Rakim has been doing the press rounds in support of his new book Sweat The Technique: Revelations On Creativity From The Lyrical Genius.
During a recent interview with Shade 45, host Lord Sear asked the God MC if it was true MC Serch once wrote lyrics for him. Rakim was noticeably offended and hurled some fighting words toward the 3rd Bass luminary.
“He said he wrote something for me?” Rakim says. “Yeah, I don’t even know if it got to me. Oh shit. No disrespect to my man Serch, but I’ll knock my man the fuck out if he trying to say he wrote something or I needed some help. Don’t throw some bullshit in the game 40 years later, man.
“Serch, I love you man, but I will knock you the fuck out for fucking up my legacy. Don’t do that. But never.”
Serch caught wind of the interview and headed to Instagram to clarify the situation with two separate videos — one before he talked to Sear and one after.
“So somebody just showed me the Lord Sear/Rakim interview,” Serch begins. “Let’s get it real straight, real fast. Lyor Cohen, my manager at the time, asked me to write a rhyme for Eric B. and Rakim for the Follow The Leader album. I wrote ‘Steppin’ To The A.M.’ Rakim had no idea I was writing a rhyme. Eric B. had no idea I was writing a rhyme. The only person that knew was Lyor Cohen.
“As soon as Eric heard the first … he didn’t even hear the title and he hung up on me and then called Lyor and screamed on him for four hours. Lord Sear, for you to tell fuckin’ Rakim that I wrote a rhyme for him — yo, fuck you Sear. Trying to get fuckin’, some little fuckin’ shine for your bullshit ass show. I’m so fuckin’ mad at you right now. You’re my fuckin’ man. You could’ve called me and asked me what the fuckin’ deal was … Rakim didn’t know. Nobody knew. Yo, fuck you, man. That’s bullshit.”
In the caption, Serch wrote, “@rakimgodmc hear FACTS WITH RECEIPTS. IF I DONT GET A RETRACTION FROM @shade45 SHIT IS GOING TO GET REAL. NO INE THROWS MY NAME IN THE DIRT. NOT OVER MY NUMBER 1 EMCEE OF ALL TIME. FUCK THAT.”
With the second video, Serch revealed he’d had a conversation with Sear and agreed to do his show on Tuesday (October 1) to clear the air. In the process, he offered an apology to Rakim for the apparent misunderstanding.
“Please listen Tuesday to @shade45 @siriusxm and I will tell y’all the real,” he wrote. “I will be on with @lord_sear to clarify. I am sorry that @thegodrakim @rakimgodmc @officialrakimallah heard what was not accurate. I hope he listens on Tuesday.”
If it makes Serch fell better nobody who has ever both Search and Rakim could possibly believe Serch wrote Rakim a rhyme. That’s like saying I taught Jordan how to dunk cause I can dribble
But he did write a track for them.
Come on man, serch is an elite lyricist, and not every rakim bar is unimpeachable. Ppl elevate R and that’s fine, but to say serch wasn’t good in his own right is just plain stupid.
There is a GREAT DIVIDE between being able to rhyme on a beat and being a Brilliant Lyricist and Griot and even then there is the Rakim God MC level above that. You can hate on that man’s status, but it doesn’t change the facts.
Serch is not white.
No he just looks that way for no reason right?
Go to his Wikpedia page and read “Early life and education”, the very last sentence of that chapter. What does it say?
Yes, Search is a Caucasian.
So Rakim has writers too? Guess he’s no longer the God MC now. But y’all old real hip hop heads will completely ignore this and will still hate on Drake for having writers. Double standard ass bitches.
Search just said he never wrote for him what are you talking about
Are you blind? Read the article again. “I wrote Steppin in the AM” Those words came out of Serch’s mouth, your “God MC” has writers. Stay in denial. You probably like fake drug dealer Pusha T too.
Steppin in the AM is a 3rd Bass song. Not a Rakim song dude. Serch was a member of 3rd Bass w/Pete Nice and DJ Daddy Rich
Drake aint shit
You are just as stupid as your generation is. If you listened you woould know MC Serch denied this nonsense. Buy you’re a Drake groupy. Gay ass dudes trying to act triggered and all that.
HAAAAAAA! Your FUCKEN RETARTED! Represent? Represent WHAT? You are soooo out of the loop
The funny thing about this thread, right here, is that this is a perfect example of a kid buttin’ in on an adult conversation
LOL
“Rakim Allah”….??? That’s disrespectful, there’s only one god. You stupid kuffar with your Nation of Islam and 5% nonsense are a joke to real Muslims. Enjoy burning in hell forever.
There only one Easter Bunny but he doesn’t believe in hell.
Let’s be honest here If this Rakim fella was white he would be called antis.emitic for attacking Serch like this. But since he black now you got this Serch fella backtracking and apologizing instead. What a weird world we live in. It all depends on the ethn.icity of people the reaction we get.
All this shit, INCLUDING YOUR POST does is prove Lord Jamar about Caucasians in Hip Hop!
All this shit, INCLUDING YOUR POST does is prove Lord Jamar RIGHT about Caucasians in Hip Hop!
Serch is the man & Rakim is too. Fuck your bullshit ass show.
Search ain’t the fuckin man… he’s a bitch ass for even accepting the request to even attempt to write for Rakim and that shit is MADD DISRESPECTFUL! He needs to stop telling that fuckin story trying to insert himself into Rakim;s legacy somehow. Especially since that shit has a tendacy to get all screwed up overtime.
lol, as if Rakim would need help from serch haha
Rakim is the most fucking overrated piece of mediocrity in Hip Hop, when has he ever showed any form of diversity as an MC, never.
Also “God MCs” don’t act like fucking divas all the time, and they 100% DO NOT DUCK BATTLES!!!
Just go ask real versatile MCs like LL Cool J, KRS One, Ice Cube all 100% proven more versatile than Rakim who kept his mouth shut for 30 years about “Summertime” so he could steal from Will Smiths legacy.
Tell us Mr God MC if you’re such a “God MC” why did you not respond to Tech N9ne after he smoked you on his “Blown away” track from “Sickology 101” and expose do you for the fucking diva you are.
You tarnished your own damn legacy by ducking legitimate challengers, your whole career.
Yo what the fuck is saying rakim never ran from anyone cause no one was fucking stupid enough to even challenge him, yea they can act like they want smoke but it defitnately would problems. And if you haven’t mention kane or Kool g rap in that discussion of battling the god, don’t ever put anyone else against sit your not what rap us ass down and shut the fuck up
Me Carter I literally just named the diss track he ducked and ran from, it’s right there, he’s dissed BY NAME not some open to interpretation subliminal shit, he is directly dissed on a major diss track by a major lyricist in Hip Hop and he fucking ducked.
LL Cool J never would’ve ducked.
KRS One never would’ve ducked.
Ice Cube never would’ve ducked.
You bitches are quick with the insults but couldn’t come up with a single argument to counter what I said. FOH!!!
What are you doing, known for and how many battles have you won?
I won over 100 when I was battling the same circuits as cats like Eyedea.
I never ducked once, MCs don’t duck.
Also wtf does my background have to do with Rakim ducking Tech N9ne? I’m not running around calling myself the fucking “God MC” while being to afraid to prove it, that’s all Rakim has done for 20 fucking years.
Time to show and prove or stop calling yourself the God MC. LL calls himself the G.O.A.T and he fucking steps up to defend his claim when it’s challenged. Rakim hides.
You got a PhD
Playa hating dick head
Rakim is the God without him we wouldn’t have these lyricists we got from Nas to Jay to Em to Tech.
Its your opinion…. Trash a man huh? Ok, you must be doing well for yourself to be trashing another man…
ICE CUBE??? … Mr. Get-In-Where-You-Fit-In??? He is not versatile, he ‘s just pandering …
THIS LITTLE BIRDSHIT STUNT WILL NOT RUIN YOUR LEGACY RAKIM, GOD MC YOU STR8. LET THESE GARBAGE MEN DEAL WITH THE TRASH.
In all fairness, when Serch told the story on VladTV, he told it the exact same way he just did on the gram. This is a case of Lord Sear playing a bad game of telephone, probably on purpose.
This. Not only on VladTV, but Serch has also told the same story on Sway in the Morning, which is on the same damn SiriusXM station Sear’s show is on. Sear should’ve known better, or done two seconds worth of research – both interviews are on YouTube.
Agree …. As many times as of I heard Serch tell this story, I never got the assumption that Rakim was in on it nor knew about ….
Dude, Rakim is like 5 foot 6 inches tall. LOL. I would say, “Hey, I’m a fan Rakim. What happened happened. Don’t get knocked out over this shit.” I would drop a pin with my location and tell him to do the same. I would pull up alone, and choke my hero the fuck out. Rakim ain’t knocking shit out. Both these dudes are 50+.
Obviously, you never grew up in the hood, or grew up fighting. Six don’t mean shit homeboy. I’ve seen 5’6 guys (and akinny) knock big swole guys out! It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the heart in the dog!
Lmao, Rakim weighs about a 100 pounds wet and ain’t no mma fighter either. He ain’t beating nobody’s ass lol
Obviously? LOL. I’m a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. 1 pro MMA fight, 6 amateur. I live in Inglewood California, little kid. I don’t know anything about fighting, or “the hood?” LOL. Shut your bitch ass, white Nebraska nerd lips. Grown men are talking here. Cosplay poo butt. LOL. You’ve seen dudes in the hood who would get taken down and choked out cold in under a minute by a blue belt. Bitch. I obviously don’t know anything about fighting. Hahahahahaha.
Stop it bro..White Nebraska Nerd lips?Cosplay pooh butt?If that doesnt scream dweeb who types on his phone furiously I dont know what does.Only thing MMA about you is the PPV’s you pay for..lol..
Stop it bro? LOL. My shit is on YouTube, geek. Not allowed to post links here. You are a bitch. Guaranteed. The only one posting anything angrily is you. Your mom should have swallowed you.
Sure. That’s why featherweights in MMA and boxing fight heavyweights. It’s the size of the heart. LOL. You ARE retarded. Congrats.
Actually in the beginning they let small guy`s fight the bigger guys in mma, because they didn`t have weightclasses. Alot of times the smaller guy won also..
You Mena before anyone new Jiu-Jitsu dummy? No one knew what guard was. Royce won 3 UFC’s then never fought anyone outside of his weight class again, except for some carnie type matches in Japan. You’re saying Rakim has Royce Gracie’s skills? Hahahahaha. You realize that shit was in the EARLY 90’s, right? What a nonsensical comment.
You’ve OBVIOUSLY NEVER seen a street fight. That weight class shit DOES NOT MATTER!
Lord Sear is a fat nerd bitch
PEOPLE ARE TALKING WAY TOO MUCH THESE DAYS.
Sear was looking for trouble.
Yes, he was… you see how he tried to use Rakim’s words and his position on ghostwriting against him in a GOTCHA! kinda bitch move. Immediately after Rakim finishes talking about how he don’t fuck ghostwriting at all… this bitch say’s “Well MC Search says he was a ghostwriter for you!” Rakim reaction was like what? Like he just started speaking Mandarin Chinese or some foreign language to him.
To both Rakim & Serch…Lord Sear can get the Gas Face
Sear sounds like akademics at age 50 lmao
Lyror (Liar) Cohen and MC Search are perfect Poster Boy living examples in action of what Lord Jamar says about caucasian’s place in Hip Hop. They are guest and will ALWAYS be Guest, because there is a serious CULTURAL DISCONNECT! The very Idea of Lyor asking MC Search to ghostwrite for Rakim and MC Search ACTUALLY WRITING SOMETING proves Lord Jamar right. Neither one of them realized just how extremely DISRESPECTFUL that shit was and would have been to Rakim. Enters Eric B to shut that shit down in nano seconds. And to this day MC Search is too fucking stupid to know that story is not flattering to him and he needs to stop telling it!