Wow, being a little country boy in Kentucky in the eighties and nineties. When I came across Clarence 13x and then finding out about 5 percent lyricist like Rakim Allah and Wise Intelligent (Poor Righteous Teacher) it opened another world . Rakim 's delivery was so flawless it can't be duplicated. Shout out to Kweli and High Tech rep that Natti.
Still have my green "paid in full" concert t shirt from 1987 with "bless the mic for the gods" on the back. My first concert ever, got the ticket stub as well
@@stevemcraemanager7119as far as Scarface . Why do you feel that way and did you ever see him live ? There is a 1994 interview with him in The Source ( he is on the cover). His intelligence is on another level.
This is what hip-hop looks like.. Rakim has been one of my favorite MCs since i first heard him as a kid in the 80s, and he remains on my top-5 to this day.. What you witnessed on that stage might help explain why he's so special and central to the story of hip-hop culture and rap music.
Kweli is a legend. Rakim is a legend squared. And they went and got the legend cubed?! When Bob James came on the scene, and the love was flowing, I got goosebumps. Bob James always honored the black roots of Jazz, found inspiration and collaborations to open it up to younger ears, and that's why he is such seminal source material for Hip-Hop. I know he always used to treated the sampling of his work as a financial transaction rather than a creative extension, which is maybe the only slightly sour note (though the brilliance of his work is enough sweet to overcome that), so it's electrifying to hear that he might be collaborating directly with Rakim in the near future. Oh can you just IMAGINE?!
I was born in the 80s and to be seeing this put together over jazz music is truly a present in this time and age. #FoundersOfRap #TheGod #Rakim #Word2Mutha
This was an incredible set! All legends! Bob James, Rakim, and Talib! What more can you say? Peace to the gods and earths! Understanding is the best part, Peace!
"January 28, 1968 Born into this world, William Griffin The Great Chapter 1, Wyandanch, Long Island Scientific rhyming invented a new style when He met with Eric Barrier from East Elmhurst The melody they created was the first" - Nas
13TH CENTURY PERSIAN POET HAFIZ ~ HIS POEM CALLED "STRANGE MIRACLE" OH WONDEROUS CREATURES...BY WHAT STRANGE MIRACLE DO YOU SO OFTEN NOT SMILE ~ HARMONY AND BLISS BLESSINGS ~ ILOVEY'ALLPEACE
Man I’m 28 rakim the greatest rapper from nyc really grew up off him had his posters or my wall my pops how was ain’t teach me nun else it was great music
Til this day Eric B & Rakim’s Paid💵in Full Album 💿 is still the best lyrical Album of all time because the beats was fire & he had not once feature MC on it which Proved that the God MC is the best that ever done it. I also feel that Big Daddy Kane’s 1st Album along with BDP Criminal Minded, Slick Rick Great Adventures & Redman’s Muddy Waters & Nas Illmatic was great Albums because it didn’t have a lot of Features
Rakim definitely did his thing with Jazz, following in the footsteps of others Hip-Hop artists like Stetsasonic who did it prior on - Talking all that Jazz (1988).
Facts! The band’s tight AF too! It’s rare that a band sound as good as, if not better than the studio recording. My parts were the horns in “Follow the leader”… He hit them perfect! And the bass on “Don’t sweat the technique”.. Murders! 💯🫡🫡🫡 Incredible performances from all involved. …And then you bring out Bob fkn James… I’m done! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾101/10… Yeah, I know what I wrote! Lol Peace N Love all 💯
Wow, being a little country boy in Kentucky in the eighties and nineties. When I came across Clarence 13x and then finding out about 5 percent lyricist like Rakim Allah and Wise Intelligent (Poor Righteous Teacher) it opened another world . Rakim 's delivery was so flawless it can't be duplicated. Shout out to Kweli and High Tech rep that Natti.
Still have my green "paid in full" concert t shirt from 1987 with "bless the mic for the gods" on the back. My first concert ever, got the ticket stub as well
His cadence was so far ahead of its time. I don't know if people understand that he created the standard pocket for flows
That's why he's the God mc
No they didn't understand... especially the commercial craving artists and their fans
I like that rakims flow and style is timeless. ☮️
truth. it's just a smooth, liquid flow. i'm imaginging how it'd feel hearing this flow for the first time in '85
@@seanposner8884Even better in ‘85 because it was no other lyricist sounding like him when he came out!
"Timeless, so age don't count in the booth
When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth"
Honestly listening to him today I feel that there's still almost no one you can touch his flow. His voice still sounds the crisp!
Solid
The band ripped that joint! Listen to the flute on top of those drums and bass...NICE!
The God MC flowing over a live band is what Hip Hop dreams are made of.
Swag
Exactly! This is what made HIP HOP famous!!
Live bands ,is what Live hip hop performances is lacking.salute Rakim!
Rakim is one of my all-time favorite rappers. Great seeing him perform here. Cool person to vibe with in person as well.
RAKIM AND SCARFACE IS IT FOR ME.
@@stevemcraemanager7119 Nice!
@@stevemcraemanager7119as far as Scarface . Why do you feel that way and did you ever see him live ? There is a 1994 interview with him in The Source ( he is on the cover). His intelligence is on another level.
@@stevemcraemanager7119😊❤
Come back to Miami AGAIN (SAT OR EARLY SUNDAY)I MISSED YOU!!! I'M A FIEND!!!
Rakim is a living legend!
MASSIVE RESPECK!
🙏🏻💯🙏🏻💯🙏🏻💯🙏🏻💯🙏🏻
This would've been such an ill show to attend. Rakim, Talib, Bob James, Black Thought stopping thru... damn.
I almost cried from excitement literally
This is what hip-hop looks like..
Rakim has been one of my favorite MCs since i first heard him as a kid in the 80s, and he remains on my top-5 to this day.. What you witnessed on that stage might help explain why he's so special and central to the story of hip-hop culture and rap music.
He's at the top of the list, then you add the other 4
Ya'll don't understand the magnitude of this. 👏👏☝
Head nodding till it fell off, bro!😮
😂👊🏾
They really don't! 💯
magnitude is the right word❤
Wh tf are you!
The R Rakim the Godfather MC OG respect to a living Legend of Hip-hop Rap music
WTF you mean Godfather MC? Rakim is the God Emcee, please try to get it right!
what a line up!!!! Talib is for the people
Man this was a dope show...Ra still got that teck-neek
Kweli is a legend. Rakim is a legend squared. And they went and got the legend cubed?! When Bob James came on the scene, and the love was flowing, I got goosebumps. Bob James always honored the black roots of Jazz, found inspiration and collaborations to open it up to younger ears, and that's why he is such seminal source material for Hip-Hop. I know he always used to treated the sampling of his work as a financial transaction rather than a creative extension, which is maybe the only slightly sour note (though the brilliance of his work is enough sweet to overcome that), so it's electrifying to hear that he might be collaborating directly with Rakim in the near future. Oh can you just IMAGINE?!
I wish i was there. Kenz. London.
So dope The 18th letter The God MC... the Band killed Follow the leader big up Bob James this is legendary
En Colombia amamos la voz de RAKIM y sus canciones #1
Those open hi hats channeling Ashley's Roachclip, love it. Rakim is the GOD
Rakim lyrics on let the rhythm album are the absolute apex of bars
Peace! Yes you are absolutely 💯 correct…
I was born in the 80s and to be seeing this put together over jazz music is truly a present in this time and age. #FoundersOfRap #TheGod #Rakim #Word2Mutha
You still the master of rap Rakim you’ll never get old that flow can’t be followed
This was an incredible set! All legends! Bob James, Rakim, and Talib! What more can you say? Peace to the gods and earths! Understanding is the best part, Peace!
Now this is the true definition of an E-M-C-EE🎤🎤🎤💥💥💥
FOLLOW THE LEADER!!! Classic indeed!!! 🔥🔥🔥
HIPHOP is a feeliing!
well put!
I THANK THE ANGELS FOR THE DIVINE POETRY ~ AND THE HOLY INSTRUMENTS ~ HU SONG
This rocks so clean in the whip... small intimate set with Bob James on the keys... amazing
"January 28, 1968
Born into this world, William Griffin The Great
Chapter 1, Wyandanch, Long Island
Scientific rhyming invented a new style when
He met with Eric Barrier from East Elmhurst
The melody they created was the first" - Nas
Like someone said many years ago: there was every MC before Rakim and everyone after.. he's the standard..
Damn! Rakim was way ahead of his time. His music is still as fresh as it was back then. And he has quite some classics under his belt
It humbles me. To see legends repected like this. 👍
I'm so glad he's coming out more
THIS THE HIP-HOP I KNOW!!!!!!!! THE ONLY HIP-HOP I'LL EVER KNOW!!! The God Rakim, Talib & Bob James.... 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
13TH CENTURY PERSIAN POET HAFIZ ~ HIS POEM CALLED "STRANGE MIRACLE" OH WONDEROUS CREATURES...BY WHAT STRANGE MIRACLE DO YOU SO OFTEN NOT SMILE ~ HARMONY AND BLISS BLESSINGS ~ ILOVEY'ALLPEACE
When that Rhodes came in😮 straight butter 🧈
Salute Rakim & Talib Kweli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The best: Rakim forever.
🤔ONE OF THEE FEW BEST SELECT ON PLANET !! UNQUESTIONABLE 😉
. .. I would love to see him perform "put your hands together" just once 🤞🏽✌🏽🤞🏽
. ..heads keep forgetting about this one
Man I’m 28 rakim the greatest rapper from nyc really grew up off him had his posters or my wall my pops how was ain’t teach me nun else it was great music
so great to see the legend and god MC with Bob James, classic collab!!!
Guys...Talib Kweli is the backup MC
A.backup MC at that level.🥰🥰🥰
He is a proper hip hop.legend in his own right 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This brotha...still flowing!!! HE is definition of a legend. These kids today should not even have that word "Legend" in their mouths. SMH
Facts you heard the man….RAKIM the BEST rapper on the planet 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏🥇🥇🥇🏆🏆🏆
Til this day Eric B & Rakim’s Paid💵in Full Album 💿 is still the best lyrical Album of all time because the beats was fire & he had not once feature MC on it which Proved that the God MC is the best that ever done it. I also feel that Big Daddy Kane’s 1st Album along with BDP Criminal Minded, Slick Rick Great Adventures & Redman’s Muddy Waters & Nas Illmatic was great Albums because it didn’t have a lot of Features
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My father always tells me that names a lot about a person... Rakim Allah!!!! Incredible always !!!!
thank's Bob James tooo!!!!!! too much music !!!!!
Nothing, but Respect Rak!
J.R. Long Island, N.Y.
It's been a while,keep doing!
I'm still cooking too!
This is a beautiful setting right here! Hip-Hop 🙌🏾💯
Rakim definitely did his thing with Jazz, following in the footsteps of others Hip-Hop artists like Stetsasonic who did it prior on - Talking all that Jazz (1988).
When Talib mentioned Follow The Leader the best verse...Talib is a student of the game of hip hop!!! If you know You know
Looking forward to a Rakim and Black Thought ep!!!!
I truly believe Follow the Leader is one of the greatest rap songs ever (if not the best) written.
THE GOD, NO DOUBT GIVING THE MIC HEAT.
Damn Look what we don started.... Black Thought , Talib & Rakim now that would be a mad dope album
Still kickin it! Word`up - don't sweat the technique!
Rakim is legend 4 sure!❤
Legacy acts should only perform with live bands. Amazing!
There's NOTHING like it!
Facts!
The band’s tight AF too!
It’s rare that a band sound as good as, if not better than the studio recording.
My parts were the horns in “Follow the leader”…
He hit them perfect!
And the bass on “Don’t sweat the technique”..
Murders! 💯🫡🫡🫡
Incredible performances from all involved.
…And then you bring out Bob fkn James… I’m done!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾101/10…
Yeah, I know what I wrote! Lol
Peace N Love all 💯
@@PhoenixBlack_741 Love!
86 was a great year...
What it do, this is a blessing…
we're here to serve!
facts right
No one can do like King Rakim 🎉❤
Follow The #Leader
Follow Me Into A #Flow!!!
HEAVENS YES ❤❤❤❤❤
👏👏👏👏 incredible! What a trio! Y'all don't know how good you got it at the Blue Note Jazz Club!
I wish the volume of Rakim's microphone 🎤 was higher but other than that the performance gave me goosebumps.
Rakim🎶🎤👍👍👍
Feels so good,,, 🔥🔥🔥 thank you!
Ta The God smooth af. Real HIP HOP REAL LYRICIST. Gangstas don't dance they boogie
That's true HipHop..🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Masterclass !!!
They brought Bob James out to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop 🎉💯👏
Legendary performance. Thank you!
Man was ahead of his time.
Let the Rhythm hit em!
You made it rain live
Peace to the God
Dope af
Oh yes 😂😂😂I love him❤️❤️🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🙏🙏
Rakim is the original god MC. He was lyrical b4 being lyrical was a thing. He’s number 1 on my top 5
The band is incredible!1!
Two Legends. 👑👑🔥🔥🔥
True Pioneer!
Omg that Follow the Leader was too funky
Mic Check! Excellent!
talent incarnated
the real king of NY
Sick you get to see this so intimate
You can’t get mo geek than I bout them #HHGs God Talib K. Ya roc 4 real, bring the noise #4Life king.
Never stop RAKIM! EVERYDAY ALL DAY!
This is impeccable
Ill!! This is Hip Hop!!
RAKIM ALLAH & BOB JAMES, im in tears of joy. WTF is trap?
THE GOD
I wish I can catch a show with my favorite Mcee✌🏾 from Jerzey Asbury Park/Red Bank and the DMV. Largo MD
sooooooo bomb!!!!
I bought the 2 song record with "Check Out My Melody" on one side and "Eric B for President " the other side
i'm mad at the sound guy for rakim's mic
RAKIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GOAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Follow the leader RakimC #1
The GOD MC 🔥🔥🔥🔥