Rakim's lyricism definitely still holds up.
Who's The Greatest Lyricist Ever?
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Rakim or The D.O.C
The Masses fail and were jailed in the stomach of a b*stard whale
Who prevailed over the hell of the dragon when he cast his tail?
Since the slave trade in the Trans-Atlantic
Man's been granted grace until Allah's judgement spans the planet
It ain't hard to recognize the enemy
Who you say you are is nothing to me, words prove identity
With typical non-ethereal spiritless individuals
Habitual partakers in Babylonian rituals
Unrighteous acts be flipping you like fraction reciprocals
The nature of the original we abandoned those principles
At a time so integral and pivotal
We need to focus on the God and try not to deviate from being spiritual
The Serpent was in the garden and the light of the sun
Not a snake but a man with the characteristics of one
So understand no matter what you believe
The best way to avoid deception is to know that you CAN be deceived
The man who brung you to his land and beat you and hung you
Is the Satan of the Bible and the Qu'ran living among you
They told you about a hell that burns hotter than the sun do
But after knowledge comes you've discovered that it was untrue
It's evil institutions and ungodly solutions
The cross you wear was used as a tool for execution
They claimed to be Christians but they set it on fire
How can you honour something that was used to kill the Messiah?
They say that you would go to heaven, when you die and leave here
But the earth is a sphere that already sits in the atmosphere
To keep you in bondage, you not worth a damn
But Elijah reversed the scam of the curse of ham
I know it's nature; I've been tryna to to rise above it for years
Money's not the root of all evil, the love of it is
The real Devil is right behind you, how fast can you run?
He replaced his white sheet, with a badge and a gun!
And a web was spun to kill and plants seed of the war
Close our mental door and ignore the needs of the poor
The procedure was tedious, centuries in deceiving us
Histories of previous people not heeded and repeated us
In a snakeish manner, he lies when his eyes see the camera
I seen him fiending for blood in Jena, Louisiana
They poisoning our hoods to bleed and weed us out
We attempting suicide every time that we leave the house
Treated the Black man, lower than canines in a kennel
And made us believe that our condition was accidental
All we do is sing songs, we done suffered too long
Look at they world and look at yours and tell me something ain't wrong
Blacks falsely characterized in America's eyes
But now the rest of the world is getting wise to America's lies
The Devil quickly waves his wand and negatively responds
When the Black man wants to be sworn in with his hand on the Qu'ran
How can they contradict the basis of they own foundation (hypocrites)
When the White racists who founded this nation were Masons
Masons who studied Islam and secret societies
But not original so they couldn't receive all the degrees
Slave owning presidents, who played the role of divine
The constitution was never designed with Black people in mind
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, straight down the line
All the way to Bill Clinton and Bush in the present time
Blood spill, and his will was placed on the Great Seal
His thoughts coded and revealed on the back of the dollar bill
He deceives the whole world and lies to the whole nation
Through his wicked interpretations on his main news station
FOX represents the number of the beast
Resolute the three letters you'll find a six in each
F is the sixth letter in the alphabets mix
O is the fifteenth, one plus five equals six
X is the twenty-fourth, that's six number three
Satanic messages fed to us over the TV
Put us to sleep with new forms of mental slavery
Cause if you knew the real God you would instantly be free
From The Serpent!
Who prevailed over the hell of the dragon when he cast his tail?
Since the slave trade in the Trans-Atlantic
Man's been granted grace until Allah's judgement spans the planet
It ain't hard to recognize the enemy
Who you say you are is nothing to me, words prove identity
With typical non-ethereal spiritless individuals
Habitual partakers in Babylonian rituals
Unrighteous acts be flipping you like fraction reciprocals
The nature of the original we abandoned those principles
At a time so integral and pivotal
We need to focus on the God and try not to deviate from being spiritual
The Serpent was in the garden and the light of the sun
Not a snake but a man with the characteristics of one
So understand no matter what you believe
The best way to avoid deception is to know that you CAN be deceived
The man who brung you to his land and beat you and hung you
Is the Satan of the Bible and the Qu'ran living among you
They told you about a hell that burns hotter than the sun do
But after knowledge comes you've discovered that it was untrue
It's evil institutions and ungodly solutions
The cross you wear was used as a tool for execution
They claimed to be Christians but they set it on fire
How can you honour something that was used to kill the Messiah?
They say that you would go to heaven, when you die and leave here
But the earth is a sphere that already sits in the atmosphere
To keep you in bondage, you not worth a damn
But Elijah reversed the scam of the curse of ham
I know it's nature; I've been tryna to to rise above it for years
Money's not the root of all evil, the love of it is
The real Devil is right behind you, how fast can you run?
He replaced his white sheet, with a badge and a gun!
And a web was spun to kill and plants seed of the war
Close our mental door and ignore the needs of the poor
The procedure was tedious, centuries in deceiving us
Histories of previous people not heeded and repeated us
In a snakeish manner, he lies when his eyes see the camera
I seen him fiending for blood in Jena, Louisiana
They poisoning our hoods to bleed and weed us out
We attempting suicide every time that we leave the house
Treated the Black man, lower than canines in a kennel
And made us believe that our condition was accidental
All we do is sing songs, we done suffered too long
Look at they world and look at yours and tell me something ain't wrong
Blacks falsely characterized in America's eyes
But now the rest of the world is getting wise to America's lies
The Devil quickly waves his wand and negatively responds
When the Black man wants to be sworn in with his hand on the Qu'ran
How can they contradict the basis of they own foundation (hypocrites)
When the White racists who founded this nation were Masons
Masons who studied Islam and secret societies
But not original so they couldn't receive all the degrees
Slave owning presidents, who played the role of divine
The constitution was never designed with Black people in mind
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, straight down the line
All the way to Bill Clinton and Bush in the present time
Blood spill, and his will was placed on the Great Seal
His thoughts coded and revealed on the back of the dollar bill
He deceives the whole world and lies to the whole nation
Through his wicked interpretations on his main news station
FOX represents the number of the beast
Resolute the three letters you'll find a six in each
F is the sixth letter in the alphabets mix
O is the fifteenth, one plus five equals six
X is the twenty-fourth, that's six number three
Satanic messages fed to us over the TV
Put us to sleep with new forms of mental slavery
Cause if you knew the real God you would instantly be free
From The Serpent!
Should post some more K-Rino lyrics, some people don't catch the content and excellence fully because of the rapidity.
Maybe not his 80s material but his mid to late 90s material definitely does
Minutes after I received my sentence
I was then sent to the threshold of a corridor's entrance
Forced into an hellish existence
I went from intense pain then commenced to seek instant repentance
My hand served as a surveyor, with no light I'm sightless
I stand beneath darknesses third layer
Imprisoned as a punishment not receiving a fate
In a place so desolate prayers can't even escape
The reason I was here was never communicated clear
Two minutes in this place appeared like I had waited years
When the lights came on I was bathing in bladed tears
Cuz the room had commandeer all of my greatest fears
This ain't Hades cuz it ain't hot and I don't see devils
I saw three different escalators that lead to three levels
I stepped on the first one making sure to be careful
Saw fluid filled lines on the walls that looked like blood vessels
That first floor was called 'Confessional'
For 24 hours straight they questioned and pressured you to express the truth
Everything I did, every evil act was tracked on a sheet of black
Stones I had to reenact than read it back
Painfully I suffered as I heard people applaud
I saw every face of every individual that I scarred
Childhood to teenage to adult years
Each women that ever shed tears over me vindictively appeared
Who I hurt bad despite them loving me
And left them to suffer without the slightest concern for their recovery
I looked at all the people that I dissed
Beg the tortured deceased and insist
Couldn't leave they had shackled my feet and my wrist
Then I was given a proposition to go to the next level or stay in this condition
My selection was to move on not realizing
That the second level was twice as painful and traumatizing
From the moment I put one foot on the next floor
I became sick to my stomach, disgusted by what I saw
People who needed me in life that I chose to ignore
Stood before me with intentions to even up the score
One of them said:
"Do you remember me?
I'm the homeless man that you didn't feed
You passed right by me in my time of need
Said "Please" but ended up receiving no love
You was leaving the club, judged me and accused me of being on drugs
But you didn't know that I was a celestial
Angel on the Earthly quest to morally test you
You left and the thought never revisited or stressed you
That one great gesture without question would of blessed you
So now you'll feel the pain of those you never said "Yes" to
For seven years straight like they did with no rescue
The horror in the field without letter will infest you
The cycle will repeat itself eternally unless you...
Decide to go to the final stage
But its your last one, after this there's no turning the page"
I said "Let's go" with no idea where I would be sent
Knowing this was it, back to the escalator I went
The last and worst floor was deep as the Earth's core
I was more nervous than the first whore to walk inside a Church door
I was instructed to sit by a wall with two slits
Approximately one inch in length, one inch in width
When they opened up somebody said "Look inside"
I was so petrified I asked if I could decline instead denied
Chance to survive was put in doubt
I passively looked in and realized that I was really looking out
I saw trees, sunlight and I rose up
Soon as a glimmer of hope expose itself the slits closed up
Once again I became mindful of my situation
The same voice said look behind you
And when I did it was such a burden
To see every person from the first two levels on the third one
I knew then I messed up, and should of chose better
Instead of one of the time I had to face it all together
How long will I be in this place? Please tell me
Claustrophobic in a small cell where they held me
A voice said "Just think and rewind
The whole time you was subconsciously confined in a guilt of your own mind
And these two slits are your eyes
So understand if you continue to persecute these thoughts will stay in you
But something had to teach you
We had no authority over your brain; you contain the power to release you"http://rapgenius.com/2810454/K-rino...ur-brain-you-contain-the-power-to-release-youhttp://rapgenius.com/2810454/K-rino...ur-brain-you-contain-the-power-to-release-you
I was then sent to the threshold of a corridor's entrance
Forced into an hellish existence
I went from intense pain then commenced to seek instant repentance
My hand served as a surveyor, with no light I'm sightless
I stand beneath darknesses third layer
Imprisoned as a punishment not receiving a fate
In a place so desolate prayers can't even escape
The reason I was here was never communicated clear
Two minutes in this place appeared like I had waited years
When the lights came on I was bathing in bladed tears
Cuz the room had commandeer all of my greatest fears
This ain't Hades cuz it ain't hot and I don't see devils
I saw three different escalators that lead to three levels
I stepped on the first one making sure to be careful
Saw fluid filled lines on the walls that looked like blood vessels
That first floor was called 'Confessional'
For 24 hours straight they questioned and pressured you to express the truth
Everything I did, every evil act was tracked on a sheet of black
Stones I had to reenact than read it back
Painfully I suffered as I heard people applaud
I saw every face of every individual that I scarred
Childhood to teenage to adult years
Each women that ever shed tears over me vindictively appeared
Who I hurt bad despite them loving me
And left them to suffer without the slightest concern for their recovery
I looked at all the people that I dissed
Beg the tortured deceased and insist
Couldn't leave they had shackled my feet and my wrist
Then I was given a proposition to go to the next level or stay in this condition
My selection was to move on not realizing
That the second level was twice as painful and traumatizing
From the moment I put one foot on the next floor
I became sick to my stomach, disgusted by what I saw
People who needed me in life that I chose to ignore
Stood before me with intentions to even up the score
One of them said:
"Do you remember me?
I'm the homeless man that you didn't feed
You passed right by me in my time of need
Said "Please" but ended up receiving no love
You was leaving the club, judged me and accused me of being on drugs
But you didn't know that I was a celestial
Angel on the Earthly quest to morally test you
You left and the thought never revisited or stressed you
That one great gesture without question would of blessed you
So now you'll feel the pain of those you never said "Yes" to
For seven years straight like they did with no rescue
The horror in the field without letter will infest you
The cycle will repeat itself eternally unless you...
Decide to go to the final stage
But its your last one, after this there's no turning the page"
I said "Let's go" with no idea where I would be sent
Knowing this was it, back to the escalator I went
The last and worst floor was deep as the Earth's core
I was more nervous than the first whore to walk inside a Church door
I was instructed to sit by a wall with two slits
Approximately one inch in length, one inch in width
When they opened up somebody said "Look inside"
I was so petrified I asked if I could decline instead denied
Chance to survive was put in doubt
I passively looked in and realized that I was really looking out
I saw trees, sunlight and I rose up
Soon as a glimmer of hope expose itself the slits closed up
Once again I became mindful of my situation
The same voice said look behind you
And when I did it was such a burden
To see every person from the first two levels on the third one
I knew then I messed up, and should of chose better
Instead of one of the time I had to face it all together
How long will I be in this place? Please tell me
Claustrophobic in a small cell where they held me
A voice said "Just think and rewind
The whole time you was subconsciously confined in a guilt of your own mind
And these two slits are your eyes
So understand if you continue to persecute these thoughts will stay in you
But something had to teach you
We had no authority over your brain; you contain the power to release you"http://rapgenius.com/2810454/K-rino...ur-brain-you-contain-the-power-to-release-youhttp://rapgenius.com/2810454/K-rino...ur-brain-you-contain-the-power-to-release-you
I think Ra has shyt from the 80's people 95 percent of people ain't fukking with now.
Scarface on K-Rino's lyrical prowess:
DX: You gonna have Eminem put some verses to them beats?
Scarface: Hell nah! [Laughs] I’m not fin to go in there fukkin’ with that white boy, man. [Laughs]
DX: You’re not gonna make the “Renegade”
mistake.
Scarface: Hell nah! What the fukk you mean, go in there fukkin’ with him, for what? [Laughs] But I guess that’s how I feel about – I guess that’s how a lot of rappers feel about this kid from out here named K-Rino.
DX: I heard you biggin’ him up again on Dopeman Music, on like one of the skits.
Scarface: Yeah like, you just don’t – It’s two people in music that you just don’t fukk with, there are two people in Rap that I just don’t fukk with: I’m not fukkin’ with Eminem, and I’m not fukkin’ with K-Rino. I invited K-Rino to do a verse on my album because a lot of people don’t wanna fukk with him, ‘cause he’s a dangerous muthafukka… I think he really took it light on me too.
DX: That’s saying something, that’s a hell of an endorsement to say that he’s got you when it comes to the H-Town hierarchy.
Scarface: Man, that muthafukka is the truth.
DX: I don’t know why it never happened for him…
Scarface: I think that it had a lot to do with…the way he felt about being affiliated with a major, or an indie-major… I don’t think he wanted to be a part of that fukkin’ machine. He didn’t wanna be…on that ship, that slave ship.
Scarface: For The First Time | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef & Old School Hip Hop | HipHop DX
and there you have it from the GOAT himself.
K-Rino is a top 3 ATG at the barest minimum.
DX: You gonna have Eminem put some verses to them beats?
Scarface: Hell nah! [Laughs] I’m not fin to go in there fukkin’ with that white boy, man. [Laughs]
DX: You’re not gonna make the “Renegade”
Scarface: Hell nah! What the fukk you mean, go in there fukkin’ with him, for what? [Laughs] But I guess that’s how I feel about – I guess that’s how a lot of rappers feel about this kid from out here named K-Rino.
DX: I heard you biggin’ him up again on Dopeman Music, on like one of the skits.
Scarface: Yeah like, you just don’t – It’s two people in music that you just don’t fukk with, there are two people in Rap that I just don’t fukk with: I’m not fukkin’ with Eminem, and I’m not fukkin’ with K-Rino. I invited K-Rino to do a verse on my album because a lot of people don’t wanna fukk with him, ‘cause he’s a dangerous muthafukka… I think he really took it light on me too.
DX: That’s saying something, that’s a hell of an endorsement to say that he’s got you when it comes to the H-Town hierarchy.
Scarface: Man, that muthafukka is the truth.
DX: I don’t know why it never happened for him…
Scarface: I think that it had a lot to do with…the way he felt about being affiliated with a major, or an indie-major… I don’t think he wanted to be a part of that fukkin’ machine. He didn’t wanna be…on that ship, that slave ship.
Scarface: For The First Time | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef & Old School Hip Hop | HipHop DX
and there you have it from the GOAT himself.K-Rino is a top 3 ATG at the barest minimum.
Scarface on K-Rino's lyrical prowess:
DX: You gonna have Eminem put some verses to them beats?
Scarface: Hell nah! [Laughs] I’m not fin to go in there fukkin’ with that white boy, man. [Laughs]
DX: You’re not gonna make the “Renegade”mistake.
Scarface: Hell nah! What the fukk you mean, go in there fukkin’ with him, for what? [Laughs] But I guess that’s how I feel about – I guess that’s how a lot of rappers feel about this kid from out here named K-Rino.
DX: I heard you biggin’ him up again on Dopeman Music, on like one of the skits.
Scarface: Yeah like, you just don’t – It’s two people in music that you just don’t fukk with, there are two people in Rap that I just don’t fukk with: I’m not fukkin’ with Eminem, and I’m not fukkin’ with K-Rino. I invited K-Rino to do a verse on my album because a lot of people don’t wanna fukk with him, ‘cause he’s a dangerous muthafukka… I think he really took it light on me too.
DX: That’s saying something, that’s a hell of an endorsement to say that he’s got you when it comes to the H-Town hierarchy.
Scarface: Man, that muthafukka is the truth.
DX: I don’t know why it never happened for him…
Scarface: I think that it had a lot to do with…the way he felt about being affiliated with a major, or an indie-major… I don’t think he wanted to be a part of that fukkin’ machine. He didn’t wanna be…on that ship, that slave ship.
Scarface: For The First Time | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef & Old School Hip Hop | HipHop DX
K-Rino is a top 3 ATG at the barest minimum.
Whats ATG?
All-time great
Myrical Lyfe
In the Gutter, of the Tunnel
We get it OP, you like k rino.
Just some mentions, that may get over looked.
Bis
Mf doom
Viro
Just some mentions, that may get over looked.
Bis
Mf doom
Viro
intilectual recipricol
Killin fake hip hop
okay someone post some good k rino... cuz I dont see nothin thats been posted fukkin with any real lyricist