Rakim has once again distanced himself from the verified Eric B. and Rakim Twitter account after a recent tweet went viral that targeted the new generation of rappers.

“You are now witnessing the devolution of rap music,” a post sent from the account on February 12 read. “The death of poetry and smoothness, they use this. The absence of a message. The inability to create meaningful change through words and verses, but the worse is, they don’t even know they hurt this artful purpose, it’s tragic.”

The above tweet has since been deleted, along with nearly every other post ever sent from the account since it was created in April 2009, with only two retweets still visible on the feed.

During a recent episode of TMZ Live, Rakim cleared up any speculation that he was behind the tweet.

“The tweet was put out by an Eric B and Rakim tweeter, and I really had no information on it,” Rakim said.

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