Hip-Hop From, Queens New York United States Of America AK Skills is a gifted rapper from Far Rockaway, Queens, who managed to make noise in the mid-90s with a tragically small but mega-dope discography that remains imprinted in our collective memory mostly thanks to that culture of hiphop nostalgia and obscuratanism made possible by mixtape swapping, filesharing and blogging. In his short career, Ak showed great taste in beats, enlisting the likes of Lord Finesse (“Check The Flava”)