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The RE-UP
Hip-Hop · 2025 · 8 tracks · 30m

The RE-UP

Rakim

A concise, eight-track masterclass in technical lyricism. Stoic baritone delivery meets dusty, jazz-inflected boom bap production with surgical precision.

August 29, 2025

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A focused, authoritative meditation on craft and legacy delivered with unwavering cool.

Tracklist · 8 Tracks · 30m
01
Be Ill
4:22
02
Now Is the Time
2:54
03
Love Is the Message
3:21
04
God’s Playground
3:05
05
Pendulum
6:41
06
International
3:53
07
Sign of 7even
2:39
08
Not to Be Defined
3:15
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the beat drops out on Pendulum, leaving only a syncopated bassline and a masterclass in multisyllabic rhyming.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does The RE-UP sound next to the rest of Rakim's catalogue?

Focused Work+2.4σ

Focused Work saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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