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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.

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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]

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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.

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Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 4:40pm On Nov 10, 2014
acenazt:
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.
Lil wayne

You discredit Rakim Allah for lil wayne? #Shocked

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Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 4:44pm On Nov 10, 2014
kr0ne:
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]
Ra is a beast. Damn!
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Lumyboi(m): 4:57pm On Nov 10, 2014
acenazt:
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.

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:
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.

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:


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
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:
Lil wayne

You discredit Rakim Allah for lil wayne? #Shocked
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.

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Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by kr0ne(m): 5:21pm On Nov 10, 2014
acenazt:
I was Grading em on Lyrical Content. y'all know Nas n Jay z are Lyrical geniuses.


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
PHYSICIAN-GENERAL's WARNING: "Guess who's back" is highly likely to cause dizziness or trigger a TIA (transient ischemic attack). Do not play while under the influence!
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.

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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:
Any direct link to download Rakim's song? Me don check online tire Oº°ºooOº°ºoo. I want to listen to real MC
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:
Any direct link to download Rakim's song? Me don check online tire Oº°ºooOº°ºoo. I want to listen to real MC

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:
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.
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!

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Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 7:12pm On Nov 10, 2014
007Bruce:

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!
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:
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
i dont care about your thoughts, but decieving people with them aint good!
You almost convinced krone grin with that definition of an mc you gave up there. Haba!
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by acenazt: 7:20pm On Nov 10, 2014
007Bruce:

i dont care about your thoughts, but decieving people with them aint good!
You almost convinced krone grin with that definition of an mc you gave up there. Haba!
na u sabi oh.
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 7:20pm On Nov 10, 2014
acenazt:
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.
Premier league? He achieved god status doin what? ...if not rapping.

Boss, lil wayne and Rakim shouldnt be mentioned on the same thread.

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Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by 007Bruce: 7:22pm On Nov 10, 2014
acenazt:
na u sabi oh.

hehe sharp guy grin
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by 007Bruce: 7:27pm On Nov 10, 2014
Djicemob:
Premier league? He achieved god status doin what? ...if not rapping.

Boss, lil wayne and Rakim shouldnt be mentioned on the same thread.
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

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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 grin
The rhyme scheme is out of this world! Where those people wey dey compare Ra with Em for rhymes self? cheesy
Re: Is Rakim The Greatest Rapper Of All Time? by Djicemob: 7:14am On Nov 11, 2014
JigsawKillah:
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!
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:
Djicebomb, I read that verse several times, mehn grin
The rhyme scheme is out of this world! Where those people wey dey compare Ra with Em for rhymes self? cheesy
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:
He basically rhymed the whole sentence almost to the word level. PureGenuis.
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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