Rakim is the best rapper of all time

[DLX]

Just look at these classics, he is the best and he will remain as the best for a very damn long time.




DMX's favourite rapper


He is a real sentence engineer


"Timeless, age dont count in the booth, when your flow submerges in the fountain of youth."
-Rakim the GOAT MC

Anybody that disagrees with this is wrong.

 

[Jesus X]

my favorite nas song is when he wrote the song from the POV of a gun.

big pun is in my opinion the best rapper ever up there with eminem and xzibit.

 

[Jesus X]

The greatest rapper ever died on a March 9th.

big pun died February 7th brah

 

[soggyfist]

@thoughtsone

 

[blaseblah]

Rakim's first three albums have almost no substance to them as far as lyrical subject matter. I wouldn't put him at that level. He's the Royce Gracie of rap to me, laying the foundation for high level emcees.

Lot of good names mentioned in this thread. One of my favorites of the modern era is Phonte. Especially his grown man subject matter.

 

[I Am Legion]

People have to understand rap was evolving. In the beginning, you rapped about yourself...bravado...what you could do on the mic. Could you rock a party? Run DMC were rock stars. People like Dougie Fresh, Slick Rick, were entertainers. Rakim was a flowmaster. A lot of guys mentioned in this thread are great word masters, but their delivery and voice can’t touch Rakim. Some of them try to do too much....that’s also why I loved EPMD....simple and clever as fuck, but they weren’t MCs....didn’t have the tone. Rakim had it all. Nas, Biggie and Tupac were the evolution of that. Then Eminem.

 

[sleepyguard85]

Rakim is great. Killah Priest is greatest.

 

[Simple Southerner]

big pun died February 7th brah

I love pun & I'm Hispanic but biggy is/ was better.

 

[Jesus X]

I love pun & I'm Hispanic but biggy is/ was better.

nah

 

[Mohawk Mauler]

1 of them

 

[ScarfaceJr]

So because of this thread i went on a bit hip hop binge (high of course) and i just wanna say Reggie Noble is the man.
and Gza is of course a genius.

 

[moreorless87]

pretty sure Dylan is the best rapper of all time

 

[INTERL0PER]

From that era... Big Daddy Kane, IMO.

All time? I'd throw my hat in the Black Thought ring.

Prime Black Thought

Prime Black Thought is current Black Thought, IMO. Always liked him, but some of the shit I've heard from him of late is way ahead of his older stuff.

<{monica}>



G O A T

 

[Kuona]

Nah Biggie is imo

 

[Oogie Sharp]

Is TS still alive? <45>

One and done I guess.

 

[Threetrees]

Rakim's first three albums have almost no substance to them as far as lyrical subject matter. I wouldn't put him at that level. He's the Royce Gracie of rap to me, laying the foundation for high level emcees.

Lot of good names mentioned in this thread. One of my favorites of the modern era is Phonte. Especially his grown man subject matter.

Powerful Big brother

 

[Threetrees]

<{monica}>



G O A T

Like Henriatta Lacks up in the cell

 

[Clear Winner]

Cappadonna's verse in Winter Warz is still peerless 30 years later.

It came out around '96, bro. Not close to being 30 years old.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Rakim's first three albums have almost no substance to them as far as lyrical subject matter. I wouldn't put him at that level. He's the Royce Gracie of rap to me, laying the foundation for high level emcees.

Lot of good names mentioned in this thread. One of my favorites of the modern era is Phonte. Especially his grown man subject matter.

Phonte is a good call, dude is an all rounder as well

 

[Clear Winner]

<{monica}>



G O A T

That "Sharia law on my cherie amour/ how much hypocrisy could people possibly ignore" bar is one of my favourites of the last decade.

Daylyt can be a weirdo (and I'm not claiming he's one of the best), but he's got too many quotables on this. Too many to pick up in one listen