Rakim's flow and vocal performance is/was essentially perfect. He set the standard. His first three albums spawned numerous classic singles. His influence is incalculable.
Rakim as a lyricist could go toe to toe with BIG
His first three albums go toe to toe against Bigs catalog.
Yeah he fell off - so what? It doesn't detract from what he accomplished. And he never fell off on the mic.
It's clearly debatable.
rakim got fire rhyme patterns the patterns ra got are far better etc
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 took the ego-a-geatics
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
cheese (A) with (B) hit (B) trees (A)
biggie ain't never flip no rhyme patterns like that
