Rakim is the greatest lyraisist of all time. Love seeing the younger generation appreciating greatness
@IbnMurrah4 жыл бұрын
Nas > Rakim
@beetlenut69804 жыл бұрын
Rakim >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> every single rapper existing.
@jaqhs15183 жыл бұрын
@@IbnMurrah man, exactly what i was about to say, nas is just out of this world when it comes to lyricism, rakim comes close but nas is underfeated
@gilly06913 жыл бұрын
Fuggin Flava flav doin the crack head dance! Lol
@gilly06913 жыл бұрын
#1 Rakim #2 Big Daddy Kane
@joeynatts65425 жыл бұрын
Rakimis definitely #1. he is your favorite rappers favorite rapper
@MarcusLB19984 жыл бұрын
Kool G Rap another monster on the mic that never get's mentioned
@BrotherMan19693 жыл бұрын
G Rap was that guy....Facts!!!
@kingme91055 жыл бұрын
Rakim is a Five Percenter Dude you are the dopest father I ever seen in my life !!!
@PacificDark5 жыл бұрын
Your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.
@TS-hw7ro3 жыл бұрын
Your favorites rapper’s favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.
@travisharris54904 жыл бұрын
It would never be another Rakim Legend greatest of all times
@Sukiyaki31744 жыл бұрын
I remember back when Fila was the goal for all the hip hop kids. Nike wasn’t even on our radar. Not even Jordans.
@ksanders2493 жыл бұрын
& E C K Ō
@unique74muzik4 жыл бұрын
Fila was primarily a Hustler's shoe..class of 92
@Bludgion4 жыл бұрын
I’m from NYC and this video was shot in my hood LOwer East Side Manhattan...Lowa Deck for those who know...anyway about those chains...not only were they rockin them in the video...these cats rocked them in the street JUST LIKE THAT...no bodyguards and no lookouts...and Got nothing but love from the streets...that’s the level of GOAT we talkin bout
@Logan-01204 жыл бұрын
I bought Paid In Full twice! Because I played the first cassette until it pop! Peace To The God!
@bignardo954 жыл бұрын
Rakim was a reflection of Brooklyn N.Y. 84-88' East New York. Forte Green. Brownsville. Bed Stuy. Gangstas EVERYWHERE!!!
@Eagles4life2215 жыл бұрын
My dad always has that old head laugh too whenever The God Rakim raps.
@coolb85453 жыл бұрын
That's me with my kids hehehe(old man laugh)
@johnnycruz81234 жыл бұрын
Rah is the GOAT PERIOD. I'm from Bushwick Brooklyn and I remember all the park jams back in the 80's they were Bananas. I'm glad that I was around when everything started I'm truly blessed.
@Unchained743 жыл бұрын
Completely agree, 1000% . Rakim is untouchable. Greatest lyricist ever.
@motoknivesandgunsbyjt3 жыл бұрын
Listen up. I’m from the BX but we moved to PR in the 80s. We were there and we were rockin to the Fat Boys, Fresh Prince etc. Hip Hop was getting comedic, light hearted. Then my boy Carlos came by with this tape in his car. He took out his moms living room speaker and he had it wired in his back seat of the car. He just said to us, “you have to hear this”. We heard that entire tape. We didn’t bob our head, we didn’t speak. We were speechless, frozen, no words. It changed us. It was like an instant rite of passage. We knew Hip Hop, or we, would never be the same.
@MegatronDconZ5 жыл бұрын
Rakim the god. greatest of all time
@RodneyAustin-jl9oj9 ай бұрын
These two are my number 1 rappers of all time, paid in full album is legendary and they are definitely hip hop legends. Move the crowd, Eric B is president, I got soul and the list goes on and on and on💯🔥🔥🔥
@suckafree66875 жыл бұрын
Please react to Eric B & Rakim ‘My Melody’ so people know what he’s talking about when he says “or you’ll be one of those seven MC’s” it’s a lyrical masterpiece!
@richardplunkett25505 жыл бұрын
Greatest verse ever.
@sixx_8084 жыл бұрын
i take seven emcees put em in a line then add seven more brothers, that think they can rhyme well it'll take seven more before i go for mine now thats twenty one emcees ate up at the same time
@moletzao4 жыл бұрын
Wow
@rahshaanmuhammad16713 жыл бұрын
@@sixx_808 BARS !!!!!!!
@mellaroo715 жыл бұрын
from a female old head rakim is definitely top 5. microphone fiend was the jam!!!!!
@teresa86504 жыл бұрын
WHAT!? That's my jam and My melody too.
@gymeni3 жыл бұрын
Another female old head here. Rakim and Chuck D are my personal GOATs.
@mariak64703 жыл бұрын
Rakim "The GOD MC" is the G.O.A.T...period! Absolutely the #1 MC and lyrical master of all time. He set the benchmark for everyone else to try to reach.
@micheldonderwinkel3716 Жыл бұрын
i agree wiith that100% but i think big daddy kane was also the same level but that is my opinion greetz from holland
@gmandallas91975 жыл бұрын
Very rare I hear any as good as Rakim. The flow is just too dam good!
@shakarussanders99114 жыл бұрын
Haha I got a Fila collection myself! I had a pair on today as a matter of fact! Shout out to us 80's kids and 90's teens😄
@TheBadnewzgodz4 жыл бұрын
The man dancing is none other than the great Flavor Flav! From the group called Public Enemy! And this was great to see him in the spirit of unity dancing for Eric B and Rakim. Peace 2da Godz.
@ericmiddleton81374 жыл бұрын
Brought the cassette when it first dropped in summer of 1987
@ericmiddleton81374 жыл бұрын
NYC, NJ, Philly, Det, Baltimore, LA, Oak we all was doing it in the day
@TheBadnewzgodz4 жыл бұрын
I appreciate you building with your father and your uncle. This is what it's all about building and destroying the devils uncivilization. Peace 2da GODZ. BADNEWZGODZ
@whizz5stephen4 жыл бұрын
No foul words!!!!!! Rakim was no joke....the lyrics was dope...
@staciejones40594 жыл бұрын
Yes Dad , break it down
@lucyscott87965 жыл бұрын
Best Era for HipHop✊🏾
@jay072619863 жыл бұрын
Rakim, Kane, g rap, krs, slick rick gave birth to all lyrical styles
@keithbperrin96333 жыл бұрын
Bro I couldn't agree with your list more...these are lyrical gods of rap
@thomastaylor95794 жыл бұрын
when i was in college playing football they would hook us up with jobs for the summer and i would do concert security and was doing this rap festival ,and i did backstage security.so these rappers were on ,(the 2 live crew)and some guy sticks his head out the stage door, and it was Eric B. and he asked me what i thought.and i was a long haired buff white dude ,into heavy metal mind you.and this guy ,with this fat gold rope around his neck ,is asking me what i thought..i was like this is horrible,and he said "don't judge hip hop by what you see here.then he introduces me to Rakim,and i walk them down to the stage .and it was over , the way this guy could put words together and tell a story like he did"' BLEW ME AWAY''... this guy(Rakim) is so smart and intelligent it was amazing .i ended up talking to them back stage ,got their stage passes signed and everything ,and still remember them tell this day .and i was 19 yrs.old and im 51 now.and that's how i got introduced to the ghetto...much respect...
@noname-pd4em4 жыл бұрын
Rakim CHANGED the rap game young cats have no idea how serious this was in 86' ur pops is right Rakim was and is an will always be that guy......
@itsmethatguy3 жыл бұрын
1986 I walked to the record store and bought this tape (green). Never heard anything like it, changed the rap game.
@LGKids4 жыл бұрын
LL is my favorite rapper, Rakim is my favorite MCee! Peace!
@JuggaloSupreme4 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah...he told them fools about the dookie ropes!! Preach! "Remember me, the one you got your idea from?" -Rakim tha God
@twvlvtheog7334 Жыл бұрын
im 19 , my dad was one of the best reggae artists of his city Meknes back in the 80's before he joined the millitary and slowed down , i grew up only on old school music , blues - jazz - golden hiphop - reggae - rock , and everytime i try to listen to this new school stuff , i feel like they got records contracts so easy anyone can rap nowadays and get easy bread , but i read books about hiphop and music in general . And every genre u love , they will always take notes from the past . Why i dont love new shool rap ? Because from rapping and reaching out to people about Government Corruption - Poverty - Drug Abuse - Police Brutality , stuff that we actually suffer from , to rapping about Women - Money - Gangster wanna be , stuff that we dont need to hear about .
@ryuu62054 жыл бұрын
Rakin, the man that rhymes for 4 min on ´´ micro fiend `` without a break. One of the lyrical masters of the late 80´s and the 90´s
@CuttiCal484 жыл бұрын
Eric B the Godfather of Rap! Hands Down!
@g.a.o83074 жыл бұрын
Ahhh😌The God Emcee, Why waste time on the microphone I take this more serious than just a poem Rock from party to party, backyard to yard Now tear it up, y'all, and bless the mic for the gods!
@stevekallio67834 жыл бұрын
Gotta agree with your Pops. Rakim = G.O.A.T., period, end of story when it comes to Hip Hop.. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
@johnniegrayson53215 жыл бұрын
Salute 80s baby. You got it old head. Polo years✌👐
@Momojr22 Жыл бұрын
Greatest Mc period That’s I started rapping fixing up my words without cussing Rakim is my favorite Mc of all time and this song right here classic Never be another lyricism ever again period
@Nick-nm8om2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in Detroit 16 years old when this came out .... Mannnn this shit blew our minds, Eric B & Rakim aren't top rappers, they're a mile a head of the greatest.... Every time I hear this it makes me wish their was a time machine. So I can go back sit on the front porch with my friends listening to this on my big ass Getto blaster till the D batteries ran out.
@thebobbymft58055 жыл бұрын
You should do Paid In Full too !! Classics ! Rakim is a GOD !!
@oldschoolhip-hopheadriorea91782 жыл бұрын
Every car rollin down 7 Mile used to be KNOCKIN this back in 87! I actually bought my tape from PERFECTIONS Record Shop on 7 Mile! #CRACKERA #THEGODRAKIM
@saulyo11125 күн бұрын
Greatest Of All Time!
@dannys44304 жыл бұрын
I dont know what pops name is but i love this brotha he knows HIP HOP!! Dam it feels good to here him its in his blood he cant even control it...worrrrd!! If anybody EVER asks me "Danny what is hip hop ill tell em to watch this video period. No girls NO DRINKS NO BS 💪💪💪
@yesdex59964 жыл бұрын
Rakim and big daddy kane can not forget him
@davidmuse70042 жыл бұрын
Damn, you'll need to do this more and more, great way to school the young folks about the roots and foundation of great music and ghetto stories!!! Ya'll speak real TRUTH BIG UP
@jameslevingston72805 жыл бұрын
PUBLIC ENEMY... BLACK STEEL IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS!!! I'd like to hear your guys review. Please. Thanks!
@reggiemunch5 жыл бұрын
I'm from the D too my guy. I hollered at the God when he was here in April. What's so damn unbelievable is he's so humble and down to earth in spite of the High Praise he receives!!!
@robertcraane79104 жыл бұрын
Zach de la Rocha was a great contender, but I agree.. I love Erik B... he changed my life...
@dannyspencer3094 жыл бұрын
That's right bruh teach the youngins about old school music in general much respect too y'all coming out of Chi- Town!
@town_biznessman3803 жыл бұрын
Take you through triple state darkness- THA GOD EMCEE. On my mama! R.I.P.
@MarcG74243 жыл бұрын
Rakim should be in anyone's top 5 he's a true lyricist. You gotta let the young man hear Follow The Leader
@stinee18774 жыл бұрын
The GOD MC himself every lyricist favorite MC ( Eminem , Nas etc)🔥🔥
@beyondthepage93893 жыл бұрын
Rakeem was a game changer, Rappers pretty much rapped the same until Rakeem came with something different. For example Rakim was the first to rap across verses. I remember my first time hearing "Eric B is President" and thinking.. "what an extraordinary rap style" and everyone said the same. At the time it was customary for rappers to rhyme the first word of a verse with the last word of the same verse (like a traditional nursery rhyme) but what Rakhim did was rhyme the last word of the verse with the last word of the following verse, immediately effecting the way the record sounded. For example in their follow up hit the classic "I know You Got Soul," there's a line where Rakim says.. "So as you sit by the Radio hands on the dial SOON .. As you hear it pump up the VOLUME"). It might not seem like a big thing today, what with there being a million different styles of rap, but back in 1985-86 there was only one style, so it was a quite a radical thing to do. It was like breaking the rules. But once the record blow up, it was as if it gave some long awaited permission for every budding rapper to change up their flow. It was the first time rappers realised that by changing the flow they could effect the sound and flavour of a record in even more interesting ways. Rakim basically gave birth to the modern MC and is one of the main reason why so many still consider him the GOAT.. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZ2grbub1NTem5s.html
@MuscleNMarriage3 жыл бұрын
Yes, teach these youngsters where it all started!!!! 🙏🏾💛
@E091544 жыл бұрын
Eric B probably one of the most underrated DJs! Dude was cold!!
@danielmagnuson99865 жыл бұрын
I grew up with a record player in the house and as a kid I would scratch it to old records of any types of music and I loved the sound it makes when it’s squeaks and then when I got a little older I heard this song and it took my back and it had that original vibe that made me fall in love with old rap
@paris70smith4 жыл бұрын
He's always going to be 1 flat out hands down
@alzate_dev5 жыл бұрын
Rakim is the fav rapper of you fav rapper bro.
@deseanallen61634 жыл бұрын
Classic!!! Rakim also influenced (Buckshot) from Black moon in a big way! Check out the Bootcamp clik, when you can.
@ericfoskey33013 жыл бұрын
Facts Dad.. never will be another mc like THE R... First day of 2021 I'm up listening to OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP..
@jonathankidd72154 жыл бұрын
also when he mentioned Or you'll be one of those 7 emcees , he was referring back to his song check out my melody
@rebelpumpfitness49044 жыл бұрын
FACTS!!!
@brandoncaldwell22634 жыл бұрын
These cats got me over here at work with goose bumps
@amck723 жыл бұрын
Remember Rakim was also taking a shot at EPMD as well.
@LeonidasTheKingOfSparta4 жыл бұрын
I saw this reaction video a couple of times and let me say just one thing. Respect to your dad and the old school rap. Man I feel blessed for being born in the 90s cause, no disrespect for the new school rap, but man. Big up from Italy!
@shareefmuhammud97363 жыл бұрын
💯 k love that the father Is giving his son the game on hip hop
@paulkersey10074 жыл бұрын
This man leading the reaction and the gentlemen in blue know what they are talking about. I appreciate the young man taking it all in.
@edgar17494 жыл бұрын
Dammm the 80’s b 🔥🔥
@Lmaxwell32 Жыл бұрын
Preach!! Old school is the best rap!!!
@tropical99134 жыл бұрын
J. Cole payed respect to 1980s hip-hop in his song January 28th. At the end of the last verse, he mentions Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J, Slick Rick.
@americogalindez91295 жыл бұрын
Pac n Biggie made impactful songs .. socially conscious songs .. but they were not lyricist on Rakim's level dude was insane love em .. not just cause I'm an old head who grew up with him .. his songs stand the end of time... like I said dude was b4 his time
@mongollloyd11015 жыл бұрын
I remember getting to school with this in my Walkman back in the day. I still keep coming back to it regularly. Great vid, thx.
@sahibsubtle5 жыл бұрын
you should do a reaction to "put it on" by Big L
@patelston83883 жыл бұрын
Big L is nee new school.
@imikoimages4 жыл бұрын
RAKIM #1 - THE GOAT like for real bro. THE BEST RAPPR EVER
@jermainelong18434 жыл бұрын
First heard 'Eric B is President' back when I was 12 years old. Rakim hasn't missed a beat since.
@davidconde15215 жыл бұрын
*RESPECT THE CLASSICS!*
@stinkfoot97763 жыл бұрын
Nothing as strong as this.Proper licks.Righteous.No B.S.from this.
@thomastaylor95794 жыл бұрын
dad you are exactly on point....pops do remember Gangstar ?
@remiem-iw7uk4 жыл бұрын
I really liked them and 3rd Bass!
@elbeedee19104 жыл бұрын
TRUUUUUTH! Rakim is the God MC...Top of the food chain...all others take a knee and pay homage...
@kdrobins71145 жыл бұрын
love this channel and what Dad is saying here. Big up to you guys repping the D.
@flash15064 жыл бұрын
LOL Flavor Flavs 1st video....Rakim one of my favorites of all time.
@mfranzusan30142 жыл бұрын
Props to the Sergio Tachini velour track suit! Lol. THAT was baller fashion back in the day!
@robinstigator4 жыл бұрын
Love seein Flava Flav dancin...
@runninrebel15205 жыл бұрын
I’ll say it again, no one fucks with the R, PERIOD✌🏼
@BBroadnax3 жыл бұрын
I'm bringing Fila back. Over the past 6 months I have coped more than 12 pairs of Fila. I got bucket hats, hoodies, t shirts and out of all that I probably spent $500. I get compliments all the time. Fila that joint.
@americanmonsta6584 жыл бұрын
Dad speaking facts!!!
@BrotherMan19693 жыл бұрын
Rakim's lyrics on Mahogany is legendary.....
@robertsimmons27213 жыл бұрын
@ 3:31,funny u said that. Look on the back of J.Prince Art and Science of Respect book. He was a baller back then before RAPALOT. FILA from the hat to the shoes by his Rolls Royce.✌🏿
@v.blakheart29053 жыл бұрын
classic gold....god MC
@coldbeer70464 жыл бұрын
One of my fav’s no doubt fam bless up 👍🏿
@UnleashedGraffixx4 жыл бұрын
People rarely get "or you'll be one of those 7 emcees". That's what made Rakim so dope. He talks to you and over you at the same time. With that particular punchline, he's referring to another punchline from My Melody. He even said "pucker up and whistle my melody"... LOL While I'm here, let me also mention he really did nominate Eric B for president. All these tracks are on the same Paid In Full album LOL All classics. Enjoyed the vid.
@masestanley68135 жыл бұрын
Shhhhhhhh yall brought out the rakim!!!! 🔥
@doubleO164 жыл бұрын
This is the God, its go MJ, Rakim,& Ali like that
@venturaguerreroiii78504 жыл бұрын
Rakims' rhymes are untouchable. The music (lots of jazz) he raps over is as unique as his lyrics. Don't get me wrong, Big Daddy, Pac, Biggie, etc. are amazing but Rakim for me is a cut above. And Rakim didn't need profanity to express himself. His music and intelligence made him the best.