Ra is one of the greats, but I feel the same way about G Rap that you feel about Ra, he stands above everybody else to me. All of the other legends that you mentioned are up there as well, I respect your taste.
In 1986 I’m 14 years old in Detroit. I’m about to clean my room and turn on the radio for some music. Hip Hop was Krush Groove then which was cool but it hadn’t yet become the soundtrack of my life. I flip on the radio and I hear a beat but missed the first verse. I hear the first 4 bars of the second verse and immediately push record never mind what I’m taping over because what I’m hearing is life altering. “No tricks in 86 it’s time to build, Eric B easy on the cut no mistakes allowed cause to me Mc means move the crowd!” No one did it like that before. Rakim literally invented flow!! His verses stand up today. How can he not be the GOAT?!?
Mike Howza I’m in the D now...but back then I was in Brooklyn, New York. Rakim is the G.O.A.T. My school was buzzing when ‘Melody’ came out. All Brooklyn was buzzing
“Putting blurs and slurs and words that don't fit in a rhyme Why waste time on the microphone I take this more serious than just a poem...........” even back then he said mumble rap was Garbage!! 🖐🏿 ⬇️ 🎤
Hey Jack Didn't yo father died not too long ago you should be still morning instead of worrying about what some garbage New York artist said back during the day
This is the 1st time I've heard Eric B. speak. Old school rappers still making that money even more nowadays, wow!!! Rakim changed the game so much that it took many awhile to catch up to speed. "Timeless, so age don't count in the booth, When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth" Wow!!! 🎤🎤💯🔥✌
@@frankmumford5844 No doubt! Both Krs1 and Rakim have Melle Mell in their personal pantheon of legends and role models for rapping and emceeing. He helped lay the blueprint.
@@pfeiffdog0811 Big Daddy kane is def up there.He is smoother than Eric B imo but Rakim is so raw and innovative.It's like a deep intellectual mafia murder with his words. Its kinda of an image preference portrayed in their music videos i guess. Both are def top notch level.Neck to neck almost. The old hip pop was best.It was more genuine and less corporately tied to product promotion.
RAKIM ALLAH CHANGED THE DIRECTION OF HIP HOP. HE MADE A LOT OF EMCEES STEP UP THEIR LYRICAL GAME. HE'S IN MY TOP THREE LIST NO MATTER WHAT. THE OTHER TWO ARE KRS ONE AND BIG DADDY KANE.
Hard work paid off. Hip Hop wasn't mainstream back in the day, but when it became mainstream, Most of the big name artist was shouting out Eric and Ra..All Praises to the Most High. I'm blessed to be able to see the old Hits making New money. All Praises!!
I love Eric..good man great artist good family just an amazing human being I've known Eric and Rakim since 87 did the Move the crowd video with them and I got nothing but love for those cats
Eric B and Rakim were game changer. They took hip-hop to a lever than no one ever thought could be possible. Rakim's flow and Eric B. DJ style were both on levels way ahead of their times. Everyone who came after them use their styles as a blueprint to create unique music that redefined the hip-hop culture. GOAT
.... I take 7 MCs put em in a line, then take 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme, now it’ll 7 more before I go for mine, now that’s 21 MCs ate up at the same time... The greatest line ever written. By the greatest MC ever.
Imo it hasn't aged well. Beats sound a bit dated. I would personally say the black album, it takes a nation of millions, Illmatic or death certificate to name a few
DJ just has is one of the greatest one of my favorites I had fun mixing him on radio back in the day salute peace two nas.one of the greatest of of all times as well salute peace kings queens music heads salute
Rakim and BDK were my favorite of all time and still are. I'll never forget when I was walking to school from home with my sony Walkman listening to BDK. I stopped dead in my tracks, it hit my like hearing the Voice of God. I figured out BDK's style. I tried to tell my friends but were like i dont get. So i decided to see if i could figure out Rakims style cuz that would have make me the most powerful emcee in the world... or just my high school lol. That was 88 89, to this day i still cant figure out his style. Like i hear it and feel it but i could never do it. Its like get it, but... Thought i was a donut and you tried to glaze me?!!!😵
@@juniorrhinox He stuck LL at white castle in front of a whole crowd lmmfaoooooo. Eric B would bring him to industry parties and he would follow rappers outside and get em lmmfaoooooo
They are still and will forever be the Dynamic Duo of HIP HOP ..just we will never experience nothing close to them in our culture..Yo made Love Eric B & Rakim..Make em clap ta this..lol
G Rap, Kane, and Ice Cube is pretty high on that list if you want to just compare pioneering skills. But there is no question about Rakim. His talent is special and I believe it deserves more praise. And because of his book i believe he will receive an opportunity to be studied beyond his albums. Hopefully he writes more books.
Eric I love you brother. It was you that went and Got Ra and brought him to us. I owe you a million for that. As one of your biggest fans, please focus on losing some weight. Don’t want to see you sick man.
Hey eric -b,whats up my brother,i was in san Quentin west block (yardside),when you spit that song about -lisa-,got you a parole violation,you said hit you up and you shoot an album,sorry ive been busy,respect.
Rakim is simply the greatest of all time, he changed the way MCs rock the mic, his flow is insane and I have seen him live and he sounds like you're playing his music on your stereo, we have to give him his flowers while he's alive y'all
@jjw00dw. that’s your opinion and I respect it because KRS is another legend, however, the way Rakim impacted mcing is something nobody else has ever done and probably nobody will
RAKIM MADE ME WANT TO BE A RAPPER...SINCE THEN I'VE TRAVELED THE WORLD ... HE IS THE GOAT ... EVEN BIG DADDY KANE KNOW IT !!. THAT'S RIGHT I SAID IT 100X..FROM PHILLY
Me too. Ever since I heard "I Ain't No Joke" I picked up the pen. And FACTS!.... Big Daddy said he would battle him but didn't really want it. He wanted KRS.
Incorrect, it's not that he never cursed, it's that Rakim RARELY cursed in his songs. There are some exceptions where he did curse ("My Melody", Let "The Rhythm Hit Em", "New York (Ya Out There)", many songs from his album THE MASTER). It's just that his rhymes are so fire that with or without cursing that they send chills down the spine.
Eric B message is way to powerful to get distracted , even from the guy dancing in back of him, Eric B is A Legend when he speak the world gets distracted,and some laughs as the man dances at the 1:40 mark behind Eric B.
The line I recall the most was Rah and Eric B joint My Medody: I take seven emcees put 'em in a line And add seven more brothers who think they can rhyme Well, it'll take seven more before I go for mine Now that's twenty-one emcees ate up at the same time! WOW
Rakim invented a whole different style he basically rearranged the way M.C.s wrote and delivered their rhymes with the rhyme within a rhyme format. Not one rapper was spittin like Rakim before Rakim but, a lot of them were after Rakim appeared on the scene. There's only one Godfather of Hip-hop.
Rakim"s Metaphors Embraced the Whole entire Hood Even the 5 percenters was breaking bread bout Rakim When Naz wasnt The talk in the streets in 86 was Only about Rakim The Door Hindges was Blown Off Everytime They Performed Ya kiding Me!!!!!!!!
A menace to a microphone, a lethal weapon An assasinator, if the people ain’t stepping You see a part of me that you never seen When I’m fiending for a microphone. I'M MICROPHONE FIEND
Rakim is my GOAT. He was a game changer. I love NAS, Kool G. Rap, KRS, BDK, and a few others, but Rakim simply stands above.
Ra is one of the greats, but I feel the same way about G Rap that you feel about Ra, he stands above everybody else to me. All of the other legends that you mentioned are up there as well, I respect your taste.
@@dylanmehmedovic5527 Both Ra and G. Rap stand above to me. 2 lyrics factories. But I also put Chuck D up there as well.
Ur 1,000,000 percent right
Eric Anderson I respect ra but he ain’t better then nas lol
I think it's between Ra n Gee Rap. Ra maybe hit the charta more but Gee Rap was very gritty. I liked It's A Demo and Wanted Dead or Alive.
In 1986 I’m 14 years old in Detroit. I’m about to clean my room and turn on the radio for some music. Hip Hop was Krush Groove then which was cool but it hadn’t yet become the soundtrack of my life. I flip on the radio and I hear a beat but missed the first verse. I hear the first 4 bars of the second verse and immediately push record never mind what I’m taping over because what I’m hearing is life altering. “No tricks in 86 it’s time to build, Eric B easy on the cut no mistakes allowed cause to me Mc means move the crowd!” No one did it like that before. Rakim literally invented flow!! His verses stand up today. How can he not be the GOAT?!?
Revorded the tape huh 😅. That brings back memories.
I was right behind you #73
Mike Howza I was 10 years in 86 and I remember being at the boys club playing basketball and heard” I know you got soul” I ran home and taped it !!!
@desertdetroiter Yeah bruh I totally agree with your commentary. I'll never forget how it hit me when I first heard Rakim.
Mike Howza I’m in the D now...but back then I was in Brooklyn, New York. Rakim is the G.O.A.T.
My school was buzzing when ‘Melody’ came out. All Brooklyn was buzzing
Rakim is the greatest of all time and he's the main reason why I got into hip hop myself some thirty years ago.
No debate
Subjective opinion. Grand Puba is underrated
period
G.O.A.T. RAKIM ALLAH
No doubt!!
“Putting blurs and slurs and words that don't fit in a rhyme
Why waste time on the microphone
I take this more serious than just a poem...........” even back then he said mumble rap was Garbage!!
🖐🏿
⬇️
🎤
Hey Jack Didn't yo father died not too long ago you should be still morning instead of worrying about what some garbage New York artist said back during the day
@@hitmantwestsidebloodsstl677 your a hater!
wow..everything he spit was a classic. No wasted words
🙌🏽👑🙌🏽
This is the 1st time I've heard Eric B. speak. Old school rappers still making that money even more nowadays, wow!!! Rakim changed the game so much that it took many awhile to catch up to speed. "Timeless, so age don't count in the booth,
When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth" Wow!!! 🎤🎤💯🔥✌
Heard him speak on "Paid on Full!" But not many remember that!
"Yo Rakim..what happened to peace??"
@@erroltorrington9186 Oh ok. I forgot about that. I'm quite sure that was him. 👍👍✌
I do remember his few lines on Paid in Full, but for some reason I thought he had a much deeper voice.
Yeah Eric B. did the intro and outro to Paid in Full. He shout the agent, management and label! Who we rolling wit? "We rolling wit Rush!" #Classic
Rakim is the goat change the rap game my favorite mc . Paid in full album was a classic. Hands down . They need to do a new reunion album .
Top 3 or 4 for me, hands down
He taught us all how to put thought structure and lyrical purpose to writing rhymes.
This is true..again..but don't forget "The Message"@ Suger Hill Gang"...True Blueprint for Hip-Hop .Facts!!!
@@frankmumford5844 No doubt! Both Krs1 and Rakim have Melle Mell in their personal pantheon of legends and role models for rapping and emceeing. He helped lay the blueprint.
I love to hear that these dudes are successful. Because they reinvented the game. Its only right that they still eat from it!
RAKIM is the goat period.
To me big daddy Kane is the goat but I certainly won’t argue your opinion.
He is definitely one of the goats, along with KRS1
Makaveli is the greatest of all time
I like Rakim. But he is overrated. Nit even top 10 honestly. 2pac is the G.O.A.T
@@pfeiffdog0811 Big Daddy kane is def up there.He is smoother than Eric B imo but Rakim is so raw and innovative.It's like a deep intellectual mafia murder with his words. Its kinda of an image preference portrayed in their music videos i guess. Both are def top notch level.Neck to neck almost. The old hip pop was best.It was more genuine and less corporately tied to product promotion.
No cursing, no girls, no drugs, just lyrics!!!!! One of my favorite tracks, go back and check out Lyrics of Fury!!! Banga
Let The Rythm Hit 'em Album, Ra rapped About A female Named Mahogany .But it was smooth and done in good taste. Ra is Da GOAT!
👊🏾✊🏾
You cannot have a true pioneers of hip hop conversation without mentioning Eric B and Rakim.
RAKIM ALLAH CHANGED THE DIRECTION OF HIP HOP. HE MADE A LOT OF EMCEES STEP UP THEIR LYRICAL GAME. HE'S IN MY TOP THREE LIST NO MATTER WHAT. THE OTHER TWO ARE KRS ONE AND BIG DADDY KANE.
And Kool G Rap....he is very underrated.
...ok
@@johnjones4866 G rap was better than Kane. The lisp killed him.
True to life right there bro!!!💯
Melle mele and kool moe dee
It's crazy how Rakim made rappers level up but nowadays these new rappers have regressed in their talent
❤respect from HAITI
80's 90's and late 2000's real hip hop still listening to old school real hip hop respect to all the dope rappers
“LATE”2000’s you mean early 2000’s
Rakim Was Spitting that Science- I was A Kid Taking it All In!!!!! Great times on Hollis Ave!!!!
This guy is a DON
Hard work paid off. Hip Hop wasn't mainstream back in the day, but when it became mainstream, Most of the big name artist was shouting out Eric and Ra..All Praises to the Most High. I'm blessed to be able to see the old Hits making New money. All Praises!!
Alan this was awesome to see this interview. Nostalgic!!
Absolute Legend.
G.O.A.T.
Rakim came like Coltrane.
Backed up by certifiable classic Eric B beats. Best duo ever.
"THAT GUY IN THE BACKGROUND CLOWIN' IS WILD"!
Yeah he a goof ball
I thought only I seen him lol
Eric b for president
@Calvin LaFleur Jr Correct.
Respect to Eric B the Legend!
I love Eric..good man great artist good family just an amazing human being I've known Eric and Rakim since 87 did the Move the crowd video with them and I got nothing but love for those cats
Rakim was lyrical when being lyrical was something new and wordplay was almost unheard of.
...right
I still have the original cassette i bought back in 1987 of Paid in Full with money i earned from a paper route. It's a Classic!!
People like Run DMC, Whodini, and Eric B & Rakim are the reason why I loved hip hop.
Rakim is your favorite rappers, favorite rapper.
Rakim's style was smooth fluid and unique...that was Guru's style too! Respect to 2 of the G.O.A.T!! Period!!
Eric B and Rakim were game changer. They took hip-hop to a lever than no one ever thought could be possible. Rakim's flow and Eric B. DJ style were both on levels way ahead of their times. Everyone who came after them use their styles as a blueprint to create unique music that redefined the hip-hop culture. GOAT
.... I take 7 MCs put em in a line,
then take 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme, now it’ll 7 more before I go for mine, now that’s 21 MCs ate up at the same time...
The greatest line ever written. By the greatest MC ever.
I have to agree, my fave verse all time
Paid in full, the greatest album ever made...
Illmatic is better
@Rickey Henderson I never listen to that album but I will check it out and I will hit u back
Imo it hasn't aged well. Beats sound a bit dated. I would personally say the black album, it takes a nation of millions, Illmatic or death certificate to name a few
The mic God, Rakim is the personification of GOAT! 🐐 🎤 🎶
Rakim is the greatest MC of all time
True Legends Salute ✌🏿
Eric B & Rakim two rap pioneers. They made rap fun and their music wasn't laced with violence and negative messages for the black community.
Believe it or not this is the first time I've heard Eric B speaking.
Damn..He went from Paid In Full to just Full.
he still Paid..very much so
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 That was foul
This is most animated I have ever seen Eric B!!
They're making MORE NOW?! Wow... i'm genuinly shocked. I'm so fucking happy to hear that. Hard work fuckin pays. Never surrender.
The guy in the background behind Eric B. at 1:40 ....LMAO!
GOOD GRIEF!!!
Rakim = GOAT
There's no debate
Yes there is!.Kane KRS Cool J and Rakim are the mount Rushmore of MCS .who's the best betweence them.its definitely debatable.
Or even masterbate lol.
Nas
@@humblebragger500 Nas is top 5 but Rakim undisputed number 1
NAS is da goat nd Rakim aftr..
87 baby greatest year of all time.
God bless Alan Hahn for giving that exposure to this legend.
Good job Alan...I see you respect the culture👍🏾
Great to hear Eric B speaking. Epic part of the Culture.
Paid in full I know this song from , my hood since he back to westcoast , i hope he's remember me in jakarta indonesia , miss you mr Dean jhonshon .
Dope work Allen,, peace to the GOD'S
Thank you thank you I'm glad to see Eric be
DJ just big big big shout out two Eric b four putting out great music and playing a part of hip hop peace
Love y'all!
Great video
DJ just has is one of the greatest one of my favorites I had fun mixing him on radio back in the day salute peace two nas.one of the greatest of of all times as well salute peace kings queens music heads salute
Eric B! The King!
Thumbs up if you noticed the guy dancing in the background..
Rakim and BDK were my favorite of all time and still are. I'll never forget when I was walking to school from home with my sony Walkman listening to BDK. I stopped dead in my tracks, it hit my like hearing the Voice of God. I figured out BDK's style. I tried to tell my friends but were like i dont get. So i decided to see if i could figure out Rakims style cuz that would have make me the most powerful emcee in the world... or just my high school lol. That was 88 89, to this day i still cant figure out his style. Like i hear it and feel it but i could never do it. Its like get it, but...
Thought i was a donut and you tried to glaze me?!!!😵
Eric B was cool with the real fifty cent. He use to send Fifty to rob BDK all the time.
@@pk7ghalm23 ummmm what 😲
@@juniorrhinox He stuck LL at white castle in front of a whole crowd lmmfaoooooo. Eric B would bring him to industry parties and he would follow rappers outside and get em lmmfaoooooo
They are still and will forever be the Dynamic Duo of HIP HOP ..just we will never experience nothing close to them in our culture..Yo made Love Eric B & Rakim..Make em clap ta this..lol
Whats crazy after all these years I never ever heard Eric 'b talk until this lol😎😎😎
Good to hear Mr.B. speak so highly of his Business Partner; for some reason,idk, I was surprised
This is my first time ever hearing Eric b talk.......wow....
G Rap, Kane, and Ice Cube is pretty high on that list if you want to just compare pioneering skills. But there is no question about Rakim. His talent is special and I believe it deserves more praise. And because of his book i believe he will receive an opportunity to be studied beyond his albums. Hopefully he writes more books.
Man that sgit was smooth! Thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me!
Eric I love you brother. It was you that went and Got Ra and brought him to us. I owe you a million for that. As one of your biggest fans, please focus on losing some weight. Don’t want to see you sick man.
Eric B is straight up with that!!!!!
Best hop hop album ever! I hit like a storm!
Can't take a thing away from them at all
Rakim hands down is the best lyricist ever!
Hey eric -b,whats up my brother,i was in san Quentin west block (yardside),when you spit that song about -lisa-,got you a parole violation,you said hit you up and you shoot an album,sorry ive been busy,respect.
Rakim is simply the greatest of all time, he changed the way MCs rock the mic, his flow is insane and I have seen him live and he sounds like you're playing his music on your stereo, we have to give him his flowers while he's alive y'all
@jjw00dw. that’s your opinion and I respect it because KRS is another legend, however, the way Rakim impacted mcing is something nobody else has ever done and probably nobody will
My Favorite Artist he birth a lot of the 90s artist with his flow he changed the Game no cursing either
They came out with the gloves 🧤 on I still play their cd paid in full
RAKIM MADE ME WANT TO BE A RAPPER...SINCE THEN I'VE TRAVELED THE WORLD ...
HE IS THE GOAT ...
EVEN BIG DADDY KANE KNOW IT !!.
THAT'S RIGHT I SAID IT
100X..FROM PHILLY
It's hard to say think of Cool G rap,LL Cool J,Big Daddy Kane, KRS,Biggie Smalls, Ice Cube, D.O.C etc. Alot of guys who were nice.
You dont have be pressured to have a favorite rapper. Thats a heavy title to give one rapper, but I guess it comes down to matter of opinion.
Me too. Ever since I heard "I Ain't No Joke" I picked up the pen. And FACTS!.... Big Daddy said he would battle him but didn't really want it. He wanted KRS.
@@40EastTrill yea, I seen that. He said Rakim wasn't a battle rapper.
big daddy kane had rakim shook!!!!!!!
Tough, I can’t argue with someone choosing Rakim. But personally for me it’s always been the K- the -R - the- S the ONE! #KRSONE
I'd say joint first Rakim and KRS
my Favorit group 80/90er
31 and counting. Salute to those soldiers 4real!
In my opinion Rakim is the greatest rapper of all time. He had extraordinary word play.
Rakim never cursed! Positive raps with meaning
Right on brother right on
Incorrect, it's not that he never cursed, it's that Rakim RARELY cursed in his songs. There are some exceptions where he did curse ("My Melody", Let "The Rhythm Hit Em", "New York (Ya Out There)", many songs from his album THE MASTER). It's just that his rhymes are so fire that with or without cursing that they send chills down the spine.
Rakim is dope...
Guy to the right in background at 1:39 😂
He is the g.o.a.t of this clip 😂😂😂😂😂😂
mynellemail Nell Yeah I saw the guy Voguing 🙅🏽♂️in the back ground😂🤣🤣
LMFAO dude needs to be on X Factor
Rakim is raps EVOLUTION. GOAT and countless other titles will come and go. Evolution is eternally linked to existence. Thinking of a master plan.
eric b killing it wit that louie coat on!
This is my first time hearing Eric B speak and I'm 41. Not what I expected at all.
ERIC B = "Exercising - Regularly - Isnt - Consistent - Behavior
Aluminum mike, go sit your corny self down somewhere!
How many kids Eric b has paid in full is a classic album shout out to the god mc Rakim 🙏💯💪👍🎤🎶🎼
Rakim is the gold standard even to this day. 🐐
Legends.
2020 Eric B for President
Eric B message is way to powerful to get distracted , even from the guy dancing in back of him, Eric B is A Legend when he speak the world gets distracted,and some laughs as the man dances at the 1:40 mark behind Eric B.
Love Eric “B” they are the goat. Period!!!!!
The line I recall the most was Rah and Eric B joint My Medody: I take seven emcees put 'em in a line
And add seven more brothers who think they can rhyme
Well, it'll take seven more before I go for mine
Now that's twenty-one emcees ate up at the same time! WOW
Real talk.
Rakim invented a whole different style he basically rearranged the way M.C.s wrote and delivered their rhymes with the rhyme within a rhyme format. Not one rapper was spittin like Rakim before Rakim but, a lot of them were after Rakim appeared on the scene. There's only one Godfather of Hip-hop.
Eric B got big daaam. Still respect he made them great beats for the god MC Rakim!!
Yes I concur!
G. O. A. T hands down!
Rakim"s Metaphors Embraced the Whole entire Hood Even the 5 percenters was breaking bread bout Rakim When Naz wasnt The talk in the streets in 86 was Only about Rakim The Door Hindges was Blown Off Everytime They Performed Ya kiding Me!!!!!!!!
Im R the A To to kim if i wasnt then why would i say i am.
That VERSE was like no other...
🔥🔥
Love that verse! That’s the verse where Eminem got the hook from on
“The Way I Am”
A menace to a microphone, a lethal weapon
An assasinator, if the people ain’t stepping
You see a part of me that you never seen
When I’m fiending for a microphone.
I'M MICROPHONE FIEND
After 12 I'm worst than a gremlin feed me hip hop & I'll start trembling
...who can lyricize like this now-ah-dayz..... 🚫
...my manz say “I melted microphones instead of cones of ice cream”...💯
Rakim is the BEST Of all times period