When was the last time you were listening to a song and you heard a verse that made you immediately rewind the track to hear it again? To quote a Rakim lyric, “it’s been a long time.” Khaled M., an emcee who hails from Libya, Africa, but grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, is looking to do something about this. “I’m really trying to get people excited about lyrics again,” he explains, “I’m trying to take it back to the days when rhyming actually mattered.