While I'm not too keen on a corporation like Red Bull sponsoring so-called lectures from some of my hip hop heroes like Chuck D, DJ Red Alert, Bobbito and Stretch, and MF Doom, Red Bull does provide an unfiltered forum with no set agenda, unlike right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers who infiltrate academic departments of American universities and create bogus think tanks.
In Rakim's "lecture", it's evident that in order to to be the greatest MC of all time, your confidence is humble and you have to be that kid from the outside looking in, the kid taking the LIRR into the city...
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/rakim
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