[youtube id=”EcKWZP3htY0″]Luke Cage’s second season premiered on Netflix today. In this clip, Rakim performs “King’s Paradise’ for the crowd at the Harlem Paradise club. Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad produced the song that is one of the season’s surprises. Rakim was also included in the will.i.am and Marvel comic book Masters Of The Sun last year. 

[youtube id=”WSh7gNFNz64″] [youtube id=”VYPDCkywXgc”] [youtube id=”DOoxptc5luM”] Last night Eric B. and Rakim performed their Paid In Full album at The Apollo to celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary. Flavor Flav, Special Ed, Roxanne Shante, EPMD, Kool Herc, Ice-T, Main Source and Fat Joe were special guests. Watch the performances of ” I Know You Got Soul,” “My Melody,” and  “I Ain’t No Joke.”

Thirty years ago Eric B. and Rakim released their seminal Paid In Full album. The recording was one of the first to bring the New York City street aesthetic to the world. Rakim revealed himself to be one of the few rappers to have immediate “God” status because of the cool delivery of his scientific but soulful rhymes. Paid In Full is one of the cornerstones of the Golden Era and it still inspires and moves the crowd. The duo is going to have a reunion show at the Apollo on July 7th, the exact release date three decades ago. They talked about the reunion show on the Ebro In The Morning Show and also offered their respect to Prodigy.

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Cam Be presents another mini cinema treat with this clip of Rakim at The Shrine in Chicago. The emcee performs, talks about hip-hop and it ends nicely with B-boys on the dancefloor.