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Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 3:48pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Discography: Paid in Full (as Eric B. & Rakim) (1987), Follow the Leader (as Eric B. & Rakim) (1988), Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em (as Eric B. & Rakim) (1990), Don’t Sweat the Technique (as Eric B. & Rakim) (1992), The 18th Letter (1997), The Master (1999), The Seventh Seal (2009) The closest thing hip hop has ever gotten to God is Rakim Allah – the most revolutionary lyricist hip hop has ever witnessed. On the strength of that famous opening line – “I came in the door, i said it before, I never let the mic magnatize me no more” – Rakim went on to transform simple rhyme patterns into an intricate art form. Not content to stick to the rigid structure previous rappers like LL, Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel were using, Rakim approached lyricism with fresh imagination, delivering his rhymes like a jazz musician plays their instrument – effortless, smooth and without boundaries. And as groundbreaking Paid in Full was, Rakim upped the notch with Follow the Leader, expanding on his multisyllabic rhymes and displaying a variety of stunning verbal acrobatics. There have been so many articles and reviews written about Rakim and his rhyme skills, anything I say now would simply be superfluous. Bottom line: Rakim is the most influential and one of the greatest rappers of all time, period. 1 Like |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by kr0ne(m): 3:57pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Gratefully, I'm the first to comment on this thread that has 100% right to hit the front page. Rakim Allah, as he's well known, is unarguably the god mc in the world of hip hop! This guy birthed the style most so-called top rated emcees are using today. His rhyme scheme is top notch! His flow is as easy as the air we breathe. Too bad he's so underrated, reason why the beat hounds flocking the mainstream may not know him. But I implore y'all to google and download Rakim's tracks and get the taste of what I call true lyricism. Thankfully, many a hip hop head have referenced him in their tracks as the grand master. Below is one of his tracks I love to listen to anyfuckingtime! [b] UPLIFT [1st verse] Levantore! Yeah, it's just ghetto, kid test the devil to hit the next level Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal Inflex the bezzle with the peddle to the metal In a thug's paradise where love have a price So we love for life like thugs love the night They sell drugs for ice for the Benz with bug lights Some hug mics to the world, hung like parasites The likes lethal, the mics lead you A sneak preview, watch what we do and what the hood teach you I still see through the eye of a needle So I can watch people cause slug backwards is evil [2nd verse] Levantore! Yo, what's this? Yo bust this. Yo it's time to up lift They think all we do is bust clips and puff splifs And plush whips and clutch chips and touch chicks Flont rocks like Fort Knox and hog blocks Taunt cops with more props and we want not Panhandling with your mans and them Scrambling, gambling, plans to win While the cops clock em, thieves flock em Women watch em, traders wanna top em Ay yo what's the problem Before the narcs knock em opposite playas plot to rob em The ghetto got em, my man said it's rough at the bottom [3rd verse] Levantore! Ghetto alert, let's do whatever work to get rid of the curse We went from 1st to America's worst On this competitive turf, now let's inherit the earth There's more prize for one another, and call shots 12:00 til the next ball drop All year around plus they shuffle non stop You think it's rough at the bottom, it's even rougher on top My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me And everybody's side of the street'll be celly Ain't nothing funny, burn plenty and burn money And earn money and watch the century turn 20 [4th verse] Levantore! We all should, from the woods to the big city and the small hood Everybody should be welcome to the ball if we all could, But we fall cause we brawl, yo it ain't all good We need to play right, stay tight with ya air alight Keep your game tight, no need to play trife Get cheese from the daylight to the late night And it's shouldn't take death to appreciate life Before a lot parish, we got to cherish if Allah let us Let's give prop and merits till the block flourish In this metropolis, stay on top of this You know what the prophet is, be prosperous [5th verse] Levantore! Now we networking Respect the next person, it'll be less hurting Or left lurkin, while we kept our dreads working Connect set for certain, total networking Last chance to advance and stash grands If you have plans to have fam and mad land Own shine, condone crime or hold 9s I know what the problem is, killing our own kind To my flame throwers, train sober, remain soldiers Stay sane so these pretty dames can hold us Terror terrain rollers and Range Rovers so the train goers Claim your fame, maintain, till your game's over [6th verse] Levantore! Ghetto alert, let's do whatever work to get rid of the curse We went from 1st to America's worst On this competitive turf, now let's inherit the earth There's more prize for one another, and call shots 12:00 til the next ball drop All year around plus they shuffle non stop You think it's rough at the bottom, it's even rougher on top My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me And everybody's side of the street'll be celly Ain't nothing funny, burn plenty and burn money And earn money and watch the century turn 20 Levantore! [/b] 2 Likes |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 3:59pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Bros Rakim is no way the greatest rapper of all time. that should be lil Wayne. Rakim defined Flow and Rhyming and gave Hip Hop a new meaning but their are doper More lyrical rappers out there who will floor that man. Rakim isn't a Rapper he is an MC. and even in the class of MC's the likes Of Immortal Technique,Vinnie Paz,Dead Prez,Pharaoe Monch,Eminem,Nas,Jay Z,B.I.G,Tupac,Chino Xl,Cannibus,Copywright,J.Cole,Kendrick Lamar and the many other MC's I fail to mention will Basically floor him. 1 Like |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 4:40pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
acenazt:Lil wayne ![]() You discredit Rakim Allah for lil wayne? #Shocked 3 Likes |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 4:44pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
kr0ne:Ra is a beast. Damn! |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Lumyboi(m): 4:57pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
acenazt: Common man. Most of those u mentioned are commercial musicians/rappers. Though dem immortal n cannibus n sm u mentioned r dope. The hardcore rap we love is about lyrical content. I dnt tnk nas, jayz n wayne r in d class.. Way too commercial Thumbs up to d clan. Nice one op |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by kr0ne(m): 4:59pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
acenazt: Differentiate between a rapper and an emcee |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by kr0ne(m): 5:09pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Canibus ft Rakim - I'll Bus Em, You Punish Em (chorus deleted) (Canibus) Yo, yo... Out on the battling tip my verbal lateral grip Keeps my tongue glued to the A-Dat when I'm trackin' 'em swift Let my spit lubricate the chap on my lips And make you rappers have fits 'cause I'm back in the mix Forget a pad and a pen, I write rhymes on an IBM Ebonics is dead, the binary language is in Canibus practices in a room wit a thousand candles lit Meditating on this rapping shit Because my freestyle reigns sovereign Wit a deeper conscious than the prophet Muhammad was born wit My brain cavity is enormous My left hemisphere alone harnesses all of the 7 sharveous While the right one harnesses darkness The type of dark that makes a house haunted The type of dark that people get lost in The type of dark you fear when you're dead in your coffin I hear you talkin' but I ignore it Cause you garbage and your rhymes borin' So keep standin' on the corner, the thrash-man will collect you in the mornin' Thug cats frontin' Wacker than Blinky Blink on the back of the wack-ass wagon babblin' about - nothin' Now that real hood rats could get it on, black Meet me at The Tunnel where pussy cats get robbed at Rubber faced rappers get stretched like elastic claymation characters with verbal vernaculars Slappin' ya like a white water raft or an Olympic kayak paddlin' across the - Niagara Fake MCs haul ass like they runnin' track Where ever Canibus or Rakim is at (Rakim) Be ready and at ya best The celebrity match of death Heart snatched through your chest, cardiac arrest Crack your neck while I break your arms, catch your breath Then I asked the ref, "how many cats is left?" One on one, who challenging? Come get did All I have is a pen and punish you kids Abdomen punctured and look what I did to his wig Wanna live then I stab 'em in the lung with his rib Every word I say detach a vertebrae from your spine Rematch wherever we meet at, any place anytime Get your snot-box smashed with a 9 Smacked with a rhyme, push your forehead to the back of your mind Try to explain what it's like seeing your brain Your insane, soon to be ID'ed as remains Then I reincarnate 'em and kill 'em again Again and again, again and again (Canibus): Yo, yo…. The battle started with a grapple He had real long hair so a grabbed a hand full And chopped 'em in the Adams-apple His partner in back of you tried to attack you So I'ma twist 'em up like a pret-zel then I'ma tag you (Rakim): I'm on some stone cold shiit Warn your whole click Cartilage get blown until the whole bone split Who wanna spit, bang quick, strangle 'em wit his lip He tried to flip but I left his body danglin' (Canibus): You left 'em danglin' I can't believe he wanna grapple again I swung 'em around like I was dancing wit 'em Put his arms in back of his head and snapped 'em again Then I grabbed his limbs and put in the figure-"6 subtracted from 10" (Rakim): Seven birds, make 'em swerve 'til their vision is blurred Turn cats that suped from superb to nerds Just say the word, I'll leave your DNA on the curb And stick my dick in your ear and f_ck what you heard |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 5:11pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Lumyboi:I was Grading em on Lyrical Content. y'all know Nas n Jay z are Lyrical geniuses. |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 5:15pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Djicemob:You Discredit Rakim by Calling him a Rapper. he is Above that Horizon. He is in a different league. I leave the Title Rappers for people like Lil Wayne. 1 Like |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by kr0ne(m): 5:21pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
acenazt: Lyrical What?!! Read the lyrics below from Rakim [b]"How To Emcee" Look what ya'll made me do [Chorus:] This is your koran or bible To be a true emcee icon or idol The contents you put in your songs are vital Like training for the ufc you want a title Slam thoughts on a canvas flip em and pin em metaphors and similes and synonyms in em Spit heat around the town the more you get it heard till you spit at 2000 miles before it hit a curve Then float your rhymes and your rap pages word play punch lines and catch phrases Heat spots with players and ballers new game street talk straight off the corners new slang I got heat for crowds for those that pursuit it Spitters I show you flow till your vocals are through it I m showing you freestyle just focus into it If you a gee I'll show you how to cope when you do it [Chorus] Forever sick like catching aids is In a class of greatness for magic phrases My predicates last for pages every letter fit trend setter like fashion statements When folks get a sign and a hope forever I wrote some of the illest rhymes ever put to gether Soon as I make em rappers take em analyze em for days and para phrase em I'm back hip hoppers I'm back to spit some documents Raps hit the block it's a wrap it's the apocalypse The hood give my rap flow names like nine eleven and crack cocaine I hit the building it gets hotter in em It's like birds most rappers don't know how to flip em I got hip em get hop and show em how to spit em I bust a rhyme then I school em for for free I scholarship em Chorur:song the competition know the deal your not ready now Because your dealing with the R know how it's going down this is it kid your so sick with your skills your flow goes right in you can kill rap It's hard since you can flip it isnt it bars it's infinite so ra deliver it far different Hard lyric and part instruments start spitting the articulate ya'll rhythms get Till every syllable you drop is pivotal It's not original it's not as memorable I'll lyrical till hes so popular they sick of you Pandemic a threat level five it's critical Kill em off with a word like euthanasia Till it spread to the youth in asia In the booth I'm major my music monumental I'm a mogul You gonna make sence I'm gonna show you You got to put the life in them lines make the hear sight to the make your flow tighter brighter design So if the mic is your grind then biting s a crime especially if a ghost writers writing your rhymes. [Chorus] It don matter if I ain't on the page You gonna tell me what you want I give it to you the way you want it show you how to flow and how to rip any phrase you you want you just keep your eye on me I show you how to emcee If it's wack ordinary displays you want tell what you want I give it to you the way you want show you how to flow and how to rip any stage you on I can show you how to emcee like I got a degree[/b] Do u know what true lyricism is all about? |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 5:30pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Rapper= Someone that makes rap music for money as a job or occupation. Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz Chief Keef and Lil B are solid examples MC= One who makes rap music as a hobby and as a job, and usually is talented. Mainly MC’s lean more towards the roots and fundamentals of hip hop like the four pillars, they do not try to put on a pop or mainstream image. KRS-One, Big L, Nas,Immortal Technique etc |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Areacode213: 5:31pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
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Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 5:48pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Rapper= Someone that makes rap music for money as a job or occupation. Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz Chief Keef and Meekmill are solid examples MC= One who makes rap music as a hobby and as a job, and usually is talented. Mainly MC’s lean more towards the roots and fundamentals of hip hop like the four pillars, they do not try to put on a pop or mainstream image. KRS-One, Big L, Nas, and my English Teacher/Rapper an MC can be A Rapper buy a Rapper isn't Necessarily an MC. |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 5:54pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Example of A Rapper's Lyrics Grinding Verse 1 - Lil Wayne: I'm grindin', I'm grindin', I'm grindin' I promise I Bleep her until I get tired, retire and then come out retirement My girl like it rough she said "find me a diamond" Her body be grindin', Lord we be on every kind of narcotic That make us believe, when we lyin', we honest, I love you Pick, Michael Jackson to Jordan to Tyson to Myers Too much dirty money when the colors Are washing the whites in the dryer my nigga It ain't rocket science just rockets I sleep in pussy not pajamas, grindin' I got this shit down to a science, I turn in my project, A minus Whew, I ain't crazy, I'm krazy and all of my niggas chaotic Dressed in all black like they gothic Music too loud to hear sirens, we pop, pop, pop up where you stay Knock, knock, knock, anyone home? Pop, pop, pop, pop then we outtie I need a bitch like Naomi to take off her clothes. example of an MC's lyrics. immortal Technique's 2nd verse on The 4Th Branch. Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension And they refuse to even mention, European intervention Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams U.S. manufactured missles, and M-16's Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams Media censorship, blocking out the video screens A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin' The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin' And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom Cause you bleeped the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon It's open season with the CIA, bugging my crib Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid Where nobody gives a Bleep whether you die or you live I'm tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks You don't give a Bleep about us, I can see through your facade Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God Bitch niggaz scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard. 1 Like |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by quinnboy: 6:27pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Any direct link to download Rakim's song? Me don check online tire Oº°ºooOº°ºoo. I want to listen to real MC |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by kr0ne(m): 6:34pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
quinnboy:I don't know of any direct links, but try mp3skull.com |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by 007Bruce: 6:58pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
quinnboy: waptrick.com/_common/search/search.jsp?c=rakim&type=full_mp3 |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by 007Bruce: 7:09pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
acenazt:oga dont feed us shyte!! This is just your definition.. There's no diff between an emcee & a rapper! mc is short form of mic controller(hiphop) you're just a stanwayne telling us weezy's the greatest rapper! 1 Like |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 7:12pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
007Bruce:bullshit I don't even like lil Wayne. I gave him the title cos he is the best among the other trash spitting rappers like 2chainz |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by 007Bruce: 7:18pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
acenazt:i dont care about your thoughts, but decieving people with them aint good! You almost convinced krone ![]() |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 7:20pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
007Bruce:na u sabi oh. |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 7:20pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
acenazt:Premier league? He achieved god status doin what? ...if not rapping. Boss, lil wayne and Rakim shouldnt be mentioned on the same thread. 1 Like |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by 007Bruce: 7:22pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
acenazt:hehe sharp guy ![]() |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by 007Bruce: 7:27pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Djicemob:dont mind him.. He's a stanwayne |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 7:27pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
@Kr0ne 18TH letter By Rakim [Verse 1] Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains 'til things change They strain to sling slang, I'm trained to bring game History that I arranged been regained by King James Go to practice, with tactics, when the track hits, theatrics Women that look like actress the status of Cleopatra's Stacks of mathematics to feed yo-asiatics As I find out, what the facts is, for geographic No time to sip Mo's with hostess, never mind what the total gross is I rip shows, stay focused, and split cheese, with soldiers While you hit trees and coast I spit flows that be ferocious And with these explosives, I split seas for Moses Shine permanently only my mind's concernin me Fire burns in me eternally time's eternity Followers turn on me they'll be in a mental infirmary Determinely advance technology better than Germany Since the first days you know of, till the last days is over I was always the flow-er, I made waves for Noah From a compound, to the anatomy, to the breakdown of a atom Some of my rap patterns, still surround Saturn From the ancient hieroglyphics, to graffiti painted pictures I study I know the scriptures but nowaday ain't it vicious Date back I go beyond, check the holy Qu'ran To speeches at the autobahn, now we get our party on So being benificent, I bless em with dialogue They expectin the next testament, by the God I roam through battlezones with chrome for chaperone Blast beat with saxophones one of the baddest rappers known Every country city and borough, sidestreet and ghetto Isle and alley and meadow, theories thorough enough to echo When it was one mass of land, with one nash' of man And the whole mass was ran under one master plan Since the world's metamorphis, and the plan is kept in orbit Turntables we spin awkward but needles never skip off it Rhythms we expressin similar to our ancestors It'll answer your questions if you understand the message From the days of the slave choppers, to the new age of prophets As heavy as hip-hop is I'm always ready to drop it From the mind which is one of Allah's best designs And mines'll stand the test of time, when I rhyme [Hook] The 18th Letter , the prophecy professor I stay clever, long as the planet stay together Bring up praise from Mecca , make a phrase for the better In new days to remember, always and forever [Outro] The R baby 1 Like |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by JigsawKillah(m): 12:11am On Nov 11, 2014 |
Djicemob u sound like anyone rapper should be compared to Ra even Lil Gay is yet to mAtch Em's stats talk less of Nas n Jay Ra is god! |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by kr0ne(m): 7:13am On Nov 11, 2014 |
Djicebomb, I read that verse several times, mehn ![]() The rhyme scheme is out of this world! Where those people wey dey compare Ra with Em for rhymes self? ![]() |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 7:14am On Nov 11, 2014 |
JigsawKillah:Not me o My earlier posts says the R in rap is rakim. |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 7:28am On Nov 11, 2014 |
kr0ne:He basically rhymed the whole sentence almost to the word level. PureGenuis. |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by kr0ne(m): 10:22am On Nov 11, 2014 |
Djicemob:Yes, and as at the time he dropped this Em was nobody |
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by ELYMAXiimus(m): 11:00am On Nov 11, 2014 |
That dude saying lil-lame is the greatest must be high on cow sh1t... |
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