Rakim On The Breakfast Club

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I know NYC holds on to dude being the GOAT ...but I've never seen it ....his shyt was always hella boring to me ...in 1987 I was 9 so obviously his stuff didn't appeal to me...but as I got older and went back to listen it still don't hit....to me the best from NYC at that time was LL, KRS, and Kane...plus he didn't last long enough and too many ppl surpassed him quickly.....
 

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I know NYC holds on to dude being the GOAT ...but I've never seen it ....his shyt was always hella boring to me ...in 1987 I was 9 so obviously his stuff didn't appeal to me...but as I got older and went back to listen it still don't hit....to me the best from NYC at that time was LL, KRS, and Kane...plus he didn't last long enough and too many ppl surpassed him quickly.....



That's okay. He's not for you. And his run was just as long as Kane's.
 

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I know NYC holds on to dude being the GOAT ...but I've never seen it ....his shyt was always hella boring to me ...in 1987 I was 9 so obviously his stuff didn't appeal to me...but as I got older and went back to listen it still don't hit....to me the best from NYC at that time was LL, KRS, and Kane....
How do you feel about Nas? Just curious
 

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So you think a guy who they said could have went to MIT and always used big words in his raps couldn't write Summertime
Will Smith is a legend, but his bars and wordplay were never tough or clever .

He got a lot of mileage of the MIT comment, and that helped market him as a "kid friendly, suburban" rapper.

He said in an early interview that he once wanted to apply to MIT...and it got twisted into "he turned down a scholarship to M.I.T. to pursue his rap career".
 

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They should have done this interview later in the afternoon his energy was so low lol.
Ra does notoriously bad interviews. Because his music was so powerful, I don't think he ever did many press runs to sell albums or tickets for shows . and you can tell.
count the number of times ctg has to remind him to move closer to the mic.


they should have made an exception and had a clip on mic attached to his hoodie

*that ACG hoodie is tough,btw
 
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