Rakim : "I Played Drums On 'Juice' & Produced 80% Of My CATALOG"

[iLLusoYuN_Da_Adidas_King]

Steal credits, just like Rakim did. I love Rakim. he's my favorite MC of all time, but the public should know that an 18 year old produced most of Let the Rhythm hit Em album while in high school and didn't recieve any credit for it. That same 18 year old ALSO produced 70% of Kool G Rap's Wanted Dead or Alive around the same time and had his credits stolen from him on that album too by Eric B(he was credited for a couple in the album credits). If you got to ask who othis 18 year old child prodigy was, then, you're absolutely not a hip hop head

He is known as The Man, Xtra P, aka Large Pro.

 

[L. Deezy]

like what? I'm not saying you're lying, I just want to know. Puff himself says he doesn't know how anything in the studio works and he has no clue if someone is singing out of key. He can't produce vocals and harmonies. How does puff "produce a record"?

 

[Sean7]

He is known as The Man, Xtra P, aka Large Pro.

Highly slept on when heads are talking about producers/legends....

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Steal credits, just like Rakim did. I love Rakim. he's my favorite MC of all time, but the public should know that an 18 year old produced most of Let the Rhythm hit Em album while in high school and didn't recieve any credit for it. That same 18 year old ALSO produced 70% of Kool G Rap's Wanted Dead or Alive around the same time and had his credits stolen from him on that album too by Eric B(he was credited for a couple in the album credits). If you got to ask who othis 18 year old child prodigy was, then, you're absolutely not a hip hop head

How much work did Paul C do on the album before he was killed?

 

[Striving For Greatness]

Make business decisions for Rakim and put out an album nobody listened to where he did his best LL Cool J impression.

What the hell

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

How much work did Paul C do on the album before he was killed?

Paul C was killed before the recording process started. For years the rumor was that Paul C started working on the album, got killed, and then Large Pro came in to finish. That isn't true. Paul C was killed in 1989 before the recording of the album started. Paul's friend told Rakim a kid Paul was working with knew some of the beats he would use for the album and Rakim linked up with Large Pro and that led to Eric B having Large Pro produce most of Wanted Dead or Alive. And Large pro would use a lot of those sessions to work on his own music that would later become Breakin Atoms and record demos for Nas. I just found out recently that Nas is one of the vocals on "kool is back" chorus. Anton Pukshansky engineered LTRHE and WDOA albums along with Breakin Atoms and he's said in interviews that Eric B and Rakim never showed up to the studio when Large Pro was working. he said that Rakim would show up, do his verses in one take and leave. He also said that the day before the album was due, Eric B showed up with all of the Reels and he had to mix the album down in one day hahaha. Kool G rap in an interview said that Large Pro did over 70% of WDOA by himself in a book about it. Large Pro declined to be interviewed about it. To this day, it's hard to find any interviews about the LTRHE album. It's probably the most mysterious album in the history of hip hop because Large pro never fully explains what happened in the recording process, Rakim doesnt talk about it, and neither does Eric B. Anton Pukshansky is the only interview I've ever heard of someone giving a detailed account about the recording process of that album. And they were using a Publison sampler mostly and not always the Sp 1200 for LTRHE.

 

[KingsOfKings]

The 18th Letter

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Very impressive.

I absolutely hate that all these niqqas are calling themselves "King" so and so.

King Crooked sounds dumb. Crooked I was WAAAY better.

And Chip The Ripper was way better than King Chip.

 

[Flav]

He also did most of the scratching on his first album. It’s weird Rakim always made Eric B seem like a dope Dj he was really just a Bodyguard in all the pictures.

 

[DontEemTry]

What did Eric B do?

fukk up classics with his weak record scratchin

 

[King Kai]

Rak

 

[MJ Truth]

What did Eric B do?

Took some credit.

 

[I love Latina women]

the drums and bass lines on Juice are so nice

 

[QU Hectic]

The drums in “Don’t Sweat the Technique”

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Make business decisions for Rakim and put out an album nobody listened to where he did his best LL Cool J impression.

Man I have seen this album so much over the years. I saw it in the dollar bin before and still passed it up. I have noooo intentions of ever hearing it