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Davido wouldnt use his real name on NL,dont you guys getit? Its against management and professional policy,Nairaland is a forum not a social network.Plus the OBJ pics is an old pic,OP google better latest pics of davido.

E no go pass say Naija na Number 1

I am michael jackson,just heard about this website too,trying to find my way around it.

My friend wishes are not horses. STFU already.

APC, dumping ground for failed policians since 2014BC

#RecycleBinStateOfMind

I dont view the frontpage these days.As a matter of fact,when i login, i go straight to my followed topics,following and maybe politics and that's it.

What is fine here biko? Na bag of rice?
She snap half pic carry paper cover half of the half pic,una com de halla say she fine.

Plssssss!

Seun:
I no longer have a preference for any party. I've decided that it's ok for GMB to win. We just need to prevent presidential abuse.

So you now have preference for GMB and its fine abi? What are you thinking making comments like this?

APC supporters always summoning seun since 2014AD.Am of the opinion that the admin of this forum are too soft and predictable?

kr0ne:
Djicebomb, you would find it much easier making a camel pass through the eye of a needle than bend Coogar's opinion on this issue. He has deliberately refused to listen to Ra's tracks or at least, read his lyrics.
This is not even a debate, comb around every rap blogs and sites...cats will always place Ra as oga at the top. If Em is a multi king, then Ra is a multi god. To me, he's in no top 2, there's just him in the first spot.
If Eminem must be in my top 5 he'd share that spot with Pharaoh Monche, Cage, Black Thought, Vinnie Paz and Jigga. Talib, Nas, Kool G Rap and Common are his seniors

He(coog) is in too deep on that stan ish to go back obviously,even when hit in the face with the truth.

The bolded are truly his seniors.

coogar:
eminem is in the top-2 and i would put canibus in that top 2 as well. they were the ones that really changed the face of rap. all those whorë worshipping, jewellery idolising and champagne popping rappers are clueless.



rakim gets mentioned cos he is one of the pioneers, but his reign ends there. he would be lucky to be in my top-10. biggie & 2pac easily subdued rakim & when biggie was the king of the entire east coast, rakim was flipping bürgers in macdonalds.

So basically you are saying Em is better than Rakim Allah? Even Em would laugh at that line.Wetin person no go hear for NL,If marley marl and all them real hiphop pioneers were nairalanders they'd be laughing their azz off by now.

No doubt Em is good but we are talking of A man that set the precedence for all rappers before and after him, alive or dead. His flow, delivery, subject matter, content, patterns, syllables, metering (poetic skills) and many more attributes are second to none, especially at a time when no one else was doing it. Its easy for rappers after him to claim greatness but they had a blue print to follow.He set a standard for rap that even todays rappers have not yet matched...and that was 1986.Ra is indeed a true rapgod.

coogar:
kendrick? na yam?
what's kendrick's pedigree? the west side just wanted a face since they have had no ace since 2pac died and they started bigging up kendrick.

kendrick can't even best the slaughterhouse nuccas, let alone eminem. he's nice but abeg, his lyrics don't move me. the best he's done is his BET cypher. at his age, eminem was breaking barriers of race, culture & writing skills.

Am not saying Kdot is the best,i drew my inferences from your analogy.Beside k is just getting started. However,I give Eminem plenty of respect. He is a great emcee.
He's definitely top 5. But if you're trying to compare him to Rakim...sorry, that's a lost cause. Rakim is, at the absolute worst, top 2 emcee.There is not one single individual in the history of any of the four elements of hip hop who has been more influential than him.

coogar:
messi took notes when batistuta was kicking it. ronaldo took notes when figo kicked it. who is deemed greater today in those analogies.

rakim himself said eminem would have been the greatest if he was black. that's enough compliment for a white boy. see beyond the skill colour & recognise the skills.

Kendrick took notes when Em was kickin it.He(kendrick) is acclaimed as one of the best in present time.With your illustration,can we say that Kdot is better than Em?

The New York Times '​ Ben Ratliff wrote that Rakim's "unblustery rapping developed the form beyond the flat-footed rhythms of schoolyard rhymes". While many rappers developed their technique through improvisation, Rakim was one of the first to demonstrate advantages of a writerly style, as with for instance his pioneering use of internal rhymes and multisyllabic rhymes Unlike previous rappers such as LL Cool J , KRS-One , and Run-D.M.C. , who delivered their vocals with high energy, Rakim employed a relaxed, stoic delivery. According to MTiV, "We'd been used to MCs like Run and DMC, Chuck D and KRS-One leaping on the mic shouting with energy and irreverence, but Rakim took a methodical approach to his microphone fiending. He had a slow flow, and every line was blunt, mesmeric." Rakim's relaxed delivery resulted from his jazz influences; he had played the saxophone and was a John Coltrane fan.

The rappers who have used the unique rapping
style employed by Rakim and attribute it as inspiration
include GZA , Ghostface Killah, and Raekwon (from the Wu-
Tang Clan ), Tupac , Nas, Kool G. Rap, Jay-Z , The Notorious
B.I.G. , Eminem, and many more.

coogar:
rakim is nice but eminem is better....

Eminem took notes when Rakim was kickin it.

Iceskidd:
Na rakim lyrics una con show us here? Coogar you don see this thread?

Even coogar wouldnt fault the god MC's lyrics.

kr0ne:
Yes, and as at the time he dropped this Em was nobody

Em was taking notes

ELYMAXiimus:
That dude saying lil-lame is the greatest must be high on cow sh1t...

High on mainstream garbage i guess.

kr0ne:
Djicebomb, I read that verse several times, mehn
The rhyme scheme is out of this world! Where those people wey dey compare Ra with Em for rhymes self?

He basically rhymed the whole sentence almost to the word level. PureGenuis.

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.

Buharism

@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

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.

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!

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

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.

I raised some issues relating to this on my thread.
https://www.nairaland.com/1988412/what-makes-apc-saints-pdp