{"id":293,"date":"2004-03-21T18:18:13","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/03\/rakim_wtf\/"},"modified":"2004-03-21T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T22:18:13","slug":"rakim_wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/21\/rakim_wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakim, WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just watched this clip of Rakim hawking gold teeth for GoldTeethUSA.com<\/a> and I’m stunned and speechless. Really, I have no words to express my feeling for this, but HipHopCommentary sums it up pretty well<\/a>. My people, my people… -sigh-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just watched this clip of Rakim hawking gold teeth for GoldTeethUSA.com and I’m stunned and speechless. Really, I have no words to express my feeling for this, but HipHopCommentary sums it up pretty well. My people, my people… -sigh-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/rakim_dr_dre_split\/","url_meta":{"origin":293,"position":0},"title":"Rakim & Dr. Dre Split","date":"July 17, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I knew this would happen - Rakim Finally Gives Up on Aftermath. The project has been dragging on for too long, and Dre has a history of this. Maybe Rakim just needs to get back with Eric B. It's funny how just a few days ago Rakim was talking about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/23\/22_greatest_mcs\/","url_meta":{"origin":293,"position":1},"title":"22 Greatest MCs","date":"June 23, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone catch MTV's 22 Greatest MC show? The moment they announced number 22 I knew we were gonna have beef. Their list was the result of a public poll, so I have to give a little slack given all the youngsters that likely voted. (Learn your history!) And I do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","img":{"alt_text":"Shop at Amazon.com","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rcm-images.amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/rcm\/468x240.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":488,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/05\/wefunks_podcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":293,"position":2},"title":"WeFunk’s PodCast","date":"November 5, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I just discovered WeFunk's podcast. It's by far the best podcasts I've come across. They're spinning hip-hop, reggae, rare groove, funk, etc. Here's the playlist from the latest episode to give you an idea of what you're in for: intro gene harris - don't call me nigger, whitey talk (over\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":292,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/20\/kool_mo_dees_new_book_ranks_the_50_greatest_mcs\/","url_meta":{"origin":293,"position":3},"title":"Kool Mo Dee’s New Book Ranks the 50 Greatest MCs","date":"March 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Let the greatest MC argument begin anew. Kool Mo Dee was on Tavis Smiley's show last night promoting his new book, There's a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs. It seems that Mo Dee, like many of us, was moved to make his own list after seeing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1550889-10282364","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":76,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/14\/my_favorite_hip-hop_albums\/","url_meta":{"origin":293,"position":4},"title":"My Favorite Hip-Hop Albums","date":"July 14, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been moved to do a few more music posts by some other posts I've seen recently. And also as a continuation of my 22 greatest MCs post. Many of those posts are on the excellent J-Notes blog, which mainly focuses on jazz and R&B (James took me back with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}