Lakim Shabazz

Biography

Associated throughout his job with DJ Tag “the 45 Ruler,” New Jersey’s Lakim Shabazz — a Five Percenter created Larry Welsh — arrived up in the mid- to past due ’80s as an associate from the 45 King’s Taste Unit, a staff that included Queen Latifah and Apache within its membership. Shabazz had taken part within the 45 King’s notorious 900 Amount EP, the Tuff Town release that raised the status of everybody involved, specifically that of the 45 Ruler. Agreed upon with Tuff Town himself, Shabazz released a set of 45 King-produced LPs, 1988’s Pure Righteousness and 1990’s Shed Tribe of Shabazz — both filled up with Afrocentric and politically mindful rhymes that included the Five Percent Nation’s doctrine. The previous included “Dark Is Back again,” among the really great underground rap classics from the later ’80s. Shabazz, who created production abilities of his very own, has produced a few of his very own tracks, furthermore to financing his abilities to Gemstone D. & the Psychotic Neurotics’ Stunts, Blunts, and HIPHOP.

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