I'm f-cking thrilled Rakim is working with Pharrell after decades of working with no-name buffoons. Yeah, there were a couple classic songs with Premo...but everything else post-Eric B? Yikes.
This isn't the time to be nitpicky brehs...one step at a time. Go listen to The Seventh Seal, and you will give your left nut for a Pharell beat. He had a song on that album with a beat sampling NO DOUBT.