Thank you for doing this reaction!!! Before this was officially released my brother in law who lived in Minneapolis (they didn't live too far from them) came down with family for a visit. He brought a tape recording of this in the original version-It was different from this one. Blew. My. Mind!!!! This one and Eric B for President was on it. Couldn't get enough!!! They shifted the game!!!
when he did the 7emcees scheme rakim is the king of taking bars from songs and words from songs and turn them to othe songs remember in follow the leader he said " a fortified freestyle lyrics to fury third eye make em shine like jewelry" He has a long called Lyrics to fury he did it again with the 7 emcees line if you heard I aint no joke thats why he said " so when you see me come up freeze or youll be one of those 7 emcees see if you heard m melody first you would know hat he is tlaking about in i aint no joke. he also said follow the leader in I know you got soul and he has a song called Follow the leader. The man was before his time
What he did was promote the next song before you heard it. So automatically you are drawn to it and like it. Creative promotion and marketing scheme before it became a regular thing.
Eric sermon said he was in a car when Rakim came on and an unnamed rapper advised Eric sermon he was done too and may as well get a job! See the interview
Mannn... I was a teenager during this monumental era. In my room on the turntables forever. Soooo blessed to have witnessed all of this. Soooooo many legends.
@borisdodgingbullets Man. We actually witnessed history. Pure uncut real. Those days are never to return. I'll forever appreciate the opportunity to be there in real life. I'm from Atl. Spent many hours D.J.ing. knew a few prominent people. Been to a few events in Atl that I was literally a part of. But was also in the streets. Still alive today though and fully am thankful for it all.
@Bighjr88 Okay. So you know. 😆 Yes. It was very dangerous. We made it through though. In the mid-late 80's it was Miami & New York. A-Town didn't really have anything out then. Late 80's California stepped-up. Too Short & Comptons Most Wanted. Geto Boys & J.T. Money "Action" was my sh-t.
I was 12yrs old when I first heard this song i was blown completely away i couldn't comprehend all of the sounds cutting and scratching deep voiced rappin the bass coming out my speakers it was so pleasantly overwhelming an overload musical sensory .....by the end i was completely addicted to HIP-HOP and haven't been able to get the monkey off my back since!
I was a young teen from Freeport LI. My Melody changed Rap and Deaded a lot of careers . Long Island N.Y. PUBLIC ENEMY, DE LA SOUL, THE BIZ, EPMD, GRANDADY I U, As Rakim said. ROUGH ENOUGH TO BREAK NY FROM LONG ISLAND.
bro i will never forget this album, Eric's production was so dark and obviously intentional, using whatever gear they could find, and Marley had all the old stuff, but it worked, and now rakim is the GOD MC, this instantly made RAKIM THE GOD MC and NO ONE CAN TOUCH THIS GUY!!!! yo check out his PBS Tiny Desk Bro, IT WILL NLOW YOU AWAY th-cam.com/video/iU0_cYjm8HE/w-d-xo.html
Much of today's rap is garbage by comparison. Some rapping like pre shoolers. I'll also add he didn't use the N Word or disrespect women with B's and H's.
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Thank you for doing this reaction!!! Before this was officially released my brother in law who lived in Minneapolis (they didn't live too far from them) came down with family for a visit. He brought a tape recording of this in the original version-It was different from this one. Blew. My. Mind!!!! This one and Eric B for President was on it. Couldn't get enough!!! They shifted the game!!!
when he did the 7emcees scheme rakim is the king of taking bars from songs and words from songs and turn them to othe songs remember in follow the leader he said " a fortified freestyle lyrics to fury third eye make em shine like jewelry" He has a long called Lyrics to fury he did it again with the 7 emcees line if you heard I aint no joke thats why he said " so when you see me come up freeze or youll be one of those 7 emcees see if you heard m melody first you would know hat he is tlaking about in i aint no joke. he also said follow the leader in I know you got soul and he has a song called Follow the leader. The man was before his time
What he did was promote the next song before you heard it. So automatically you are drawn to it and like it. Creative promotion and marketing scheme before it became a regular thing.
DMC of Run of DMC said when heard Rakim he knew their rap career was over.
I remember that story lol
Eric sermon said he was in a car when Rakim came on and an unnamed rapper advised Eric sermon he was done too and may as well get a job! See the interview
I wished this younger generation could hear how this sounded in a system.
Between 86-88 rap was unreal!!!!
Mannn...
I was a teenager during this monumental era. In my room on the turntables forever.
Soooo blessed to have witnessed all of this. Soooooo many legends.
So so right! I was 17 when this dropped! Somehow, I thought it would always be like this!
@borisdodgingbullets
Man.
We actually witnessed history. Pure uncut real.
Those days are never to return.
I'll forever appreciate the opportunity to be there in real life.
I'm from Atl. Spent many hours D.J.ing. knew a few prominent people. Been to a few events in Atl that I was literally a part of.
But was also in the streets.
Still alive today though and fully am thankful for it all.
@@borisdodgingbulletsI wish it would have, this ish out now has no diversity to it.✌🏾
I was a teenager too born in 1970, that era will never be duplicated, that era was special and very very very dangerous but I’m glad I experienced it.
@Bighjr88
Okay. So you know. 😆
Yes. It was very dangerous. We made it through though. In the mid-late 80's it was Miami & New York. A-Town didn't really have anything out then. Late 80's California stepped-up. Too Short & Comptons Most Wanted. Geto Boys & J.T. Money "Action" was my sh-t.
A good car song. It flows well with the ride :)
My favorite song by them
Easy does it do it easy. That became the hook on a famous Easy E song.
I was 12yrs old when I first heard this song i was blown completely away i couldn't comprehend all of the sounds cutting and scratching deep voiced rappin the bass coming out my speakers it was so pleasantly overwhelming an overload musical sensory .....by the end i was completely addicted to HIP-HOP and haven't been able to get the monkey off my back since!
Thus song STILL gives ke goosebumps like the first time i heard it in 87.
I appreciate you enthusiasm, young man🦾
I was a young teen from Freeport LI. My Melody changed Rap and Deaded a lot of careers . Long Island N.Y. PUBLIC ENEMY, DE LA SOUL, THE BIZ, EPMD, GRANDADY I U, As Rakim said. ROUGH ENOUGH TO BREAK NY FROM LONG ISLAND.
There's was nothing like this. He changed everything. ALL THE GREATS ARE BRANCHES FROM THE RAKIM TREE OF HIP HOP.
Trech from naughty by nature said when he heard rakim he threw the rhymes he was writing in the trash. See the statement.
8:33 Dropping that knowledge.kool g rap and 38 special upstate to Queens 🔥🔥🔥
God Mc
bro i will never forget this album, Eric's production was so dark and obviously intentional, using whatever gear they could find, and Marley had all the old stuff, but it worked, and now rakim is the GOD MC, this instantly made RAKIM THE GOD MC and NO ONE CAN TOUCH THIS GUY!!!! yo check out his PBS Tiny Desk Bro, IT WILL NLOW YOU AWAY th-cam.com/video/iU0_cYjm8HE/w-d-xo.html
The clean version has this gaps where expletive lyrics are in the first 2 verses
Not sure if the lyrics page says that
Much of today's rap is garbage by comparison. Some rapping like pre shoolers. I'll also add he didn't use the N Word or disrespect women with B's and H's.
Rakim Allah Tha God