New Album By Legendary Lyricist Rakim 'Live, Lost & Found,' To Be Released On March 4th, 2008

NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ KOCH Records) - Legendary lyricist Rakim is set to release a brand new album titled "Live, Lost & Found" on March 4th, 2008. "Live, Lost & Found" features four previously unreleased tracks, including the new single "It's Nothing," as well as an additional 17 tracks of classic Rakim material performed live.

Rakim is near-universally acknowledged as one of the greatest MCs - perhaps the greatest - of all time within the hip-hop community. His flow is smooth and liquid, inflected with jazz rhythms and carried off with an effortless cool that makes it sound as though he's not even breaking a sweat.

After teaming up with Queens DJ Eric B. in 1986, Rakim recorded a string of classic material like "Eric B. Is President," "I Ain't No Joke" and "Paid in Full."
The duo's first two full-length albums, 1987's "Paid in Full" and 1988's "Follow the Leader," are still regarded as all-time hip-hop classics; Rakim's work set out a blueprint for other, similarly progressive-minded MCs to follow, and helped ensure that even after the rise of other fertile scenes around the country, East Coast rap would maintain a reputation as the center of innovative lyrical technique.