--- product_id: 153632086 title: "Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius Hardcover – September 24, 2019" brand: "rakim" price: "€ 49.73" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/153632086-sweat-the-technique-revelations-on-creativity-from-the-lyrical-genius store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius Hardcover – September 24, 2019 **Brand:** rakim **Price:** € 49.73 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius Hardcover – September 24, 2019 by rakim - **How much does it cost?** € 49.73 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/153632086-sweat-the-technique-revelations-on-creativity-from-the-lyrical-genius) ## Best For - rakim enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted rakim brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius Hardcover – September 24, 2019 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41QDsRLI31L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars More EP Than Full Player, Sweat The Technique Still Has Enough Soul To Move The Crowd *by S***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2019* Thirty plus years after his debut, Rakim invites readers to follow the leader into his literary universe Sweat The Technique: Revelations On A Creativity From A Lyrical Genius. Billed as "part memoir-part writing guide," Ra goes behind the rhyme and explores the technique and inspiration behind his conceptual genius. He also shares perspectives on his spiritual views and offers motivational jewels for the reader.Offering rare reflections of his life and career, Rakim still holds the literary reigns tight like a grudge. Leaving topics previously touched on in social media blogs and old interviews on the cutting room floor, Rakim bypasses wild-style stories of his younger days when he and DJ Eric B rolled deep with the infamous Paid In Full posse. Ditto for the obligatory mouth-dropping industry confessions and untold stories recounting the late Eighties' testosterone-filled rap industry.Technique really comes alive when Rakim reflects on his early days as "Popo" and "Lil Griff"---the scrappy kid from Wyandanch, Long Island, part music/sports prodigy----part gun-toting hard rock, nurtured by his mother's support and guided by his father's wise and steady hand. Recounting the oft-told story of his entry in the rap game, Rakim shares how an unexpected visit from Eric B puts him on the fast track to becoming the teen-aged hip hop prodigy---automatically better than every rap peer and pioneer.Technique captures the dizzying highs: the big money paydays and rapid career ascent requiring Rakim to drop out of school. The bidding war that led to him signing the first million-dollar rap contract at the tender age of twenty. ("Just two years earlier, I had no thought of making money as a MC and now I was out buying a Benz, a Jeep Cherokee, jewelry, clothes and sneakers."). It reveals the lows: the pressures of young fatherhood and his grandmother's passing. Rakim expresses the guilt of reluctantly tending to a hot careers while his hero---his beloved father succumbed to bone cancer.Momentarily pulling back the veil of discretion, Rakim shares stories of his first love and briefly unpacks his sometimes conflicted relationship with his partner. He celebrates the accomplishments of their unlikely partnership while revealing his desire to be independent of it at the start of their journey. He revisits the growing pains, creative and business differences that would lead to their breakup as well as their tension filled and triumphant reunion. Sweat The Technique's circular prose at times can be thematic. Like Rakim's syncopated flow, it swings back and forth, both discreet and revealing all at once. Recollections capture the GOD MC's many moods and grooves. Bold and testy like Miles. Enigmatic like Monk. An ember-like spirit stoked by competition and self-mastery. A soaring rap deity whose family is the wind beneath his wings. More EP than a full-length player, Sweat The Technique still has enough soul to move the crowd. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book about being a Hip Hop MC *by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2021* I've now read KRS 1, RZA, U God and some other stuff from hip hop artists and this is a good one. Rakim breaks down his main events in his life and things a MC might want to know and relish. I really dig how he is a mystic, because that speaks to me much more than gangster rap and young/sex/drug/money stuff...which I can enjoy like a small desert from time to time without it warping my spiritual way of thinking; all that stuff is kind of like succumbing to shallowing exciting temptations when the greatest stuff is simple inner wisdom and a life that isn't a circus of being a big somebody, pleasure and bragging. Rakim makes being a nobody...but yet one who serves in the capacity that he does, something that many MC's (including many of the greats) won't ever achieve with all the women and cars out there to hijack their pen for a whispering shadow dangling fantasies....Good book:) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars The R! One of the Greatest of All Time! *by S***X on Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2022* I consider Rakim as one of the greatest emcees of all time. If he's not on your Mount Rushmore of emcees, i don't know what you're thinking. 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