rakim 1987-1992 appreciation

[Rakim Allah]

No more props I.want property in every borough nobody be stoppin me because I'm thorough

Just lookin at that line...dude knew how to master poetic devices

 

[ManBearPig]

so good that had to bite

 

[Rakim Allah]

so good that had to bite

I remain at the top like the sun!!

 

[Yehuda]

That piano at the beginning







I remember Rakim saying in an interview it was him who made the beats and Eric B really didn't do shyt

 

[TXTrill1]

I'm 29. What's the problem?

I'm 21 bytch nikka and Rakim is in my top 5..you just a lame who dont appreciate real hip hop

 

[spliz]

You could be right...maybe the poster @spliz may know the whole truth since he is acquainted with The God.

But Ra mentioned on his last album that he had setbacks his whole career.

Yea basically he signed off on Eric and Eric fukked him over and wouldn't sign off on him..Eric fukked Ra outta MAD bread...

 

[mson]

I'm 21 bytch nikka and Rakim is in my top 5..you just a lame who dont appreciate real hip hop

Wtf are you talking about prick?

 

[UpAndComing]

ban everybody over 34

Meanwhile, 14 yr old white kids paying a $200 concert ticket to see Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones

 

[spliz]

That piano at the beginning







I remember Rakim saying in an interview it was him who made the beats and Eric B really didn't do shyt

This is true...Eric didn't really do shyt...

 

[scarhead]

Eric B must've been major in the streets. Didn't he make G Rap move to Arizona or something back in the days?

 

[NYC Rebel]

Eric B must've been major in the streets. Didn't he make G Rap move to Arizona or something back in the days?

He was a fukkin goon. Half of his crew were nothing but East New York Brooklyn niqqas. He was mans with the guy that shot Pac at that studio. shyt...I thought Ra was from BK with all the damn Brooklyn knuckleheads he has around him. I remember being mad finding out he was from Long Island.

"I go to Queens for queens and get the crew from Brooklyn."

 

[scarhead]

He was a fukkin goon. Half of his crew were nothing but East New York Brooklyn niqqas. He was mans with the guy that shot Pac at that studio. shyt...I thought Ra was from BK with all the damn Brooklyn knuckleheads he has around him. I remember being mad finding out he was from Long Island.

"I go to Queens for queens and get the crew from Brooklyn."

Haha Damn.

 

[dirty_yo]

I love Rakim's work with Eric B. That minimalist haunting production suited his aesthetic so well. He could make the most tame line sound hard "thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me".

I think he missed a trick when he went solo. I preferred him when he's on that fly get money i am a better rapper than you shyt than the esoteric big production stuff. Oh well artists have to grow and I don't hold that against him.

True legend of the genre

 

[jshani]

They had to sign off for each other to go solo. Rakim signed off Eric and we got this

Eric wouldn't return the favor so Rakim was left in contract limbo for 4 years of his prime.

has anybody heard this shyt? I knew it existed, but damn that looks horrible

 

[the cac mamba]

has anyone ever seen a fukkin picture of eric b with a different expression on his face