this might best rakim's most lyrical verse he ever spit

[the rhyme king]

Terror in the styles, never error-files
Indeed I'm known-your exiled!
For those that oppose to be level or next to this
I ain't a devil and this ain't the Exorcist!
Worse than a nightmare, you don't have to sleep a wink
The pain's a migraine every time ya think
Flashbacks interfere, ya start to hear:
The R-A-K-I-M in your ear;
Then the beat is hysterical
That makes Eric go get a ax and chops the wack
Soon the lyrical format is superior
Faces of death remain
MC's decaying, cuz they never stayed
The scene of a crime every night at the show

 

[The Ruler 09]

Hard to say with Rakim cause he has so many amazing verses.

 

[the rhyme king]

Hard to say with Rakim cause he has so many amazing verses.

yup from paid in full to the 18th letter he slaughtered so many verses.

 

[tybo]

Pick any verse from Lyrics of Fury and an argument can be made.

 

[the rhyme king]

Pick any verse from Lyrics of Fury and an argument can be made.

rakim is the master of multisyllable rhyme schemes

look at this pattern flip

that makes Eric go get a ax and chops the wack

rakim could of just rhymed ric with get but he rhymed with ax with that.

making it a multi but the pattern flip it is not the same abab rhyme patten

more like baba rhyme pattern.