Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2009
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Music video by Eric B. & Rakim performing Paid In Full. (C) 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Rakim was called the first ever real MC in hip hop, back then hip hop was just reciting lyrics. Rakim invented ‘flow’ and changed hip hop forever
Vote Eric B & RAKIM into The RnR Hall of Fame 2024!
Eric B for President 😂 They are above the RRHOF. That whole organization is a racket to squeeze artists for $20k/ticket, while using their attendance, performances, etc for the financial gain of the owner of the RRHOF. Last I heard, it was owned by the same guy who owns Rolling Stone magazine lol
No dope MC in hiphop needs an award for validation. Those who know already love them.
@@cym634 I was gonna say it, too. What E and R is, is bigger than the RRHOF
Pls tell me someone still listening to this masterpiece in 2024?!?!
Of course
discovering this for the first time. i’m turning 24 and i think with maturity and growth, i can finally listen to true hip hop music. That conscious shit !!!!
Only those who have a good taste of music are here
Right here fam
Still...massive tune
Rakim and krs1 are amongst the best to ever handle the mic 🎤
Can't argue with that.
💯💯💯💯
Can't forget LL Cool J
🎯🎯🎯🎯
This shit is art. This track was so ahead of it’s time. Eric B and Rakim were so insanely brilliant. We even knew it in 1988 y’all.
They truly changed hip-hop when this dropped
And I was born in the 90s lol
Back then the debate between who was the best came down to two. Rakim or Big daddy Kane. I personally thought MOE Dee was just as good been back then. But after going back and listening to KRS ONE I’ve revised my top 4. 1. Rakim 2. MOE DEE 3. KRS ONE 4. Big daddy Kane.
So ahead of its time, it’s scary
The best bit is when he says "THINKING OF A BASTARD PLAN"
Pls tell me someone still listening to this masterpiece in 2020?!?!
Off course the g.o.d. it it should be on your permanent playlist in your head like me 1
Yeaaaah
Takes me back to my younger days
Its a classic
Hell yeah!!!
who's still bumping to this in 2024
me
Here too
Yurrrr🎉
Every day brother
Gen x
When Will Smith first recorded "Summertime" his producer said his voice pitch was too high and his delivery too fast. He asked Will to rap using his Rakim impression. Summertime became a classic after that. Will thanked Rakim many years later for his influence.
Will and Rakim never cruse in their records, or use the N word... find me an artist who can rap like today
@@ghostlover951Gza and Method Man ( Med started doing it some years back but Gza has had the ability to since day 1) there's a few others too
@@danielwilson9724 you serious? I never noticed that.. ima get that out... thanks for that info
Summertime was a hit the millisecond after the music was chosen
@@ghostlover951 I think Rakim says "Knocking n****s out" on that Juice record
1986: This is a good song
2019: This is a good song
2074: This is a good song
What about 1919?
its created in 1987
2080: It's an okay song.
Also 2080: Civilization collapses.
@@getupstairstobed 😂😂
@@ghettoasfuckxp 🤣🤣👌
One of the greatest hiphop tracks of all time
Eric B & Rakim hated the Coldcut mix ... silly.
Not sure which is better, Paid In Full or Follow The Leader.
@UCHE ODUNZEH" ABSOLUTELY "
Absolutely!
Probably is
Born 91 south Bronx where hip-hop was started at and still listen to this in 2023 the real hip-hop, not genocide and degrading our people hip-hop 🔥🔥
Born 91 in Las Vegas, NV and I brush my teeth to this!
This culture is lost now a day
Dude, you're born in 91 hillarious. All us Gs were popping in the clubs to this while you were breastfeeding millenial. Sit down kid, you grew up to Minimal. When were you in the bars bro! 2010 ROTFL...
No joke - out of job for months, trying to lift up a business, whistling and nodding my head to this, when I need a fresh air.
As longs as I have tunes like this in my life - there is no way those would steer me wrong.
Rakim - thanks for capturing those moments in such a masterpiece. Still touching souls of many us, I am certain.
GF: He's probably thinking about other women
Me: Thinkin of a master plan
Purple Haze 😂
📚📝📊📈💵🏡🏰⛲🌄🌇🌆🗻🌃🙌🙏👌💯
🤣🤣🤣
W
Purple Haze such facts Jimi 😂
The Paid in Full Album should be in the library of congress
Yep
It is
That’s funny
😃
illmatic definitely should
Rakim the greatest lyricist rapper of all time!
fr
I second that the best to pick up a microphone
nah
That's what Jay-Z said
Hip hop comes from Rakim
I am a 52-year-old father of two girls. This is the only song I INSISTED they both learn when they were kids so we could sing it together on care rides.
Good Dad!🎶🎶🎶🎶
outstanding Fatherhood, it only comes around once in a lifetime.
Thinkin of a master plan....
@@KG-th3cr 80's -90' brother!!
@@KG-th3cr how about King Kut?
Paid In Full feels like the opening credits to the golden age of Hip Hop
that's because it was
that along with Ice T and Eazy E
OJ’s Bloody Glove great comment...
Facts man just plain facts
word
This is a work of art, the rap equivalent of bohemian rhapsody
excellent point
Absolutely 💯
Agreed.
RIGHT ON!
One of the greatest tracks ever made.
Is the greatest
LETS LAUGH, I PLAYED THIS SONG, MY GRANDDAUGHTER ASK ME WHY WE AS OLDER FOLKZ USING HER GENERATION BEATS.....I LOOKED, LAUGHED AND SAID YALL UNGREATFULL KIDS ARE WELCOME NOW GO DO YA REAL HOMEWORK
When hip hop was good
Totally agree.
Exactly
My dad loved this song. He used to bump this all the time when i was young. Lost him two weeks ago. RIP Oscar Raymond Warren Jr....❤️
Your Dad had superb taste! Sorry for your loss Oscar.
Soory for your lost he sure knew what was good music god bless his soul
Hes smiling from the sky ! Stay strong !
Condolences, sounds like a great guy.
Your dad was Oscar Warren Jr and you Sr? How tf does that happen
Brings me tears to hear this again after so many years, such beauty, authenticity, love.
Rakim revolutionized music.
This that European remix. I think he was the first to do a remix
Then you gta imagen how i feel, this was and still is my jam
Early 90's
@@yolaeddie9830 , late 80’s. I remember because I couldn’t go to the house party my neighbor was having…
Real Rap!!! Old School will forever be Superior to today's mainstream Rap!
Todays so called music is Trash cant stand that crap. Im always on youtube going back to the old days
Yes. There wasn't mumbling in the old days.
Listening in 2024 🔥
This was beyond hip hop. It moved the culture of hip hop into a different space... Paid And Full raised the bar of how in sync an Emcee and a DJ could be on a record... Eric B & Rakim set the tone for hip hop to move to the next level within main stream music .. The visuals with the lyrics, it was all so ground breaking.
I agree. Check out Rakim's Lyric Breakdown ua-cam.com/video/zg3xcZnzbCw/v-deo.html
Well said.
@@johnnytorino9455 g
nah rakim and eric singlehandded destroyd rap music.
electronic sytnhi only, no sampling. bad lyrics like a 1st. grader mean muggin , glorify gangbanging.
theese major label selling donkeys are artist lmao .they just sold u racist uneducated crap
guys, if you love real hip hop, please watch on UA-cam a short story of former music executive Krayzie Bone, who speak about a special meeting, that happened in year 1991 in LA, which changed the entire hip hop music industry, you can find this on YT: "Krayzie bones exposes the secret meeting that destroyed our generation"
The album that inspired the Wu-Tang Clan, The Notorious BIG, Tupac, Nas, Kool G Rap, Eminem, 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar
Greatness inspires greatness
2pac even made a song about it
Well said, One of my favorite tunes
Kool G Rap? As far as I know they are from the same era in even Kool G Rap did a 12" single in 1986, before this masterpiece came out
I wonder what inspired Eric B. & Rakim to make this one album?
This inspired some Japanese EDM artist from 90s-2000s too.
Paid in Full is literally in my top 10 greatest Hip Hop tracks of all time 👍🏾😁
My Melody is the greatest hip hop track, in my opinion.
It is a moment
@@Musicienne-DAB1995THAT JOINT ROCKED HARD!!! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿✌🏿
Smooth
Who’s here lovin this groove!!? ❤
Everyone talking about how great R is, but how about that BEAT
+Zane Dietlin eric b all daaaay
+Zane Dietlin actually they were talking about how great Eric be.
+Zane Dietlin listen, rakim allah is the greatest that ever touched the mic. point blank.
+Zane Dietlin "Ashley's Roachclip" by The Soul Searchers
+Zane Dietlin one of the most epic & recognized hip hop beatz eva!!!
We just paid off our mortgage and I been pumping this song repeatedly feels great
Paid in full sure! Congrats!
Congrats!
Legend.
Yo congrats Tisha !
Good energy for you and your family for now on!
I’ll never forget hearing this for the time blaring from my sister’s room. When she would leave, I’d sneak in her room to play the record over and over. The meld of that woman singing, the conga drums, the hard beat, the random samples, their rhyme…it is a journey into sound.
The singing is a sample from Ofra Haza - Im Nin'alu. Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer.
The best duo that ever did it…
They were way beyond their time.
This man's flow was ahead of it's time
he makes it look like there's no effort at all to it. true master!
His whole being was ahead of its time it's like no one can really compare except Nas....Eric b mix was dope af
No maybe you late
Far ahead. Eric was waaay beyond his era.
BDK was the only one better
holy crap this version is even better than the album one (they're still both good)
Eshq coldcit cold cut remix is the king
Eshq 7 minutes of madness
Eshq how'd you find it? 😏
+#336600 Ol' Dirty Bastard Viesky™ blasted it on the speakers its amazing
Eshq told ya :D
Glad you like it
This album changed hip hop forever, the greatest lyricist of all-time EASILY
Nobody even comes close to Rakim. This album turned the culture on its ear with its impact still felt to this very moment. The GOD MC indeed. He earned that title. 👑
Rakim is the greatest ever.
1987 as a young teen listening to this on my Sony Walkman.
You were a teen in the 80s? Lucky as fuck. It was late 80s but still.
Me too! On my way to school in queens.
Sigh....on leave fm rm school to join first ship......damn.....
@@calvinwalkerwalker5698 Check CHABO ma Region in UA-cam,,,and give me your mean pleace,,,Listen!
2019 blastin it on UA-cam✊🏽✊🏽
I bought this album on vinyl when it was first out ... moved 13 times and it’s still in my music collection.
Its in ours too! check out ua-cam.com/video/zg3xcZnzbCw/v-deo.html
That's what u do when u love something u take it everywhere u go it becomes part of u 🙏👊💯🎯
I had an over 500 cd collection of all best 1990s underground and mainstream hip hop, rap, bass music and it was all stolen when I moved to Tallahassee in college back in early 2000s.
@@jeremystark3350 sorry to hear about that
@@davidpouncy8471 you are so right
Still a kickass classic. "This is a journey" plays into my head 24 years later without thought or warning
36 years…Man
even to this day , i dont think anyone reliases how much of a groundbreaking record this was...it was on some levels others couldnt reach only copy...pure genius, the start of an amazing journey for all of us
Yep you can’t mention Hip Hop and not this record
to hip hop, sure, but the most groundbreaking album of all time is debut black sabbath, it literally molded music for the next 50 years. you still can't possibly learn guitar without learning riffs, and the pioneer and god of riffing is tony iommi, no doubt.
@@youruncleted clearly we’re talking about hiphop..
@@nematoad sorry yo no hablo monkey
Samples, Tight rhyming schemes, Scratches and a baseline that is out of this world. In regards to the comment mentioning the Black Sabbath album - Much Props to that album but lessons from this one song are felt not only by hip hop to this day, but along a myriad of other musical genres that cross sample and utilize ad libs the same way rakim uses the hypnotic phrase "Paid in full"
The way people look at you when you pull up blasting actual Hip Hop music is priceless
Word is born. From newark n i blasted this today n everybody froze when i came to a light.
Yep when I'm at the red light in my little 83 Toyota Dolphin RV with my Dingo dog named Dog, and I'm over 60, just about dancing in seat. I love seeing the reaction from youngsters. My dog Dog loves hip hop too.
@@patriciacooper1308 your dog sounds like a G
We get it.
Old good
New bad.
@@CodenameJameslee I like both 😎❤️
We need a documentary on how this record came about. MASTERPIECE even the MIX is phenomenal.
I miss the old days.☝🏾
Never heard anything better in Rap, and don't forget I'm 79 and white!
Daaaamn pops, you are cool 😎 BTW I'm 55 and used to dance to this in the clubs 😄
Dope
becouse rakim is god of mc best of all time
@Loa neither plus nor minus, just a fact
Glad ya like it pops ❤
I grew up listening to Rakim he's one of the best rap lyricist to ever pick up the 🎤
Yes he is one of a kind MC rapper
Yep... cause he's a Microphone Fiend! 🎤🎶♥️
The best to ever do it
Em might place just under him.
He holds the mic like a grudge! 😉
i can hear 5+ hip hop classics inside this, its crazy
One of the greatest hip hop tracks of all-time!
Absolutely
This gem was released exactly 32 years ago.July 7 , 1987. 🎼🎶🎵🎶🎵🎼🎶🎵🎶.
Damn that's when I was born may 7 1987 in I'm 32
Joseph Mungai I was a freshman in high school.
Dang I was 4 months old .to think I'm rocking it still my brother
I remember that very clearly.....done some dancing to this track
That's the day my uncle was born exactly
No cussing....
No use of Nigga...
Nice bars...
Nice beat...
Authentic.
Destined4Greatness exactly
Obvioisly this is the origins of hip hop..
He started cussing in his later songs though.
nigga
Destined4Greatness .He obviously had the Masterplan..ruined by today's junk .Eric B and Rakim paved the road but it got destroyed from there to today. Oldskool best School
Rakim was Pioneer of hip hop
I’m 25yrs old & I’ve been listening to back in the day music , i like it more than the new music . 😌
lol fun fact: both Eminem and Tupac consider Rakim the best MC ever. So when these kids come and do these comments it is just for laughs. Poor little kids. Know nothing but what they are fed by the mainstream media.
Amen to that😂😂😂
Terrell James
hehe u know pac well
TheGuy0verTh3r3
Are u refering to me there? Comment about mainstream for attention? What te fuck are you talking about, besides putting 2 different eras into the same basket. Previous mainstream you cant compare to todays mainstream in any scenario. People used to have radios, tvs and tapes only back then.Their stuff barely reached anyone. Now every bullshit can be spread instantly over the internet and other media. You are just some random hater/naysayer. Go back to the cave where you came from stupid.
lol rakim also thinks eminem is one of the best to spit on the mic, anything else you want to say?
Fun Fact...2 Pac said he would destroy Rakim
OVER 30 YEARS OLD AND STILL A SUPERMASTERPIECE!!!!
1987 🗿
1987 🗿
Yeah that's the truth
The intro is goosebumps all time!
I was 19
This is still a vibe
RAKIM was one of the best rappers ever. He took hip hop to a whole different level in the mid to late 80's. The PAID IN FULL album in 86 was fire. No one did it like him back then. Definitely in my top 5 of greatest rappers ever.
To me there are 3 songs that changed HipHop at the time of their release. One is "The Message" It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under. Then came "Sucker MC" by Run DMC. You didn't hear rap like that at that time. Then finally came "Dead President s" by Eric B and Rakim. Those 3 songs took rap to another level. In my opinion those are probably the most influencal rap hits of all time. Changed the game after that. If you disagree, let me know what you think is more influencal.
Is STILL one of the greatest …
Rakim is definitely the greatest hip hop artist of all time! It's a damn shame so many young kids don't watch any of his video he was way ahead of his time. Before Rakim everybody was yes yes ya'll after him Rhyme patterns became the norm. Salute to the GOD
One of the best to do it Ever
@yabghus I got some Jordan's Yesterday I feel happy cuz I'm the only one on my city with them 😎
I don’t know about the best, but he definitely started the era of hip hop telling the stories from the hood, which never went away and probably won’t. Most people forget, the world was introduced to rap by Rappers Delight.
No he is not...don't be silly... thats like saying the guy who invented candles is greater than Tesla...sure both inventions were excellent for their time but even now rap/hip-hop artists are in general better than artists back then....dont be silly
@@provethioaltum3276 Are we even supposed to care? What do jordans have anything to do with this. Is it cause Michael Jordan is black and Rakim is black. Is it cause those two raided Fort Knox and Area 51. Is it because they were gang bangers? Why do you pick on people like this? Does it make you happy? Im just kidding man...
that kicked ass
Okay Beavis
One of the greatest HIP HOP CLASSICS
Still rocking in 24 🇮🇪
Still flying!
Rap Box parabéns pelo trampo de qualidade!
3:29 "Was it good enough fo ye"Paauusse LMAO I love this song
still being made uncomfortable ... you're flying and I'm frying!
Rap Box br que ama hip hop e outra coisa!
Você por aqui?
how the hell did rakim have this level of visuals and rhyme before everyone
Good question. Might be somthing on that in the art of hip hop documentary by ice t.
@@jasonwade9160 honestly rakim can body most rappers today
The GOD for a reason.
very the era
He was signed .simple
Rakim is the God sent to make sense for his brothers before him, no names our individual need to be named 70&80&90& late 90's
This is a journey...
Trust. Me. This style gonna come back. Sooner than you think.
We can only hope 👍
Eminem is Coming
I was just thinking something similar today.
Em's gonna bring it back.
Let's hope
Rakim is honestly the greatest of all time.
Nah pac is
Yes, I agree.
Without eric b, rakim wouldnt have these beats.
That goes to nasty NAS
Nasty Nas
this song is a Master Piece, Phenomenal, Legendary, all the same time
This king brought flow to rap
Legend❤
At 48 years old I can still rap this song word for word 😌 I’ll never forget it
No way
Just wait til that dementia hits 😂
@@badddd LOL
im 48 and I can also. rakim grew up a couple of miles from me in wyndanch NY. I tried sampling this song in high school as a senior in 89. lotta good rappers from Long Island back in the day.
56 and it’s still as fresh today as when we played it the boozer on the juke
It’s 2022, who still listening to this masterpiece????
You’re a legend
I know I know, you too x
Thinkin of a master plan
Yooo
we are all legends!
Legends
the song was my enlightenment❤50 years of hip hop!
Mad respect to the OGs of hip hop.
I can tell you as a Palestinian New Yorker born in the 70’s in the streets of Queens, when I would hear Rakim I always felt proud and this song will always be legendary! Hearing the Arab rhythms, the belly dancers that always reminded me of my Pops and the energy of the city deeply embedded in this 👊🏾💛
Your daddy was a belly dancer ?
the arab rhythyms is Im Nin'Alu by Ofra Haza, a yemenite jew from israel
@Bladed Candle
Not to mention Rakim was and IS a proud Muslim.
All of the samples, including Im Nin'Alu by Ofra Haza, were added by British duo Coldcut.
@agioni99 lmao he's not Muslim. Rakim is a 5 percenter.
dope af still in 2016
relevant!...
love it
Yup
rakim's rhymes/style stands the test of time
As a kid I always got scared of the intro. I think I was about 14... :-)
yes.fuck yes.
This beat goes hard 🙀🙀🙀
This beat is an all time classic…. Ageless & Timeless .. Thank You Brother🙌🏿🥂🍾🤩‼️
Paid in Full is the album that aged well!
LOL! Found you. Nice to see you here
@@yunarukami14 Aw, dang! How did you find me?
@@zackzallie8735 Hehe. I’m omnipresent
listened to it, when it came out. my buddy had a knack for picking albums. Partied in the northwoods to this album great at 2am in the middle of nowhere.
It is, and check out ua-cam.com/video/zg3xcZnzbCw/v-deo.html
This song could be released right now in 2023 and would still be a hit record 🎯
No it really couldn't be. The whole reason I came across this is cause I'm tired of the PC Now BS and went back in time to this good kinda tunes again. It'd be blasphemy to make now. In which way I dunno but I know it would be picked apart to death if made now
@@ericbarrone4130 ok Billy O'Reilly
@@sketcharmstrong8491 😂
@@ericbarrone4130 word
nah it wouldnt, cuz these sorry ass kids nowadays.. bro 💀they dont even know what real music is💀all they listen to is pop, rock and that new autotune fucked rainbow rap shit (which i dont even wanna call rap, i dont even wanna call it music at all 😂id rather call it shit. just SHIT bruh) its sad ngl but yo 😎at least me n u found our ways to the realeness 😎we chillin bruh, peace, stay positive, stay questionin
Obviously this is also the reason I love hip hop. It's run DMC. Krs one. And Eric b rakim. I know every word of every song. Keep peace!
1987? wayyyyy ahead of its time. GENIUS.
OH YEAH
Stacie Jones Eric B and Rakim take no credit for this remix.
Yeah, this is Cut Chemist's remix, but they're still ahead of their time. This album is fuckin' timeless though, if you get the expanded edition it comes with this remix and others.
@@marcjohn9404 cheers. didn't know that!! GREAT remix then.... what samples....
happiness is seeing the comments and knowing that there's still true hip hop fan alive xD !
Fans*
wanna know about true hip hop
sadness is seeing the support on this shitty song and seeing what age does to people
LMAO @ a bunch of white people talking about "true hip hip" stay in your own lane snowflakes
You're an idiot.
Real hip hop!!!
If Rakim is not on the Top 5-10, then the list is null and void.
Exactly
Shout out all my young g's that listen to real hip hop 💪🏾
joshy d, I'm 15 chur
yooozaaa chur
I’m 11
16
joshy d I'm 2
This is what scared the government about HipHop , this realness.
Hahahahahhahaha
and then they knocked off biggie and tupac and replaced them with p diddy. god, save us all from this mess..... they flipped hip hop for product placement.......
They hijacked it made ppl think they’re all thugs sadly rappers nowadays only cAre about materialistic shit they forget the struggle that produced hip hop it got ppl off the streets
Preach
Listen to 2 rappers from England they rap about corrupt governments etc they’re called , Akala and lowkey two of the best rappers let me tell you
Epic classic! Timeless masterpiece!
Full on genius. Beyond cool.
I was born in 85 still bumping this in 2024 🔥🔥🔥🔥
1990 still bumpin this🔥🔥
'83 here and this song use to come on in the morning before I went to school. My Dad says I used to kill it getting ready to walk out the door lol!!
The what happened to peace part id turn my lil 5yo self around and say ✌🏿
From The Blues to Rap the musical Genius of Black Americans
blues and rap are actually pretty similar, afro americans created it and basically you sing / rap your story, your life , your love pain.
Let's not forget jazz and the inspiration for rock and roll. #blackexcellence
and don't forget house and early techno.
Please understand.... The sampling, the disc spinning, the carefully-crafted lyrics and simplistic subliminal messages in the video... This is real hip hop. And we might not ever get it again 🥺
Exactly right sister
We are on our way to get something evolutionary, thanks to legends like rakim to inspire a whole generation
Let's feel blessed that we were there when it blew up. It sucks to see where hip-hop/rap is going.
sampling from Ofra Haza im in alu. song
@@furtuna28 just came back to listening to that.. her voice was beautiful and eric b did a great job on getting those special vocals of hers and put it into this track. all of that makes it a masterpiece.
Rakim is a god MC but we all know that, what doesn't get talked about enough in HipHop history though is how revolutionary Eric B was in terms of mixing and production, he was never the flashiest DJ in a purely technical sense but his ear for picking and mixing samples and his sense of timing and rhythm and pacing were all incredible, and nobody was making beats as diverse as B was back then, people always talk about Paul's Boutique as being a revolutionary album (and it was and still is) but without Eric B doin it first then the Beastie Boys would have never been inspired to make Paul's Boutique
The original gangsters. Talent, style and no need to curse.
One of the greatest hip hop records of all time.
Ofra Haza's voice still gives me chills
These guys go above and beyond racism and all the crap in the world .......EVERYONE was down with this.......and we STILL are !
THIS VIDEO DOES SOMETHING TO ME !
True talent. No profanity with a hint of sexy but not overt... Classic style & message. Paid In Full!
this paid in full beat is godly
fun fact: nas's h to the omo diss, and tupac's hit em up diss, both sample the same bassline of this beat
+chico malo And taken originally from 'Don't look any further' by Dennis Edwards. Another class act and top tune.
H To the OMO is a freestyle over the beat actually.
+SANDSCORCHER yep
+tomtik101 yeah I know, hit em up is the one that just really borrows the baseline.
+0LolaLola lol shut your ass up
one of the most iconic songs and albums in hip hop
In MUSIC (and I'm a rock / metal head)
Agreed! Check out Rakim's Lyric Breakdown ua-cam.com/video/zg3xcZnzbCw/v-deo.html
This shit makes Me wanna fuckin cry yo. 2:42 This is TRUE hip hop! What tha fuck is going on wit tha stuff that's out? Not all but A lot! Jus sayin. So blessed...so thankful I grew up with true Hip hop TrueNess! My lord! So grateful! If I didn't have this on my life...in my soul? ....I just dont know. Thank you!
yo a 36 years since release this is classical music, isn't it?
Rakim had the clearest delivery of all rappers. Each syllable was perfect, intonation and accent exactly where he wanted your attention.
The sonic wall of samples was a masterpiece and nothing like this could be done today due to copyright laws