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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #15 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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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #16 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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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #17 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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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2009, 02:14:23 PM »
beat is eh....i mean its alright but we waited 10 years for this?
 

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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #19 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.
 

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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #20 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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« Reply #21 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
 

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« Reply #22 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.
 

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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2009, 05:44:01 PM »
Hip hop needs Rakim
 

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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #24 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!
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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #25 on: July 15, 2009, 06:50:21 PM »
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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
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Cool breeze; I'm hopping out of new Beams
My outfit ran me a few G's but none of that will matter if you leave
I used to be an Adam with two Eves and shawtys automatically do me
Excuse me, all that happened before you doesn't matter
I'm a vision of the future climbing the success ladder
Recline, in the mean time, twenty three shine, diamond bling blind as I rewind
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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #26 on: July 15, 2009, 08:48:32 PM »
Love this!!

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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #27 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.
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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2009, 10:05:36 PM »
 :o Major-Props OcTo!

who produced this?  ???

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Re: Rakim - Holy Are You (Off The Seventh Seal)
« Reply #29 on: July 15, 2009, 10:09:08 PM »
Who produced that beat???? Pure crack.