Throwback: Lakim Shabazz - Lost Tribe of Shabazz

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water ur seeds
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in The Reason
Such a tough joint, Lakim dropped mad knowledge on this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fWoINftahw
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  • Kwan Dai
    Kwan Dai Members Posts: 6,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Damn Sun. You went there. Great times. Brothers were teaching. Even if you weren't on that vibe. The idea was to always learn and improve self.
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  • 5 Grand
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    I thought I was the only Lakim Shabazz fan on the IC.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttt8NcVpNdo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JStSukV1Rlw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oCRoLJyfv8
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  • water ur seeds
    water ur seeds Members Posts: 17,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2017
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    @5grand

    Lakim was dope bro, I thought his first album was a classic, in todays climate I think this tune seems relevant and no matter what race or nationality everyone can pick up some knowledge from it...

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  • king hassan
    king hassan Members Posts: 22,739 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This was my joint, I still have the 12''. And he rocking the low top Nike Lava's

    https://youtu.be/6B5D_IHYY-U
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  • water ur seeds
    water ur seeds Members Posts: 17,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How old was Lakim when he was dropping music, seems like he wasnt around for long, but was quite young...
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  • 5 Grand
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    Here's an interview with DJ Mark The 45 King, Chill Rob G and Lakim Shabazz. They start off with an interview and then they start free styling.

    Part 1
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW52rIK2D9U

    Part 2
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTMfVoBuftI

    Part 3
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw83t5wvLkM

    Part 4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIlkkvt-9SQ
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  • water ur seeds
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    5 Grand wrote: »
    Here's an interview with DJ Mark The 45 King, Chill Rob G and Lakim Shabazz. They start off with an interview and then they start free styling.

    Part 1
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW52rIK2D9U

    Part 2
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTMfVoBuftI

    Part 3
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw83t5wvLkM

    Part 4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIlkkvt-9SQ

    WOOOOW, Lakim's flow was butter right there, fckn fire... Chill Rob G did his thing, but Lakim was on another level... The verse from Rob about his cousin and brother was deep...

    But man listening to this I cant believe Lakim didnt have more success, only two albums??? Would of been dope to hear him still doing this thing throughout the 90s in the golden era, especially during the early 90s as Afrocentric hip hop was really poppin...

    Am I crazy in saying Lakim kind sounds abit like Styles P at times in these cyphers??? There were a couple times he pronounced a few words I thought sounded Styles P-ish...

    Yo was that verse he spat in part 4, around @5min mark??? That was crazy, I never head that before...
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  • 5 Grand
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    edited August 2017
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    water ur seeds wrote: »

    WOOOOW, Lakim's flow was butter right there, fckn fire... Chill Rob G did his thing, but Lakim was on another level... The verse from Rob about his cousin and brother was deep...

    But man listening to this I cant believe Lakim didnt have more success, only two albums??? Would of been dope to hear him still doing this thing throughout the 90s in the golden era, especially during the early 90s as Afrocentric hip hop was really poppin...

    Am I crazy in saying Lakim kind sounds abit like Styles P at times in these cyphers??? There were a couple times he pronounced a few words I thought sounded Styles P-ish...

    Yo was that verse he spat in part 4, around @5min mark??? That was crazy, I never head that before...

    Yeah, I always thought Lakim and Chill Rob G were on the same level as KRS, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Chuck D, Slick Rick, etc. but the problem was they didn't get the advertising and promotion that the others got.

    After Chill Rob G's first album he thought his label was ? him so he stopped rapping and became a security guard. But that album was solid. I'd give it 4.5 mics, there was a hip-house song that was kinda wack but the rest of the album was butter at the time. He would have been mentioned alongside Kane, Rakim and KRS if he kept making albums.

    Lakim was dope but he was a little too boom-bapish. He didn't really have any hits in the traditional sense, the type of song you'd play at a party but he was nice on the mic. But around 1992 all the pro-black/5% rappers got left behind and gangsta rap took over. There was no place for a 5% rapper that didn't have any hits so he faded off into the sunset.

    But Lakim has a lot of loosies and/or ghost songs that aren't on his albums. DJ Mark the 45 King used to make breakbeat albums and there was always one or two songs that Lakim rapped on. He has a full albums worth of material that came out around between his first and second albums:
    1. The Posse is Large - MC La Kim*
    2. La Kim Theme - DJ Mark The 45 King feat Lakim Shabazz*
    3. We Got The Funk - DJ Mark The 454 King feat Lakim Shabazz
    4. Red Black and Green - DJ Mark The 45 King feat Lakim Shabazz
    5. When A Wise Man Speaks - DJ Mark The 45 King feat Lakim Shabazz
    6. Master Of The Game - DJ Mark The 45 King feat Lakim Shabazz
    7. Smooth Yet Hard - DJ Mark The 45 King feat Lakim Shabazz
    8. Style Is Free - Dj Mark The 45 King feat Lakim Shabazz
    9. Hands OF Fate - DJ Mark The 45 King feat Lakim Shabazz
    10. Passin The Mike - DJ Mark The 45 King feat Apache and Lakim Shabazz
    11. The Flavor Unit Assassination Squad - DJ Mark The 45 King feat Apache, Lakim Shabazz, Queen Latifah, Double J, Lord Alibaski
    12. Your Arms Are Too Short To Box With ?
    13. Love Spell (unreleased)
    14. Africa (unreleased)
    15. Ndodemnyama - Hip Hop Against Apartheid

    * These songs have the same lyrics as The Posse Is Large (Remix) on his first album but the beats are different.

    ^^^ Those are all songs featuring Lakim Shabazz that came out between 1988-1990 that aren't on either of his albums.

    As you can see, Lakim has enough loosies and ghost tracks to make a third album from that era
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