Rakim completely changed the trajectory of Hip Hip. People used used to rhyme, then Rakim came in with a flow and the game has never been the same! The Big Bang of MC's!
@GeovanniOrozco-wf9ny you can say that but Kool G never had the impact on lyricism like the R. Just even the notion of being a God into the spectrum. Kool G was great but Rakim created a culture!
No judgement here brother I'm a 43 year old white boy from Australia and this gives me full body goosebumps. I feel this like I did when I was a little kid listening to Paid in Full❤👊
The gods are uniquely identified with New York and it leaked into the essence of hip hop. The world has to acknowledge that and pay homage, but they don't really overstand.
I knew this new RAKIM track would be hard!!! Kurrupt & Master Killa was able to inject their style so organically. RAKIM just gave us another song to play constantly.
[Intro] Be now, be ill, be down, be real Yo, they used to always ask me What I wanted to be when I grew up I said yo (Be now, be ill, be down, be real) [Verse 1: Rakim] A fashion dripper, Carhartt, Timberlands, contests Opps flop, I stomp from gimmickless Average spitter, the response, my competition Get them all next, you're blessed like when the Fonz'll twist his lip Lab hitter, progress, the God's magnificent Patterns differ, context, my compositions hit Fathom quicker, conquest, a conscious lyricist Atom splitter, complex, it's quantum physics Since they put my melody on a cleverly poem My celebrities still legacy, and 'gevity long Design flows in binary codes, no matrix Light-speeds, time could be froze, no spaceships Walkin' paradox, I made them all believers Ship the paradigm, even time, alter features On the mic, it's either too three or not too three In life, it's either to be or not to be [Chorus] "I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone" ("This is what it's all about") Be ill ("I-I-I'll be flooded with ice") Be ready to reveal ("I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone") B-B-"Be all I can be, and more" ("Finishin' touch") Be boys and girls ("Be now, be ill, be down, be real) [Verse 2: Kurupt] My abilities, to create mass delusion Headaches, heartaches and mass confusion Contusions, I give out for free Five at a time, one for two and two for three (For three) Confucius, verbally abusive Intuitive, a gift I give (I give) Look what I'm givin', the voice of the unforgivin' In time, I might get forgiven for my crimes (Crimes) Lay the body down and lace 'em with lime You throw the beat on and I'ma lace 'em with rhymes Helter skelter, this pure love bizarre Masta Killa said we gon' rock with the R (With the R) You are who you are and we shine like the stars (Like the stars) Sharp as a thumbtack, you jump in my car, let's go [Chorus] "I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone" ("This is what it's all about") Be ill ("I-I-I'll be flooded with ice") Be ready to reveal ("I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone") B-B-"Be all I can be, and more" ("Finishin' touch") Be now, be ill, be down, be real [Verse 3: Masta Killa] I walked on the sea of existence And stepped on the shore of the moment The father of civilization, I own it The maker of my daughter, creation One Nation Under a Groove Before the two virtues of seamless scriptures Woven with the threads of wisdom This picture of my life intelligence, stimulates life and matter So eloquent, a thought so delicate Yet weighs more than elephants, strokes of excellence Extracted from the elements, a powerful calmness I'm always armed and equipped with what I bomb with A sweet flowin' river of mad facts, the actual Calculated pressure applied, hits are tactical Masterful mind Catapult self beyond the measure of time The resilience and brilliance of Kurupt Young Gotti Rakim the Godbody with the wise Chief Jamel Irief when I speak Raisin' Universal Flags up high, say peace (Peace) [Chorus] "I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone" ("This is what it's all about") Be ill ("I-I-I'll be flooded with ice") Be ready to reveal ("I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone") B-B-"Be all I can be, and more"
Rakim THE G.O.A.T. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE the fact that LA and NY Mcees getting together. I wish Biggie and Pac could see this!!!!!!
"Slow your roll, like your legs was broken Who's joking? Rakim never joked, so why should I loc? And that's my idol, check the vital rhyme flow though Running 'em like Flo Jo, stranded on Death Row" -Kurupt
I think Rakim can bring hip hop back to its greatness..I think the people have been starving for so long for that original sound and are Finally mentally ready to accept hip hop once again
These lil dweebish kids don't have the mental capacity to understand anything that's not talking about killing and $ex! This is a nice wish, but sadly the industry wants music to stay ignorant and destructive, because you know who is in charge!! ( 👿) 🤷🏾♂️😔
Rakim still has it. Hope to hear more new music from him. Glad to say I met Rakim and took a pic with him backstage at BB Kings in Times Square for his 50th Birthday. The God MC is cool.
Only Rakim could pull a bunch of legends and emcees vocals that have passed on. Hyped for the album he really grabbed the best in his lifetime to dance
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Rakim completely changed the trajectory of Hip Hip. People used used to rhyme, then Rakim came in with a flow and the game has never been the same! The Big Bang of MC's!
He's the original Rap God 💯🔥
actually g rap changed it not rakim.
@@GeovanniOrozco-wf9ny wrong. I was there when it occurred in 86. Rakim was pre G rap.
@GeovanniOrozco-wf9ny you can say that but Kool G never had the impact on lyricism like the R. Just even the notion of being a God into the spectrum. Kool G was great but Rakim created a culture!
LL Cool J Big Daddy Kane MC Lyte as well
Let’s give Masta Killa his flowers. He definitely destroyed this
Not really him and kurupt are not keeping up with rakim energy. Rakim should of done this song by himself
Masta killa brought it home but kurupt slaughter this🤌🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🏾🙌🏾
@cjay5643 damn bro you 🥶 cold
Master Killed this sh!t
@@aubrey6834429 being honest kurupt and masta killa rapping to slow compared to rakim.
NO MUMBLING
NO CUS WORDS
REAL RAPPING
YES I NEEDED THIS
THANK YOU
RAKIM
KURUPT &
MASTA KILLA
🔥🔥🔥
For real. This is RAP !!!!!
Don't forget the cuts and scribbles on the decks
Word. Anybody who feel like they gotta curse in their lyrics lacks the mental capacity to express themselves intelligently and eloquently.
@@chrisg1772yessir, and done by the R himself no less 💪🏾
@@TucsonHipHopHeadSince78? Eminem lol j cole, kdot. Get off your high horse cheech 🤣
This is Hip Hop. Thank You, We Were Starving, 2024 Rakim Brought The Lion’s in!
Facts
Anything else is uncivilized...
They came exact & correct #7
@@PangeaTonezPeace GOD
The god Rakum wrote most of hid debut album between 14 and 16. He was a child prodigy before our eyes.
Two 56yr olds holding it down on the 🎤🎙️ The God Rakim&The 🐐 LL
I used to listen to Rakim when I was 63, and now I'm 17. This will forever be a classic.
fire comment lol 🫡
😁😁💯💯
Yes, dope comment. I question your math but I share the sentiment!
Is it just me or is anybody else anticipating the hell out this album?!!!
It’s an album?
Yep
A few years
I shed a tear to this, go ahead judge me lol 😢👏🏿
It's truly the difference between "RAP" and the love for "Hip hop"
No judgement here brother I'm a 43 year old white boy from Australia and this gives me full body goosebumps. I feel this like I did when I was a little kid listening to Paid in Full❤👊
@@accradataThat’s what’s up Mate! Respect! 👊🏿
😂😢😅
There are a few good jams like this that make me tear up sometimes I even cry. Frequency is something else G
What an honor to see my artwork sit next to the legend Rakim!!!! Peace to Matthew Markoff !
🤩
absolutely needed and on time
Real hip hop is back!!!!! I been missing it!!!!! 1985 kid right here from Louisiana!!!
SOME MEN SPEAK YOU LISTEN, MASTERS OF THE GAME HAVE SPOKEN. STANDARDS SET AND AIN'T NO TURNING BACK
Your all caps button is stuck
Rakim still got it still to this day!
ABOLUTELY ! but , man , he looks tired...
Wow, these two sound good together 🫡
If you don’t know, do your homework. Any time the Gods showed up when Hip Hop was in a dire state, it was bought back to its essence. Actual Factz!
Hip-hop
The gods are uniquely identified with New York and it leaked into the essence of hip hop. The world has to acknowledge that and pay homage, but they don't really overstand.
Y'all dude is bugging. I respect it cause of who it is. But it's alright.
@@Chedbenno in your opinion
@@Chedbennothis track by Rakim homie…your favorite rapper isn’t dropping heat like this at all…Rakim is the best period….NO CAP
BIG UPS TO THE GOD EMCEE. Kurupt and Mastakilla brought it!! Real Hip Hop.
Goosebumps, I got goosebumps, Rakim!! Now that's how you make a re-introduction!
I knew this new RAKIM track would be hard!!! Kurrupt & Master Killa was able to inject their style so organically. RAKIM just gave us another song to play constantly.
Everyone still got it!! Plus the beat is absolute classic... That's what hip hop sound like, mad love ❤❤
Little mumble rap heads, this is real hip hop to its fullest!! Learn
They can like what they like and you like what you like. Why be a dirtbag about it?
Fucking Right💯💯🔥
Word
Tell them GROWN MAN !
FACTS 💯💯💯
[Intro]
Be now, be ill, be down, be real
Yo, they used to always ask me
What I wanted to be when I grew up
I said yo (Be now, be ill, be down, be real)
[Verse 1: Rakim]
A fashion dripper, Carhartt, Timberlands, contests
Opps flop, I stomp from gimmickless
Average spitter, the response, my competition
Get them all next, you're blessed like when the Fonz'll twist his lip
Lab hitter, progress, the God's magnificent
Patterns differ, context, my compositions hit
Fathom quicker, conquest, a conscious lyricist
Atom splitter, complex, it's quantum physics
Since they put my melody on a cleverly poem
My celebrities still legacy, and 'gevity long
Design flows in binary codes, no matrix
Light-speeds, time could be froze, no spaceships
Walkin' paradox, I made them all believers
Ship the paradigm, even time, alter features
On the mic, it's either too three or not too three
In life, it's either to be or not to be
[Chorus]
"I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone" ("This is what it's all about")
Be ill ("I-I-I'll be flooded with ice")
Be ready to reveal ("I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone")
B-B-"Be all I can be, and more" ("Finishin' touch")
Be boys and girls ("Be now, be ill, be down, be real)
[Verse 2: Kurupt]
My abilities, to create mass delusion
Headaches, heartaches and mass confusion
Contusions, I give out for free
Five at a time, one for two and two for three (For three)
Confucius, verbally abusive
Intuitive, a gift I give (I give)
Look what I'm givin', the voice of the unforgivin'
In time, I might get forgiven for my crimes (Crimes)
Lay the body down and lace 'em with lime
You throw the beat on and I'ma lace 'em with rhymes
Helter skelter, this pure love bizarre
Masta Killa said we gon' rock with the R (With the R)
You are who you are and we shine like the stars (Like the stars)
Sharp as a thumbtack, you jump in my car, let's go
[Chorus]
"I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone" ("This is what it's all about")
Be ill ("I-I-I'll be flooded with ice")
Be ready to reveal ("I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone")
B-B-"Be all I can be, and more" ("Finishin' touch")
Be now, be ill, be down, be real
[Verse 3: Masta Killa]
I walked on the sea of existence
And stepped on the shore of the moment
The father of civilization, I own it
The maker of my daughter, creation
One Nation Under a Groove
Before the two virtues of seamless scriptures
Woven with the threads of wisdom
This picture of my life intelligence, stimulates life and matter
So eloquent, a thought so delicate
Yet weighs more than elephants, strokes of excellence
Extracted from the elements, a powerful calmness
I'm always armed and equipped with what I bomb with
A sweet flowin' river of mad facts, the actual
Calculated pressure applied, hits are tactical
Masterful mind
Catapult self beyond the measure of time
The resilience and brilliance of Kurupt Young Gotti
Rakim the Godbody with the wise Chief Jamel Irief when I speak
Raisin' Universal Flags up high, say peace (Peace)
[Chorus]
"I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone" ("This is what it's all about")
Be ill ("I-I-I'll be flooded with ice")
Be ready to reveal ("I'm-I'm-I'm in the zone")
B-B-"Be all I can be, and more"
Rakim is a icon!💯💯💯
🔥🔥🔥 I like this as many times as I hear it bless up to real hip hop
The beat is CRAZY... They was spitting like the rent was due damn...real rap
Rakim on the beats and cuts as well. Sounds good man.
Rakim THE G.O.A.T. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE the fact that LA and NY Mcees getting together. I wish Biggie and Pac could see this!!!!!!
We need this Hip-hop tour !
If you don't know Ra you don't know hip hop. From the beginning this brother always been on top.
I disagree
@@djblackshadow22no one cares about what you "disagree" about! FOH!!
@@msolomon1781 stick with ur opinion sick bastard and let others have their opinions
Chorus is super hard
I love you rakim . From iran 🇮🇷 you a legend of real hip hop
Rakim Yonkers 💯✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️
Ra killed it on the track, too. Sticks in your head, makes you want to listen over and over.
And over and over and over
@@omefea8501played like 20 x in a row. "Gevity long"!
And over and over@@omefea8501
"Slow your roll, like your legs was broken
Who's joking? Rakim never joked, so why should I loc?
And that's my idol, check the vital rhyme flow though
Running 'em like Flo Jo, stranded on Death Row" -Kurupt
Masta Killa went BALLISTIC!! 🔥
Rakim will never lose his flow. the GOD been rhyming since reagan was president!!!
Big FACT'S 💯...He's still ahead of his time. Rakim is just too different from other MC's. His flow and vocabulary separate him from the other 21 MC's.
The other 21 MCs! Ha ha!!! Real talk bro
None of them missed.
#rakim #kurupt #mastakilla
"walking paradox I made them all believers/
shifted paradigm even time alter features/"
Rakim God MC 🎤🛐🔥
🔥🔥🔥
RAKIM LOVE THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES GOD SON...KRUPT SLAYING EM...SHINE BRIGHT FOR THE MOST HIGH LOVE THE HIGH VIBRATIONAL REAL MUSIC
I think Rakim can bring hip hop back to its greatness..I think the people have been starving for so long for that original sound and are Finally mentally ready to accept hip hop once again
These lil dweebish kids don't have the mental capacity to understand anything that's not talking about killing and $ex! This is a nice wish, but sadly the industry wants music to stay ignorant and destructive, because you know who is in charge!! ( 👿) 🤷🏾♂️😔
Damn this track is so good!!
Ra'spec to the Microphone Fiend from Zambia, Africa.
Respect.
Rakim, greatest lyricist of all time, no debate.
Wow!!
Whole track fire….Peace to the gods
Reel artist don't die, we multiply. G.O.A.T.👑🛸
feels good to breathe some fresh air after years, thx - one luv 🙏
🎉❤
Higher Infinite Power
Y'all new age rappers aren't even close
They couldn't be close to him if they were standing next to him I feel you my man tell it like it is bro
Facts
Rap need at least 2 new charts . Like “ classic rap ‘ “ pop rap “ and regular rap charts . Its time .
Can't nobody f with Rakim straight savage on the mic. Stand up Kurupt and Masta Killa. REAL SOLDIERS. Salute
This goes HARD AF
"Walking paradox I made em all believe this. Shift the paradigm, even time alter features" 🔥
0:32 the flow of Rakim is too powerful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
How the fugg is this happening in 2024 I’m so here for it
Rakim your rhyming scheme couldnt b copied by about a 9 man miming team,
Diamond in the rough shine the gleam,
4ever a feane
Kurupt one of my favorites
Rakim still has it. Hope to hear more new music from him. Glad to say I met Rakim and took a pic with him backstage at BB Kings in Times Square for his 50th Birthday. The God MC is cool.
These are real lyricists, unlike those mumble rappers who sound like they're having a stroke 😂😂😂
❤ sick yo
❤❤❤❤❤
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
THE GOD
Blessing will keep it real good Angel 😇 ❤❤
This track is so dope man Woahhhh...ohh yeah 🎤
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Rakim and the crew reppin' that Sergio tacchini
Peace we used to Rock those in the 80’s I had a few of those..The Gods..
Straight from the God MC himself "BE ILL". Timeless Hip Hop 🚀
These three will wipe the floor with u on the mic...no if ands or butts..
Kurupt 🔥
Rakim should have or a million views.
My Soul needed this.
Rakim and LL are back killing it on the 🎤🎙️!!!
Legend Rakim!🔴⚫️🟢✊🏿✊🏿
Goat the leader
Rakim will always be the god of all mcs big ups from 🇮🇪 you living legend 👏🏻 🙌🏻 🙏
Esto está caliente 🧨🧨🧨💿
Whats a Goat 2 a God.
Beat too 🥶🥶🥶
Plus all of them cleaned their plates.🫡🫡🫡
Since the 80s Goddam ! I’m just 27 and I listen to the master album 💿… when I be on the mic 🎙️
Masta killa 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fantastic nice one Hip hop pioneers another one classic ✌️😍
💪🏾🙏🏾💯🔥👑
STILL NICE!!!!!🚨🔥🚨🔥. Fire beat and everything!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
This that shit hip hop been missing 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😤
Rakim is BACK!!! Straight up 90s fill hip-hop.
Yoooooooooooooo
This ill
Only Rakim could pull a bunch of legends and emcees vocals that have passed on. Hyped for the album he really grabbed the best in his lifetime to dance
This a masterpiece.
We all here for it hear ! 🤟🏼🔉🔊❤️
Rakim ! This is dope! Salute
Starboy is Respect blessing 😮 for Lord of all levels 😊
OLD MAN STILL AT IT FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB ORIGINAL HIP HOP
🔥🌊
Real Rap Lyricists !!! And the Beat is dope!! 01h:00 A.M and I'm Playing this Sh...t.. 100 times... From Barranquilla Colombia.
Waitin for the 25th to drop.
The God MC himself. Literally the idol of our idols! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Pure unadulterated lyrical dopeness... real hip-hop!!!
God damn yall both went crazy!!😮😮😮