Rakim Claps Again At Competition Crowd For Throwing Bottles Onstage: Watch

Rakim and Insane Clown Posse should not two acts you’d usually hyperlink collectively. And but, the previous did a present at ICP’s annual Gathering of the Juggalos pageant. Rakim had a set of recent and outdated songs in retailer for the group, however issues went awry when bottles began being hurled at his head. The rapper made it very clear that he did not recognize the disrespect. He proceeded to cease the present and lay into the ICP viewers for placing his security in danger. Evidently, Rakim is just not somebody you need to tick off.

“Chill with the motherf**king bottles, man,” Rakim informed the viewers. He tried to recuperate the momentum he’d misplaced after the bottle incident, nevertheless it proved fruitless. “For everyone that got here to have time, make some noise,” he added, to no avail. It was right here that the God MC determined to get stern. He laid out his frustration with the incident and made it very clear he wasn’t going to tolerate it once more. “‘Trigger, you understand, I’m not tryna get hit with no f**king bottle, man,” he said. “I like y’all, however I don’t wanna stroll off stage whereas we having time, you understand what I imply?”

The set was probably not what Rakim had in thoughts when he first pronounces his comeback. The rapper put out his first new album since 2009 in July, and spoke endlessly about his need to show he nonetheless had a musical spark. “The expectations that I not solely give myself, however what the folks give me,” he defined to Billboard. “I take advantage of that as gas. I would somewhat folks count on me to succeed than to count on me to fail. I gotta maintain doing it at a better charge as a result of that’s what they count on from me.”

Rakim additionally talked concerning the rush he will get from performing in entrance of a crowd. He informed the New York Put up that he by no means thought he’d get the prospect to rap into his mid-50s, a lot much less promote out venues. “In one among my rhymes, I mentioned, ‘I’ma transfer crowds to 2,000 and somethin,” the emcee recalled. “However I had no thought I’d nonetheless be right here rhyming at 50-something. For me, it ain’t one thing I may simply fall out of affection with. It’s who I’m.” Hopefully the following present goes higher.