original story posted November 3, 2009
“He makes his kind of music and I make mine. We didn't understand how different we was until we got into the studio and started working together.”
Back in 2000, Rakim was thought to have made the signing of a lifetime when he placed himself inside the camp of Dr. Dre and joined the Aftermath Entertainment record label. Aside from the rapper, the melting of the two could have easily been a way to set their respective careers to new bounds.
As the work was set in motion for the album Oh, My God,Rakim found himself on hits such as Truth Hurts' “Addictive” and Jay-Z's “Watcher pt. 2.”
The road is tumultuous and it wasn't meant for the two as creative differences
