This was 88 no one was flowing like this .. this is why he's called the God Mc .. he birthed lyrical rappers technically.. Big Daddy Kane was the closest to him at that time but Rakim was on another level.. He's permanently number one on my Top5
These Were The Day's, in The 80s, and, 90s, when Your Song Didn't Get Played On The Radio Unless You Had, PURE TALENT, On The Microphone..! So Anybody Talking DOWN On, Y'all Need's To Know, If You Didn't Live It, You Can't Appreciate it,.. As Much.., Doesn't Mean You Have To HATE it, Just Listen And You Might LEARN Or Become a Better person, Because of a True Rap song, That MEANS Something..!!! Not This Jibberish Today, That You Have To Unravel,.. To Figure Out..!!!!
Those are NEW YORK beats. Beats for subways and skyscrapers. Hard hitting beats. That’s the NYC sound from the 80s and early 90s. This is back when hiphop was still very much NYC.
This part has always been one of my favorite rhymes. The visualization is dope. "Follow me, and were ya thinking you were first? Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe. What could you say as the earth gets further and further away, planets are small as balls of clay. Astray into the Milky Way - world's out of sight. Far as the eye can see - not even a satellite. Now stop and turn around and look, as ya stare in the darkness, ya knowledge is took." Too cold.
That why this song is so dope. If you close your eyes and listen. He takes you off the Earth, then deeper and deeper and farther into outer space until you’re in total darkness….. THEN he follows up with the line “So keep staring soon ya suddenly see a star, You better follow it cause it's the R” He’s the light in the darkness to follow to if you want to guided home. Too Cold!
Rakim is considered the GOAT by most emcees, he’s the greatest lyricist of all time he literally changed the way people rapped and made them step their game up, the inventor of double entendres and inside rhyme patterns in hiphop, here’s a list of emcees who call him the GOAT, and their biggest influence and the they are all on record and video saying so: Pharoahe Monch, Black Thought( The Roots), Jay-Z, Canibus, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt(The Dogg Pound), Brother Ali, Mos Def, NAS, DMX, Eminem, Grand Puba(Brand Nubian), Lord Jamar(Brand Nubian), Chuck D(Public Enemy), Trey D(The Eastsidaz), Lauryn Hill(The Fugees), Missy Elliot, Raekwon( Wu-Tang Clan), Kanye West, DJ Premier, The D.O.C., GURU(Gang Starr), Busta Rhymes, Ice Cube, just to name a few. He your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.
46 Year old here and i love y’alls reaction to the music of my era. When this joint came out they took wordplay and Hardcore beat making for the East Coast to the next level. He was def beyond his time when this sht came out just like Nas was when he dropped. Sub from me fam…….. keep em coming 💯
I tell young cats ALL THE TIME... Your favorite rappers, FAVORITE RAPPER, is THE GOD MC. As far as STRAIGHT BARS from the God, it has to be LYRICS OF FURY. Hold on, strap in and prepare for some of the HOTTEST BARS YOU EVER HEARD! Its 30 YEARS OLD, and would put it up POUND FOR POUND against ANYBODYS lyrics today.
Rakim is the grandfather to today's rap flow, before Rakim no MC was flowing like this. I been saying this for about10 years, Chuck D even said this on the Bird app
Here's what most don't know. those 1st 4 albums. Rakim said himself he produced 80% plus of it by working with the engineer and making his visions happen. He played a few instruments. His aunt was the legendary Ruth Brom. The God Emcee is that for a real reason. I appreciate you youngins that tuned in. This is where many Emcee's learned from. No father to Rakim's style. He can't be moved.
My dudes!!!! Keep them Rakim reactions coming🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤 The next reactions y’all gotta do is Rakim’s * Let the Rhythm Hit EM🔥🔥🔥🔥 * Microphone Fiend🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 * As the Rhyme goes on🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
No mumbling rap here! Respect to the god not one curse word! He change the style of rap he wasn't doing it hip hop the Kurtis blow and all that he came out with his own his flow is so sick style.
It is not held in as high regard as some of his other masterpieces but Casulties of War is Rakim at his storytelling best and it also has a prophetic feel because of the subjuct matter . Keep growin fellas
I have put my earpiece in and listened to this song while in my drift car. I have always loved their music , but this shit is hard AF in a race car on a track at 6000 rpms!
There are good Rappers. But Rakim is a natural born lyrical multisyllabic rap/poetry genius. There was no FLOW, until Rakim invented it. He's Is the GOAT.
You boys just made me proud, I love to see young brothers reaction to Rakim he is the Goat 🐐 in my opinion, lyrically there’s no comparison i appreciate the love
Rakim was the MC to bring metaphors and complex flows to hip-hop; before him, rap was much simpler in structure and vocabulary. Rakim, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, and Big Daddy Kane were like the Four Horsemen of that era.
I'm going to give you ten: 1. Eric B & Rakim/ In the ghetto 2. Big Daddy Kane/ Ain't No Half-Steppin 3. Ice-T / you played yourself 4. Nas -Take It In Blood 5. MC Lyte/ Lyte As A Rock 6. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo/ Road to the Riches 7. L.L. Cool J/ I'm Bad 8. Boogie down Productions/ My Philosophy 9. Kool G Rap/ Thug Love Story (from his roots of evil album) 10. Self-destruction
Ayo, what’s good fellas. I just ran across y’all channel and I’m feeling it. Word! Being a New Yorker, I want to put y’all on to some fire around that time period. Here we go: Raking songs: “move the crowd”, “my melody “, “microphone fiend” Artist - Big Daddy Kane Songs - “set it off”. “Ain’t no half steppin “, “warm it up Kane “, “ The Symphony” Artist - Kool G Rap Songs - “Road to the Riches”, “ill street blues”, “on the run”, “men at work”, “Fast Life” Artist - Nas Songs- “NY state of mind”, “Rewind”, “I gave you power”.
What Rakim and Kool G Rap created is called Mafiaso Rap Rakim influenced everyone from The Notorious B.I.G.Nas Jay - Z The Wu-Tang Clan especially Raekwon The Chef basically any rapper that take the art of rhyming seriously pays homage to The R he originated this style.
This is song you MUST to listen to with out the video. The Video is great with the 1920-1940 Mafia theme but the words don’t match. The video is capture your attention BUT There is a much deeper meaning if just listen to the words alone. And you “Will Travel at magnificent speeds around the Universe…” “From century to century, you’ll remember me in history, not a mystery or a memory….” This is song about The Asiatic Black Man: The Maker, The Owner, The Cream of the Universe. Look up the 5% Nation or The Nation of Gods and Earths, Rakim is a member, and this song is laced with their perspective and teachings.
Ummm... That was not a clap back to Follow the Leader. RAW came out in '87. Follow The Leader came out in '88. HOW?!?🤷🏾♂️😂😂😂 How come people just make up stuff on the internet?
This was a jab at EPMD the Dig Em Dug Em Line was directly aimed at them You should react to EPMD Headbanger You Gots To Chill Your A Customer So What You Saying Crossover The Symphony 2000 Rampage
This was moumental when it dropped. It was so different most couldn't follow. I couldn't understand it initially because ut was so different: 1. The beat 2. The flow 3. The cadence 4. Rakim even changed his voice 5. The speed of his delivery got faster This was a ground breaking song. A great song. The last time I felt like this about a song was "BROKEN LANGUAGE" by Smooth Da Hustler and Trigger The Gambler.
Follow the Leader samples "Nautilus" by Bob James. The Paid in Full Album was basically all James Brown samples. Follow the Leader album moved to basically all jazz samples.
Sorry boys, I’m, late to the party ! I’m a little old but the R was our most respected MC. Good to see the new generation enjoying what we grew up on! Μy no 1 was Lyrics of Fury.
Y’all gotta understand that rappers from that era were expected to drop at least 2 hot 16’s every song…preferably 3. And you couldn’t bite and your shit had to sound original. Rappers were rapping more for other rappers than for the fans. They were figuratively tryna take each others heads off lyrically. This shit is high art.
You choose it Slow or Fast Tha R can bring it to ya. His versatility is unmatched and tha beats keep coming. My workouts always consist of at least a half hour of Tha R.
This was 88 no one was flowing like this .. this is why he's called the God Mc .. he birthed lyrical rappers technically.. Big Daddy Kane was the closest to him at that time but Rakim was on another level.. He's permanently number one on my Top5
Nuff Said
Gotta give Cool Moe Dee his flowers too..
These Were The Day's, in The 80s, and, 90s, when Your Song Didn't Get Played On The Radio Unless You Had, PURE TALENT, On The Microphone..! So Anybody Talking DOWN On, Y'all Need's To Know, If You Didn't Live It, You Can't Appreciate it,.. As Much.., Doesn't Mean You Have To HATE it, Just Listen And You Might LEARN Or Become a Better person, Because of a True Rap song, That MEANS Something..!!! Not This Jibberish Today, That You Have To Unravel,.. To Figure Out..!!!!
Those are NEW YORK beats. Beats for subways and skyscrapers. Hard hitting beats. That’s the NYC sound from the 80s and early 90s. This is back when hiphop was still very much NYC.
Rakim singlehandedly changed the course of rap with his flow. His rhymes are still ahead of time.
This part has always been one of my favorite rhymes. The visualization is dope. "Follow me, and were ya thinking you were first? Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe. What could you say as the earth gets further and further away, planets are small as balls of clay. Astray into the Milky Way - world's out of sight. Far as the eye can see - not even a satellite. Now stop and turn around and look, as ya stare in the darkness, ya knowledge is took." Too cold.
That why this song is so dope. If you close your eyes and listen. He takes you off the Earth, then deeper and deeper and farther into outer space until you’re in total darkness…..
THEN he follows up with the line “So keep staring soon ya suddenly see a star, You better follow it cause it's the R”
He’s the light in the darkness to follow to if you want to guided home. Too Cold!
Awesome video too
Cold asf bruh
'Mahogany' is one of their more slept-on, classic cuts.
There's no official video... it's a dope album song.
And the 1st time hearing Rakim saying 'Fuck' (around n miss the show!) So fukn sexy!❤
Cold
That’s always been my favorite. When I was a teenager I used to listen to that album when I was going out to party.
Rakim is considered the GOAT by most emcees, he’s the greatest lyricist of all time he literally changed the way people rapped and made them step their game up, the inventor of double entendres and inside rhyme patterns in hiphop, here’s a list of emcees who call him the GOAT, and their biggest influence and the they are all on record and video saying so: Pharoahe Monch, Black Thought( The Roots), Jay-Z, Canibus, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt(The Dogg Pound), Brother Ali, Mos Def, NAS, DMX, Eminem, Grand Puba(Brand Nubian), Lord Jamar(Brand Nubian), Chuck D(Public Enemy), Trey D(The Eastsidaz), Lauryn Hill(The Fugees), Missy Elliot, Raekwon( Wu-Tang Clan), Kanye West, DJ Premier, The D.O.C., GURU(Gang Starr), Busta Rhymes, Ice Cube, just to name a few. He your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.
46 Year old here and i love y’alls reaction to the music of my era. When this joint came out they took wordplay and Hardcore beat making for the East Coast to the next level. He was def beyond his time when this sht came out just like Nas was when he dropped.
Sub from me fam…….. keep em coming 💯
I tell young cats ALL THE TIME... Your favorite rappers, FAVORITE RAPPER, is THE GOD MC. As far as STRAIGHT BARS from the God, it has to be LYRICS OF FURY. Hold on, strap in and prepare for some of the HOTTEST BARS YOU EVER HEARD! Its 30 YEARS OLD, and would put it up POUND FOR POUND against ANYBODYS lyrics today.
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This might be my favorite Rakim joint. I was like 7 years old glued to this video
Rakim is the grandfather to today's rap flow, before Rakim no MC was flowing like this. I been saying this for about10 years, Chuck D even said this on the Bird app
Here's what most don't know. those 1st 4 albums. Rakim said himself he produced 80% plus of it by working with the engineer and making his visions happen. He played a few instruments. His aunt was the legendary Ruth Brom. The God Emcee is that for a real reason. I appreciate you youngins that tuned in. This is where many Emcee's learned from. No father to Rakim's style. He can't be moved.
My dudes!!!! Keep them Rakim reactions coming🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
The next reactions y’all gotta do is Rakim’s
* Let the Rhythm Hit EM🔥🔥🔥🔥
* Microphone Fiend🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
* As the Rhyme goes on🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
I still get the chills when I hear this song
Best rap lyracist EVER! great reaction!
Lyrics of Fury is mind melting
Facts
The way Rakim attacks that track is mesmerizing!
Definitely need to check out Lyrics of Fury(a fortified freestyle)a definite classic
Eric B. and Rakim were the BEST of all time! Sick flow, lyrics, delivery, etc.!
They're still the best, no-one has came close since.
G O A T
I forgot I recommend listening to Erik B is President
That was banging in everyone’s trunk during the summer too.
All his songs are timeless classics
No mumbling rap here! Respect to the god not one curse word! He change the style of rap he wasn't doing it hip hop the Kurtis blow and all that he came out with his own his flow is so sick style.
It is not held in as high regard as some of his other masterpieces but Casulties of War is Rakim at his storytelling best and it also has a prophetic feel because of the subjuct matter . Keep growin fellas
This is a clap to MC Brooklyn Goat BIG DADDY KANE they had a beef with each other since 1986
I have put my earpiece in and listened to this song while in my drift car. I have always loved their music , but this shit is hard AF in a race car on a track at 6000 rpms!
cannot get any iller than "Follow the Leader" straight up!!
The God MC
“You suddenly see a star, you better follow it because it’s the R” HARD
Rakim 🏆🐐🎯🙏❤
Fun fact......back in those days....Rakim didn't even curse in his rhymes
There are good Rappers. But Rakim is a natural born lyrical multisyllabic rap/poetry genius. There was no FLOW, until Rakim invented it. He's Is the GOAT.
YES! #1. A true rap street artist extraordinaire!
Jewel dropped: RAP is Rhythm and Poetry.
Another 100 years Eric b and Rakin will be remembered❤️
1987. They changed everything. Paid in full
Puts you in the hypnotic state hun, we soaked all this up back in the day
GIm 53 now this song was the first time I was completely amazed by a rapper he was way ahead of his time
me too..First emcee to call himself god..Shocked me when I heard it too.
Keep in mind this is ‘88….. 🤔
@@bufflowsouljah2256 he calls himself God not because he’s emcee. He calls himself God because he is a 5 percenter
You boys just made me proud, I love to see young brothers reaction to Rakim he is the Goat 🐐 in my opinion, lyrically there’s no comparison i appreciate the love
Young Brothers showing love to the old school. I love to see that. Giving credit where credit is due is the sign of a real person. Salute!!
“As the earth gets further and further away planets are small like balls of clay” HARD
I remember at 8 years old, this whole album was played on the radio when it dropped.. Different times..
Eric B & Rakim - In the Ghetto
Eric B & Rakim - Know the Ledge
These two are just as great! Fuckin masterpieces. ✌🏽
That's why they're internationally known 🌐 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Definitely need to react to their joint No Omega!
Real MCs. Today is a drought mumbling ass rappers now. No soil, no real teachings.
Rakim was the MC to bring metaphors and complex flows to hip-hop; before him, rap was much simpler in structure and vocabulary. Rakim, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, and Big Daddy Kane were like the Four Horsemen of that era.
I'm going to give you ten:
1. Eric B & Rakim/ In the ghetto
2. Big Daddy Kane/ Ain't No Half-Steppin
3. Ice-T / you played yourself
4. Nas -Take It In Blood
5. MC Lyte/ Lyte As A Rock
6. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo/ Road to the Riches
7. L.L. Cool J/ I'm Bad
8. Boogie down Productions/ My Philosophy
9. Kool G Rap/ Thug Love Story (from his roots of evil album)
10. Self-destruction
One of my favorite Rakim & Eric B jam of all time 🎶🎤 you gotta hear Let The Rhythm Hit Em by them
Ayo, what’s good fellas. I just ran across y’all channel and I’m feeling it. Word! Being a New Yorker, I want to put y’all on to some fire around that time period. Here we go:
Raking songs: “move the crowd”, “my melody “, “microphone fiend”
Artist - Big Daddy Kane
Songs - “set it off”. “Ain’t no half steppin “, “warm it up Kane “, “ The Symphony”
Artist - Kool G Rap
Songs - “Road to the Riches”, “ill street blues”, “on the run”, “men at work”, “Fast Life”
Artist - Nas
Songs- “NY state of mind”, “Rewind”, “I gave you power”.
When you realize that this was written in 88, it makes it even more incredible
What Rakim and Kool G Rap created is called Mafiaso Rap Rakim influenced everyone from The Notorious B.I.G.Nas Jay - Z The Wu-Tang Clan especially Raekwon The Chef basically any rapper that take the art of rhyming seriously pays homage to The R he originated this style.
Salute you guys for even listening to our old head music
Eric B & Rakim - don’t sweat the technique
This is song you MUST to listen to with out the video. The Video is great with the 1920-1940 Mafia theme but the words don’t match. The video is capture your attention
BUT There is a much deeper meaning if just listen to the words alone. And you “Will Travel at magnificent speeds around the Universe…”
“From century to century, you’ll remember me in history, not a mystery or a memory….”
This is song about The Asiatic Black Man: The Maker, The Owner, The Cream of the Universe.
Look up the 5% Nation or The Nation of Gods and Earths, Rakim is a member, and this song is laced with their perspective and teachings.
Know the Ledge” from the Juice Soundtrack is 🔥by him too.
GOT TO REACT TO: ERIC B. & RAKIM- "LYRICS OF FURY". NO MUSIC VIDEO & NO NEED FOR ONE, THE LYRICS & FLOW HITS YOU THAT HARD!🔥👊🏾
this song is so crazy
🔥
Clearly rapped lyrics and no curse words yet brilliant
By the way, the video cut off a good amount of the original song from the album! Bastards! Why do they do that?!
It's time to Enter the 36 Chambers bros..👐🏽⚔️
Lyrics of Fury and Let The Rhythm Hit'em!
Yall gotta do Dont Sweat The Technique by Eric B. and Rakim! Just a classic!
Ya'll got to a reaction to Big Daddy Kane clap back to Follow the Leader - RAW !..
Ummm... That was not a clap back to Follow the Leader. RAW came out in '87. Follow The Leader came out in '88. HOW?!?🤷🏾♂️😂😂😂
How come people just make up stuff on the internet?
This was a jab at EPMD the Dig Em Dug Em Line was directly aimed at them
You should react to EPMD Headbanger
You Gots To Chill
Your A Customer
So What You Saying
Crossover
The Symphony 2000
Rampage
You gotta do Move The Crowd by Rakim. Powerful
You're first pause was right in the middle of one of the best bars of the entire song...
Imagine this in the streets of NY in the 80's
Love seeing the younger guys hearing the goat.
"i can take a phrase thats rarely heard. Flip, now its a daily word" Facts!
THAT, is the difference between HIP HOP, & Rap. 🖤
Told yall lol flams 🔥🔥🔥
Instant Like 👍
Watch Microphone Fiend by them💯
This was moumental when it dropped. It was so different most couldn't follow.
I couldn't understand it initially because ut was so different:
1. The beat
2. The flow
3. The cadence
4. Rakim even changed his voice
5. The speed of his delivery got faster
This was a ground breaking song. A great song.
The last time I felt like this about a song was "BROKEN LANGUAGE" by Smooth Da Hustler and Trigger The Gambler.
Rakim the goat
Follow the Leader samples "Nautilus" by Bob James.
The Paid in Full Album was basically all James Brown samples. Follow the Leader album moved to basically all jazz samples.
Sorry boys, I’m, late to the party ! I’m a little old but the R was our most respected MC. Good to see the new generation enjoying what we grew up on! Μy no 1 was Lyrics of Fury.
Great reaction! Check out "streets of New York" by Kool g rap
Y’all gotta understand that rappers from that era were expected to drop at least 2 hot 16’s every song…preferably 3. And you couldn’t bite and your shit had to sound original. Rappers were rapping more for other rappers than for the fans. They were figuratively tryna take each others heads off lyrically. This shit is high art.
Rakim Allah invented modern rapping
True master artists. I have the album on wax. It gets played to this day.
I had that CD...
My favorite by them
FIRST, WE THE PAID IN FULL FAMILY , WANTS TO THANK YOU AND YOUR SUPPORTERS FOR THE LOVE.....FED.D
No cussing!
Best rapper of all time f*** what anybody else talking about and the song is one of the illest of all time…….
Rap songs like this is why I can't fully get off into Commercial rap or rappers w/no bars
Nice to see we had back in tha days the best hip hop evah 😉
"A magnum as a microphone, murderin' emcees"
You choose it Slow or Fast Tha R can bring it to ya. His versatility is unmatched and tha beats keep coming. My workouts always consist of at least a half hour of Tha R.
If like bars from Rakim, Listen to the "lyrics of Fury"
You like that, check out the 18th letter and holy are you
MASTERCLASS! But they cut parts of the song off on this video! The album version has the correct, original length.
These young cats aren’t hip hop lovers they just love their generation
yo lol rakim got them boys in a trance lol thats the power of hip hop! lol
Great reaction fellas!!!🤟🤟🤟
How about some biggie N word bleed 🔥 🔥🔥
Top 5 MC ever!!!
Best rapper alive and GOAT
THE GOD MC. The first rapper to call himself god...More Rakim..I like yal reaction...React to Rakim - The Mystery ( Who Is God)
Nas - N.Y State of Mind next!
3:00 to 3:19 love the imagery from the wordplay