Sun. Best Bets. 12/28
7:30pm Pop Music
With the duo Eric B. & Rakim in the mid-’80s, Long Island rapper Rakim became a formative figure in the hip-hop movement. His new album, “The 18th Letter,” breaks a four-year silence with a potent reminder of his rhyming skill. Rakim shares the bill at the House of Blues with the Cypress Hill spin-off the Psycho Realm.
* Rakim and the Psycho Realm, House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. $22.50. (213) 650-1451.
FREEBIE: A nature-cize hike in Eaton Canyon, 1750 N. Altadena Drive, Pasadena, 8 a.m. (626) 398-5420.
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