Eric B. & Rakim - Microphone Fiend
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2009
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Music video by Eric B. & Rakim performing Microphone Fiend. (C) 1988 Geffen Records
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White guy here, from Alabama. 51 y/o; 70’s and 80’s kid. I knew nothing about hip hop/rap, but when I heard Eric B and Rakim, I was hooked.
Music is universal
When did you hear it? Just curious.
You were hooked because this is the best rap you will ever hear. RAKIM was the definition of Hip-hop. He brought it to another level. Alot of rappers that came after were influenced by RAKIM. You can hear it in their music. One of the best legends ever.
@@josephcanales-pb3ip Eminem speaks on Rakim…..
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@@josephcanales-pb3ipJay-Z speaks on Rakim…..
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No cursing. No N-word. No calling women out their name… just PURE LYRICS!!! DAMN I miss this music!!! 🤌🏾
well, to be fair, he talks about drugs and heroine in this.....
K RINO, Houston Tx,try it,i think you will like it
Facts 👌🏾
@andrewtheworldcitizen he compares his addiction to hip hop to drugs ..nothing more
Masterpiece!
Rakim. The greatest American Muslim to ever touch a mic. He is what I wish all Muslims were like.
2024 and I still listen to Rakim and get chills whenever I hear Microphone Fiend... And I'm 52 years old.
his rhymes are pure wisdom, no cursing just plain wisdom in every sentence. I hope he is part of the museum of hip Hop in the Bronx for 2024.
The greatest MC that ever lived.
Facts ❤
Krs one enters the chat
@deryckcumberbatch3629 it's close. It's close. But the Goat is Ra
Hip Hop purist here......loved our music without guns, misogyny and violence against our own people. 70's baby here!!!
Rakim flow is so captivating that you don't even realize that he's not using profanity in his music. The GOAT
Someone told me that back in the day, I didn't even notice, made it even better.
who cares either way? not swearing doesn't make it better in any way unless you're some christian grandma or something i really don't get what your point is
@@JeffGrubb1010 Went completely over your head I see. What do you know about hip hop?
Bruh... This song is LITERALLY better than 100% of the so-called hip hop you hear on the radio in 2022.
I have to say this first time I've ever heard this track , but i couldn't fast forward ... its so smooth , it reminds of the first time i fell in love with hip hop as a 6 year old , i love this beat , and the bells/whistles its so dope
Truth!
Cuz they don't make beats like this no more it's bullshit.. I wanna find some one that can take it back for real..
Couldn't agree more mannn 👌👍👏🙌
I agree 100%....most rap from this era is 100% better than today's skinny Jean music
Who's here in 2024 🥋🙏🏽
I’m 48 and I grew up in the Bronx . I was a 70’s baby and a adolescent in the 80’s and a young man in the 90’s .
Some of the greatest eras for all type of music
J Smith im 24 from south jamaica, queens. and being born in 94’, i didnt get a chance to experience this when it came out. thanks to my parents, i was blessed to hear all this 80’s and 90’s music, definitely favor this stuff over most of the current music nowadays. you’re definitely lucky as hell.
facts...right here with you 77
I'm right with you J from Detroit!!!
Same , Boston Rd,Webster and in Brooklyn, Marcy Ave, they was the best times
I am 50 never be another era like it!!!
No cursing, no chorus, no mumbling, just 99 BARS of flawless lyricism and perfect production… you kids trying to do this needs to take notes!
Exactly...you dont hear the words Bitch or Ni-gger not once... awesome
STRONG FACTS BRO!
FLAWLESS VICTORY!!!!
@@tonyinmiami99 😐bro u cant be saying that stuff
@@tonyinmiami99 ye you def not goin to heaven 💀
E - F - F - E. - C. - T., A Smooth Operator Operating Corectly.....They don't call him DA GREAT RAKIM for nuthin....PURE GREATNESS !
My son is 22, he thinks trap is the s***, I told him, sit down and listen to this from pop's era...the real deal...
Trap came up in the 90s
Also not his Generation
So what did he think?
Make sure you tell your kids that this is what real Hip Hop is.
Oh I will lemon I will lmao
@@tekvsouvi😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 CV
Great comment right here.
its funny you say that, i know song well, but it came on my pandora and i was thinking the same thing, this is real hip hop.. what happened to hip hop, its went so down hill...
21 is still GOAT 🔥🔥
This entire Album is a Complete masterpiece ❤
I'm 54..I lived this. Flawless. The Ra is the Goat.
2024 Still a Classic
Microphone Fiend
"I was a fiend, before i became a teen. I melted microphones instead of cones of ice cream"
Fire. Str8 fire. Talent. Real shit.
Lol.... dem not listening 🤣
Me as a 23 white kid: 💃🏽🥳
@@garfieldrussell2481 their loss
GOAT wordsmith
Best verse in Hip Hop!!!
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL!!!!! THE MOST STUDIED!!!!!! THE MOST TALKED ABOUT!!!!!! THE BIGGEST GAME CHANGER!!!!! SIMPLY THE GREATEST PURE LYRICIST OF ALL TIME!!!!!
dabx170 co fuckin sign
dabx170 Rakim,KRS one,and Big Daddy Kane changed hip hop forevermore
+Claude White All are true lyricist
I bought this in 88 , a youngster in England. Paid in full the year before. The PE, Eric B & Rakim one was wild! Kane, Biz , KRS...
Back when Hip-Hop was pure... before it got stepped on by corporate dealers.
"feed me hip-hop and I will start tremblin" Now that's hip-hop!
this line gives me chills bro
It's connected to the Gremlin line before it. In the Gremlins movies, the would turn evil and violent if they got hit with water.
I’m 52 years old. This brings a smile to my face
You are just about the same age as me. I know that you remember when "PAID IN FULL" first came out. The album should go down as the one that changed HipHop. A lot of rappers have RAKIM 'S style in their music. To me there are 3 songs that took HipHop to the next level. The first was : " The Message". The second was: " Sucker MC". and the third was: " Dead Presidents".
"After 12..I'm worst than a Gremlin... Feed me Hip Hop & I start trembling". BARZZZ!!
RAKIM: To sound so hard yet to have such intelligent lyrics and still be so harmonious. 🫡
4 minutes & 18 seconds of straight octane 🔥🔥🔥
This isnt just pure this is lyrical artistry this is lyrical insanity of a humanely humble intelligent brain. Rakim is by far the benchmark when it comes to black excellence and hiphop/rap. Hes simply just the greatest he should get more credit but hey thats the price of not selling your soul good job Rakim.
The most lyrical rap record in music history. Rakim made other rappers raise their game when it came to rhyming.
I'm 43, Pac and Biggie are nice but THIS Brother here and Chuck D SPIT some real 🔥🔥🔥🔥, before the 90's.
💯💯💯💯
Believe day, I'm 45 myself.
I don't know how many turntables I messed up fucking with this song
FACTS!!!!!!!!
The REAL GOAT !
Rakim is an emcee for Emcees and an intelligent audience.
4 minutes of straight bars and not one curse word. He your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.
Big Facts... Its documented 💯
He said hell tho 😳
ATC it’s in the bible
Riannaa TV it’s a joke
ATC i know lol
microphone fiend is exactly what Rakim is....👇
The man that changed a culture.
No one can take him off the top of my hip hop list
Absolutely 80$,90$ was the creme of creme of hip hop music; everything was hitting like Mike Tyson....
So..............for 2 minutes and 25 seconds we got PURE GENIUS!
These are some of our greatest pioneers of hip hop. Why is there not a damn movie about the emergence of Eric B and Rakim !!??
A movie about the emergence of Hip- Hop is a great idea, the Golden era 80's, no era can match the 80's!!!
Right. We need an Eric B & Rakim biopic 🤲🏾😷🔑
@@jamesmoore9636 I'd say mid 80s to about 94 95ish is golden era
@@MusicPhene17 you got that👍
They are the standard!
I',m 54 from Montreal Canada and this song remains epic, new style, incredibly innovative, got a ton of attention. I feel fortunate to have heard it when it initially launched.
The last of the old school greats. Rap changes right after them once more, ushering in gangsta rap. Rakim and Eric were around when it was about the art form more than a hood or tough image, or any clout.
wyandanch, roosevelt, freeport, uniondale, hempstead stand up!! this was our time!
"I wrote the rhyme that broke the bulls back if that slow em down I carry full pack" CLASSIC GOAT SHIT
Fully agreed
All this seriousness and no mention of guns or women and no cursing .... true talent
You ain't even lyin
Rakim made hip hop hard he was nice.
He did but not excessively
@Corey Mason lmao he said this right at the time i was reading your comment, just on time
So blessed I was around in the 80's hip hop. I was only 5.
THE GOD IS IMMORTAL!!! Salute to the 18th Letter!
He kicked a hole and jetted to become the greatest to ever do it. Kane is still looking for the plug
Rakim is the GOAT!! Dude was dropping bars with ZERO curse words and it still hits hard. 👊👊👊👊
No booties popping, no strippers, nothing but b- boys Mcs poetry telling his story #1
💯💯💯💯
Oh yeah!
I feel that 💯
yknight. Yo. Word.
So true. These guys had talent and they all had their own style and sound.
Teenager in the 80's. Fun doesn't even begin to describe it. Swear to God.
They'll never know how good it could of been and how much they give up in this new era.
And we didn't know how good we had it.
2024
This God MC was ahead of his time...31yrs later he sounds better than these new rappers/MC's.
I literally refuse to even hear what's happening in mainstream currently :') it's enough that my ears get auditorially assaulted in stores. It actual feels like mental pollution. It's no wonder ppls psyches tend to be absolutely trashed. The things that are being ingested/consumed..
Facts
U could also say everyone else was behind!!!!
You cant call this kids these days rappers/Mcs
That crap they make today is pop rap.. no heart in it.. its embarrassing
Shout out to anybody under 25 listening to this. We should be proud of ourselves.
No matter how much shitty music gets made present day, its comforting to know I have generations of great music behind me to listen to like this
13 actually
13
We need 2 save rap
3
Rakim is SIC 4 this1..... Literally still better than any new MC today
I can actually remember to this day where I was and what I was doing when this joint dropped... watching a UK music show '88 called Behind The Beat (BTB) and recorded the show playing this joint and replayed the song to death after recording and wore the tape out... CLASSIC!
Amazing how this still holds up in 2023. Beat and lyrics are impeccable
It's been said to death, but the rap music of today doesn't come anywhere close to these classics. The decline in quality is shocking.
You can put any number higher than the "2"s and it'll be true:):)
Rakim ran this whole track, no hook, no singing, no skits in the middle, just str8 bars
Young sensei 🔥🔥🔥
True, but this track is ahead of it's time (or at the very least, timeless) in the mix/production. Hip Hop nowadays is so 'dated' (they just all use this obnoxious synth backing tracks)...while Eric B used (and performed LIVE) all these crazy mixing and sampling (awesome FAT/PHAT drum samples from the HUGE reverb-ish drum sounds of the 30-60!s) techniques that people try and emulate (poorly) via computer program, nowadays.
It's weird, I find (even though the Rap genre is now the official biggest seller, as of 2017) the real golden age of Hip Hop was in the 80s and 90s. It's F'ed up.
But i'm thinking music is like fashion....what was cool 20 or 30 years ago, WILL be again.
Young sensei facts👊🏿👊🏿
Young sensei look it up Rakim did most of the beats. Most people don't know that. Eric B was just the front money that got them on.
faseforeal Right! Eric B didn't even like this kind of hip hop. He likes the booty shaking music and that's I think why they split.
" RAKIM" Was/ Still is The God of Emceeing.
I'd argue this is the best rap song of all time
A true lyricist. Every word is enunciated and pronounced as should be. Unbelievable…I grew up in the late 80’s and Rakim was running things.
This is 1988, at the height of the Crack epidemic. The way he takes the bleak image if being a 'fiend' and turning it into his love for the microphone is pure artistry. #namaste
That point is kinda undermined by the fact that he said that he'll shoot someone if he couldn't get on the mic.
Excellent reference and on point. We could walk out the door ever day and see the relentless, inescapable power of addiction.
Flipped a term fraught with endless tragedy and horrors into one of the greatest songs ever made and a thing of beauty
A master of his craft.
Some niggas just don't know. 🤷🏽♂️💨
Legendary the best rap song of all time imo
These men of God is amazing men this our life growing up on the old ones who are new in our life and God is with them because he new there lives will be legendary that they truly trust him in there success not in money this why they are recognize received loved and appreciated thank you the baby boy remember we loved this your son Eric B And Rakim your brother this a beautiful video Amen ❤
Almost every rapper should give thanks to this emcee. The God Emcee
The goat rakim best of rap group of all time jamming 2023
This is what a timeless MC sounds like this will be heat in 3000
Forever The Greatest 👑🎧🎤
DYNAMIC SOUNDS NEVA GET OLD, THEY BECOME LEGENDARY. 💯🎵👍👌
Even though Tupac is my favorite rapper I have never heard nobody break it down like Rakim
Arguably the greatest hip hop track ever. The definition of an MC
Oooh... but what about 'My Melody'?
Have you seen or heard don't call me brother dark man X and the 18th letter
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 oh my god.. don’t make the debate harder man please 🙌🏽🔥🔥🔥
No doubt. And also one of the most influential.
Just RIDICULOUS wordplay! 30 years later & I can quote every word & still get as hyped as I was the 1st time I heard it. Even mote impressive is the fact that this is Slow Flow Rakim & he was THE MASTER of it. Then you compare this to Lyrics of Fury or Follow The Leader where he was rapping a thousand miles a minute & completely rewrote the rules on that too. NOBODY (Not Hova, BIGGIE, Nas, etc etc etc) is on this level. He is the GOAT by a mile!
Always and forever 💯 the God mc
I couldn’t agree more.... Rakim is still one of the coolest dudes to ever walk the earth......what Hendrix was to the electric guitar & Tool is to alternative/metal/prog, Rakim is to hip hop,he was just sooooo fuckin good 🤘🏻
God MC
Damn you took the word right out of my mouth!!!! I'm sorry Jay can't even handle this...To me him and LL CANT BE TOUCHED
agree
These bars was raw, and most ppl didn't know , he took shots at Big Daddy Kane.. One of my greatest rap songs ever.
He's called the God MC for a reason!!
If you don't get chills when you hear this song you're "Dead" plain and simple!!
For real
As of Mexican American growing up in LA I idolized Rakim. The flows the bars are still cold and will live on forever.
K paza raza
Chingón
Me too
KDAY, all day!
Horale pinche carnal!!😂😂😂😂
@@josenavarrete1155 😂😂😂😂😂😂 chingon
He was like a time traveler from another dimension with his skill. Unmatched then and today.
Lyrical genius
Unbelievable that this was released in 1988.
Rakim was lightyears ahead of his time.
This why Rakim is one Best Ever. He drop bars like no one that came across over the years.
Rakim is the best. Guru 2nd
Rakim is the G.O.A.T.!
He got more bars than a jail cell
Eh big daddy Kane
@@damianclarke8056For me, the R, then Nas…. my list stops there ✌️
No sexually explicit lyrics, no excessive cursing, reference to drug use, reference to women as b*****, or brothers as n******, or excessive materialism.......but still one of the greatest hip hop tracks of all time.
Don't tell me it can't be done.
blakdog90 Yup. Rakim did it with class. I loved this guy. I wasn't into his religious philosphy but nonetheless he was freakin' awesome!
blakdog90 No repeat chorus or anthem songs, just keep rhyming and writing.
True bro. He kept it real,he hardly ever cussed. He still sounded just as good as the best. He didn't cuss in general. On any of his songs, u never heard any of that. That goes to show you that you don't have to cuss to sound dope as an MC
blakdog90 Thank you!
blakdog90 "It can be done but only I can do it" Rakim
The Dynamic Rap Duo that did it with stylish and profiling fashion with no guns, no swearing, no sexual content, no crime, Just pure stylish hip hop music with a School Boy Crush sample. Take notes kids if you want to become a hip hop artist.
every word was wisdom
This album can get put on right now and still pop!! I played it at my wedding and people went crazy!
My fav album. Thanks, friend.
He is the greatest rapper of all time .do ur math.he set d template with dat first album
So it's an Abomination dat OutKast given dat when original boom bag comes from.newYork.nonsense shit
Wish I got an invite to the wedding
Niceeeee
Rakim gives Hip Hop a good name, always has, always will...
ShoNuff
Ladies and gentlemen, this is one verse. He was probably 20 here. He was, and still is the greatest emcee we have ever witnessed.
'After 12, I'm worse than a Gremlin. Feed me hip-hop and I'll start tremblin'"
"I was a fiend!
before I became a teen I melted microphones instead of cones of ice cream
Music orientated so when hip hop was originated, fitted like pieces of puzzles: complicated"
When you actually pay attention to Rakims lyrics, he makes a lot of sense. I love those first few bars. Sets the scene for the track.
Rakim, Rakim! That brotha was not to be played with on that microphone. I'm tellin' you somethin'. And they music still knocks over 20 years later. Add that extra bass to this joint and it's gon thump even harder. #anditsstillallgood
** almost 30 years now
My pops got this for when I was 10 or 11 !!!RIP pops and thanks man!!!..when cd’s first came out!!!..shit I’m 45 and still got it!!!
The real goat son
GOING ON 40 YEARS OLD, AND STILL SOUND LIKE IT WAS RECORDED LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!! STRONG ISLAND STAND UP!!!!!!!!
Yo' after all these years RAKIM is (STILL) that dude.....his music still flows.
Go jam "Long Live The Kings" by Datzilla for no cussing, drug usage mentions, or downfall for the youth! Thanks for inspiring me Rakim!
Everybody from North,South, East,and West knows Rakim is the God M.C.
I'm over halfway to 63 and was 31 when this was bumping in 1988. Loved this in the early days of hip hop. Nice clean rap, with NO profanity used. These were the best days of rap from about 1979 to 1991.
You like Gang Starr?
@@zolixiv Yeah, "Code of he Street" and "Mass Appeal:
Its so dope to know 🙂 Im 35 from Hungary. True Hip-Hop is one of the best things in the world ✌️
That shit still bangs! Not one curse word, one of all-time rap geniuses. Rakim 4 ever.
A song with some of the tightest lyrics ever. And for those of you who don’t know the music in the background, it’s a song called schoolboy crush.
Rakim is the true GOAT of hip-hop
What would you say to someone who says that RAKIM is terrible, especially " MICROPHONE FIEND". And that he is not authentic, can't compare with good rappers and is definitely not in the top 25? This dude says he has crazy knowledge of hip-hop and has better taste in music than I have because I told him that saying Rakim is terrible means your knowledge of hip-hop is in the basement.
Watching this, you realize why Rakim was so huge back in that era, he was ahead of time with his cadence, confidence and word play. He didn't babble, he spoke street and life knowledge.
He was ahead of time, when people were doing "1-2-3-4 Jump on the floor" rhymes
I read in an interview that Rakim was influenced by jazz. I can hear that in his rhyming flow.
You said 1 simple word that'a vastly overlooked CADENCE. I can tell from that word alone you KNOW hip hop.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 he has a family of Jazz musicians.
@@KingBranBDM Thank you for Speaking of one of the GOATS in present tense... This has been and always will be on my play list since the 80's and will ALWAYS be turned up to 💯🎼🎶💪🤘
Flow
Straight lyrical genius
Nobody in Hip Hop got RA swag NO...BOD...Y!!!!
Anthem of my life since 88 at eleven years old!!!!!!💯 This new generation could never fuck with the GOD MC!
This is "REAL" Hip Hop ladies and gentlemen.....and definitely to the Millennials!!!
@@pepperhead5557 with the exception of M&M ... Those other two were before the Millennial Area👍
@@pepperhead5557Lol No. That is Gen X ?
Why are you millenials always claiming everything Our GenerAtion ?
Like seriously ? All three are also Gen X ?
You were children
NOT The Generation
What The Fuck ?
This is nothing Millenials
50 years old, was a fan of Eric B and Rakim in the beginning, still am today. I listen to this fondly. This to me in real hip hop. 80s and early 90s, can never be duplicated.
Yup just turned 49 was listening to Eric b and Rakim from the beginning
Im 44 n this is still cold af 🎤
@@bazglsgw1208 I keep telling people... Rakim is the greatest MC in hip hop. Even Eminem looks up to him. Some may not like me mentioning Eminem, but you cannot deny he has talent.
@@humanblacklight Yeah lyrically Eminem is very good but i dont like his hook game anymore some of his cheesy chorases n hooks annoy me but hes a great mcee no doubt.
@@humanblacklight Em also looks up 2 Masta Ace hes one of Ems favorites listen to Aces cadance in Accnowlage n he sounds like Em but Ace been here since the 80s he prob gave Em the title for his Slaughterhouse group.
Middle aged white guy here. The first time I heard Eric B & Rakim I was blown away. I was raised on hard rock but this was the shit. Classic! 👍
Did your parents raise you on Hardrock?
I’m only 11 and listen to this. Legends.