode the bible
the eldest in the Mars, Masons, and Allahs
7 churches of synagogue, it's the Renaissance
like the messiah Rakim Allah is about to reveal a bigger secret then time or god

The second half of the second verse is hard for my ears

 ;D 8) 8)

thanks for providing your own personal transcription. I'm really feelin' this track!! fucking jimmy iovine... Dre's Rakim album would've been on some instant classic status. although I really dug all his Aftermath tracks anyway.

this song gave me the same powerful & enlightening feeling I got when I first heard Canibus's OG 'Channel Zero' anyone else get that too?
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Post by: RingMan on July 16, 2009, 01:22:06 AM
dj kid capri produced a banger
some websites says the same
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Post by: OcToExtraordinaire on July 16, 2009, 02:55:54 AM
Produced by Nick Wiz for Preserve the Art.
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Post by: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on July 16, 2009, 02:59:27 AM
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: jeanmiche777 on July 16, 2009, 09:25:18 PM
Produced by Nick Wiz for Preserve the Art.

I don't know him, but he got talent for sure.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Booz on July 16, 2009, 09:33:34 PM
Produced by Nick Wiz for Preserve the Art.

I don't know him, but he got talent for sure.
Another one produced by him:
https://www.youtube.com/v/L8pE5FOHyWE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8pE5FOHyWE)

I wonder if those 3 other "new" joints from that live album was produced by Nick Wiz also.
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Post by: David Gutterman on July 17, 2009, 07:08:27 AM
O MY GOD! .. ... wow, fire!
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Post by: you gon always be my latin queen bitch on July 17, 2009, 11:09:34 AM
str8 bangin
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Post by: eazye on July 17, 2009, 12:25:01 PM
Nick Wiz is so underappreciated as a producer, it ain't real!He's made lots of dope ass beats.

his shit to me sounds like a mix between Buckwild and Pete Rock

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Post by: T-Dogg on July 17, 2009, 02:02:52 PM
Damn, this shit is sounding nice... Lookin' forward to hearing some more from Ra. 8)

true but its pretty much Dre's fault the expectations are so high. He's spent so much time on, supposedly to perfect it. So people are expecting perfection.

I think it's mostly the media's fault, actually. There's constantly been articles and interviews where Detox is mentioned, hyped up and commented on - and I'd bet that less than 1 % of all the quotes on Detox have actually come from Dre.
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Post by: Action! on July 18, 2009, 05:29:48 PM
Yeah, I agree Dre said it a couple times on big albums - Documentary "Watch out for Detox" and then Em said shit on the end of Encore "and, oh yeah, Detox is coming. we going to make Dre do it."

Dre's been relatively quite about Detox for the past 6 or so years.
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Post by: TRG on July 18, 2009, 06:16:42 PM
Instrumental (http://limelinx.com/files/33c403e54fae00201ebed748fcdc39bc)
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Post by: PLANT on July 18, 2009, 07:07:27 PM
sick tune for sure!!  8)
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on July 18, 2009, 10:46:06 PM
Produced by Nick Wiz for Preserve the Art.

I don't know him, but he got talent for sure.
Another one produced by him:
https://www.youtube.com/v/L8pE5FOHyWE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8pE5FOHyWE)

I wonder if those 3 other "new" joints from that live album was produced by Nick Wiz also.


Yes they were.
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Post by: The Predator on July 19, 2009, 03:31:55 AM
Instrumental (http://limelinx.com/files/33c403e54fae00201ebed748fcdc39bc)

 :bandit:
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on August 04, 2009, 03:37:13 PM
Get the fuck back in here bums.  This joint is real.  This is focused..  This is what a banger should sound like.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: you gon always be my latin queen bitch on August 04, 2009, 04:51:48 PM
yeah this is dope, but damn rakim hurry the fuck up wit that fuckin album..........decades later lol




Get the fuck back in here bums.  This joint is real.  This is focused..  This is what a banger should sound like.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Action! on August 05, 2009, 10:50:11 AM
I love this track but some of the bars and the concept remind me a Jay Electronica track,

Quote
While you was blowing X amount of dollars on a bracelet,
the sovereign nation of France was opening their files on UFO phenomenal - i.e spaceships.
This just the facts, jack, might as well face it.
Every rhyme I write will still get cracked in the chapter of revelations;
an atom get cracked in the blackness of meditation.
Mysterious shit, call me Jay dough don, I'm on some serious shit.
Scholars wonder why don't he bust
Allah blessed me with a Midas touch.
Everything I touch turn to Ethopian gold - shiny and bluff.
I got a firm understanding on the minus and plus.
So I ain't got time to argue with a rapper about how he ain't got rhymes that's fucking with mines.
I'm trying to kill Lucifer so if I have to break cause a rapper in my face telling me that he the great
You can bet a shiny nickel I blast his mutherufckin' ass way past Jupiter.
You couldn't be stupider fucking with the nuclear Mayan, Aztec lion,
Asiatic black man from Zion.  Catch a quad supreme letting off steam; Dimethyltriptamine make a man dream
Buy ya'll would much rather hear me rapping about trash - the size of Erikyah's ass, blunts and cash.
We need saving.  Minds are consumed with swine.  We need daily.
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Post by: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on August 05, 2009, 02:48:01 PM
^^ Love that type of writing!
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Post by: Roccy on August 05, 2009, 02:59:17 PM
this is fucking shit..rakim is blowin shit up again.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Action! on August 05, 2009, 04:00:10 PM
^^ Love that type of writing!

Do you see the similarities?  Is it just me?
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on August 06, 2009, 03:42:28 AM
^^ Love that type of writing!

Do you see the similarities?  Is it just me?

Nah, I see dudes dropping knowledge..  Gotta love it!
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: teecee on August 06, 2009, 09:05:31 AM
 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on September 07, 2009, 12:21:43 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Rakim_-_The_Seventh_Seal.jpg/652px-Rakim_-_The_Seventh_Seal.jpg)

just to bump thread u bishes,
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Nooc210 on October 09, 2009, 10:50:05 AM
can't wait!!  ;D 8)  :o

(http://nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/rakim-the-seventh-seal.jpg)

http://www.aftermathmusic.com/blog/?p=700 (http://www.aftermathmusic.com/blog/?p=700)
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Episcop Cruel Cvrle on October 10, 2009, 04:13:28 AM
OMG  :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o, hip hop is great.
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Episcop Cruel Cvrle on October 10, 2009, 04:22:16 AM
Instrumental (http://limelinx.com/files/33c403e54fae00201ebed748fcdc39bc)

propz as allways +1 ;D
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: Episcop Cruel Cvrle on October 14, 2009, 11:33:32 AM
dont sleep...what a song damn, flow is great
Title: Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
Post by: you gon always be my latin queen bitch on October 16, 2009, 10:59:29 AM
its still death of a nation to think eminem is better than rakim...in what way? lol
but yeah this is dope but the streets song might be maybe
both are mad dope