Yinny
Sweet and Sour Patch Mom
Lol this is adorable
Father of the Funk George Clinton reciting Rakim lyrics is mind blowing content
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ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
How did Ra hook up with the south?
DaveyDave
Superstar
probably some kind of connection within Universal Records. in 96/97 Suave House was distributed by Universal and 18th Letter came out on Universal. Back then there wouldn't have been THAT many A&Rs and people who fukked with Hip Hop in a real way so they prob knew each other or some other label head said "hey why don't you do something with this guy, you both do that rap stuff" or possibly a link through Premo? He is from Houston after all
ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
Ra from the H?
DaveyDave
Superstar
No, Premo is
showing how we gonna be in our 80s spittin our favorite BARZ
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
That was produced by T-Mix (in house producer at suave at the time) Suave was under Universal and making some noise so being label mates was the connection. I doubt it was an actual collab where cats reached out. I just assumed Universal mandated that for the album since the South was on the rise. All they did was cut and paste Ra's vocals onto a T-Mix track, came out dope though.
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
Never would've thought he was 80 if y'all didn't mention it. Chilling in the backyard with the homie and reciting legendary lyrics, living beautifully. Father of the Funk won at life 
DaveyDave
Superstar
That's what I meant by a label head just saying "you do that rap stuff, you should do something with this Rakim guy" it just ended up being dope because T Mix is a dope producer.
Dope to see this...
But whats doper is George defied the odds. Dude did every drug imaginable, lost his catalogue..won it back
and actually looks great for his age. He living really good. Talking bout blessed. My gawd
But whats doper is George defied the odds. Dude did every drug imaginable, lost his catalogue..won it back
and actually looks great for his age. He living really good. Talking bout blessed. My gawd
pawdalaw
Superstar
Thank you! Folks like to argue for the sake of it. The fact that Clinton knows the lyrics speaks more about him being a fan.
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
Follow is one of a lyricist go to when pulling from Ra's catalog. When a legend like DMX was quoting Ra's stuff it was still
but not that surprising given X's pedigree. But for Goerge who is from a totally different branch of music and probably damn near 30 years Ra's senior to quote line for line is almost absurd Except for when we're talking about the Goat, then nothing is absurd or far fetched in regards to impact
The legend doesn’t look 80 at all. Black don’t crack
