FREDDIE FOXXX CALLS OUT RAKIM

Lou Reed, Dream Theater and Rakim spearheaded the 3rd Long Island Music Hall Of Fame induction and fund raising ceremony, which also featured The Magic Garde…

Bumpy Knuckles, who is also known as Freddie Foxxx, will release his new album, Amerikkkan Black Man, in February and the album contains the Rakim diss track, “The King is Down.” Foxxx told MTV.com, “I will eat Rakim’s ass alive on any record, any stage. When I finish with him, every bit of legendary status he had is gonna go out the window. I swear on everything I stand on, I will eat that n—a alive, bar by bar. I’ll tell him to his muthaf—in’ face.”

The beef between the two rappers began in the mid-’80s when both rappers were based on Long Island and rapping with their respective crews — Rakim with the Love Brothers and Foxxx with the Supreme Force. Later on Foxxx shared that people still trie dto gethim to battle Rakim and Kool G Rap. He said,

“I had a lot of people who was always trying to get me to battle with guys like Rakim and Kool G Rap. Who was always saying, ‘Yo dog you can get with those dudes easy.’ But I still had never heard anything that was so incredible lyrical about them that made me even really go feel like that. I like them cause they made an impact. Rakim changed the way hip hop sounded. Like Rakim was, you know what I mean, he changed the way people rap when he came out. G Rap was never really a big artist but he impacted the streets.”

According to Foxxx, he got angry after reading a recent interview Rakim did with a hip hop website. Rakim allegedly said, “I never f—ing turned down a battle with that muthaf—er! Foxxx wasn’t ferocious like that. Foxxx had two other cats that used to rhyme with him. They were a good group, but Foxxx wasn’t ferocious like that baby pa.”

Foxxx explained, “I read the article and it set me off. He said I’m ‘not ferocious.’ How dare he? His ego kicked in. I said I’m gonna let the world who he really is. People are only calling him a legend because of what he did with Eric B. Everything after that was wack. Nobody will say it to his face.”

Amerikkkan Black Man features guest appearances by Talib Kweli and John Cena with production by Alchemist, Pete Rock, DJ Scratch and DJ Premier.