Eric B & Rakim - Microphone Fiend (Reaction Video)

[@xandermarley8552]

What’s important is to peep the years in which these tracks were made….this is ‘88….lyrically ahead of a lot of material that came out after.

[@richardcarbery7035]

True. Most of the current stars are talented enough to jump back into this particular genre of hip hop. I would be cool to hear them venture into this sort of thing on a track or two.

[@r5photography]

And they worked clean

[@rockod8880]

Big facts

[@omararcher1531]

Every Rakim rhyme is a 10 out of 10. The man changed the way Emcees rapped. He ended careers in the 80s and created new emcees for the 90s and beyond.

[@theDavidChannel1]

Rakim singlehandedly changed the way people rapped. Before he came along everyone was just screaming into the mic with simple rhyme flows. Rakim raised the bar, literally. He is arguably the greatest rapper of all time. These are 35 year old raps and still dope AF and better than most.

[@HaroldMccoy-vv4lt]

Goat ,Nass his closest contemporary.

[@HardCold-Alquan]

LL...

[@may8043]

@@HardCold-Alquan I love LL, but no one could touch Rakim at the time.

[@DJICEMAN_73]

this was one of te FIRST songs where the emcee rhymed all the way through with no hook. shit was bonkers

[@djdedan]

Here are some other hookless classics: Children’s Story by Slick Rick no hook. Peter Piper by Run DMC no hook. Paul Revere by Beastie Boys no hook.

[@tammy-the-truth]

Rakim is the Goat!!!❤❤❤

[@squarednupe4904]

It's simple, there was rap/MCin before Rakim and then rap After RA!! GOD MC 🚀🔥🔥🔥 with no Cussin!! STR8 BARZ

[@oldschoolhip-hopheadriorea9178]

Y'all TRIPPIN that was a 10 ALLDAY! "If that don't slow'em up I carry a full pack"🔥🔥🔫

[@Dirtcake71]

💯!!!!!

[@your_fathershome]

💯

[@rockod8880]

Big facts

[@YhwhKhaiMostHigh]

No one during the 80s dared tried to touch Rakim. They would instantly kill their careers if they tried. He's #1 in the 80s.

[@NightLinks]

Microphone fiend has been one of my all time favorites ever since hit came out.

[@bigdaddypiggy]

He wasn’t lying when he said “I was a fiend,before I came a teen”….Rakim got famous at 19 years old….just think about that for a second 🤔🖤🥶

[@h.claytorjr.4362]

Make it longer than a second. He was 17 when ‘Eric B. For President’.

[@Dredd-od2xs]

U wrong

[@jayyoung1470]

"MY MELODY" The Song Literally CHANGED How Rapper's Rap. This was the Song by the 17 Year Old Microphone Fiend Rakim 🔥

[@BroncoOldSchool]

Greatest hip hop song ever

[@clemwilliams8600]

This my favorite rap song of all time. EB and Rakim. High school years. And this shit STILL HITS!!!!

[@ericanderson7059]

Casulties of War is Rakim at his storytelling best , you're on your way to 1k gentlemen keep pushin .

[@nakumininja]

best nobody write that intellectual lyric

[@sinjinfury1662]

Rakim, for those who haven't noticed, was the only MC that did all his records with no features from other rappers, all his songs, he is on the whole record by himself. Now he did features on other records, but no one featured on his, that shows his catalog of lyrice is extensive.

[@keyopronin4134]

Damn, your Statement is Gospel.

[@Taj_Rahine]

17/10 for me.

[@laylaw1507]

No Omega....His most underrated joint. 🔥🔥🔥

[@brotherwash148]

THAT WAS A 10...!!!

[@joeynatts6542]

'Let the Rhythm Hit Em' and 'Lyrics of Fury' take his rhymes to a whole other level. 'Musical Massacre' is another.

[@MrMmnngghh]

"Lyrics Of Fury" is nuts...blew my brain back then, still does

[@davidyoungsr753]

The GOAT

[@larryconnerjr1835]

One thing about Rakim that stood out to me is if I’m not mistaken he never cursed on any of his songs which became career suicide for rappers in the 90’s and beyond

[@trocktp]

“Mahogany”, “I wanna know what’s on your mind” and “You and I” are 3 dope songs about the ladies by Rakim.

[@marcdavis6719]

One of my faves be the R

[@coolb8545]

The dudes delivery is literally breathtaking💪🏿✊🏿

[@cecilehoward7980]

This is the rap music we grew up listening to. Rap told a story. They don't make it like this no more💯

[@BRENDAJASON1]

One of the heavy hitters back in the day

[@michaelcoffey1991]

Rakim is my own personal GOAT his flow is unheard of even above Biggie, Nas or Em. The best part of hip hop is we may agree on 90% of the top 10 but so many will have different top 3's.

[@cmoney1629]

‘The R”, “don’t sweat the technique”, 2 of my favorite cuts by them . Check them out.

[@selenadiaz2665]

You have no idea...cruise with Bose speakers with the bass shuddering the ground when you're driving playing this...eternal banger

[@michaelway7936]

Yo fam,for some mindblowers,it's a must y'all have to listen to Lyrics of Fury, also Don't Sweat the Technique and from the movie Juice(1992)Know the Ledge

[@YFGMBlogTv]

I love young people going back listening to classic rap songs

[@cheftekniqakabuletteborn8127]

rakim is my #1 MC ever listen to the master Albam

[@CJ-jl5yg]

Some top ones is "let the rhythm hit em" and "the 18th letter" which is probably one of best.

[@smokezilla13.]

Salute for going back to the beginning and learning about this beautiful thing we call hip-hop. The only way we know where we’re going is to know where we came from.

[@rodneygriffin3521]

One of Rakim's best but mostly slept on is 'As the Rhyme flows on', another on is 'Guess Who's Back'.

[@omarmcneil163]

Knowledge will begin when I finish this song ....bars

[@mascos69]

Rakim is the reason why I started listening to hiphop

[@TimrodRa]

10. That's a damn 10😂😂

[@spaceistheplace8376]

true hip hop right there ,id say even peak in it

[@micheledaly5823]

Y'all wilding.this man changed the cadence of rhyming. Before him rappers rhymed the last words of sentences together. He rhymes every other word together and there's levels to everything he says.Hes dropping knowledge plus being witty too. Put some respect on the God MC's name. 8.5 my ass.

[@d3mist0clesgee12]

them jingle bells still ringn since the 80s, still my cut

[@TyronHickson]

Thing about this track is he did the entire track without a breath. He's known for his wind longevity. Try lyrics of fury

[@infinitecontent8001]

When he said I ain't no joke, he was not playing....

[@dm2578]

Rakim lyrics of fury is his best work, the song is about the panic attack an opposing MC gets going toe to toe with him

[@Gabriel-gv1mx]

Eric B & Rakim's often slept on joint "Run For Cover" is outstanding lyrically.

[@shelbytreadway4687]

A crazy thing about how Rakim just blows all others away is that he never used a single cuss word in any song, ever. Think about that 😮🤔

[@clevelandlawrence]

He cursed

[@stanDbyme1963]

Y'all don't do a lot talking and I appreciate that.

[@veautifulstranger]

Eric B & Rakim, the first hip hop artist to sign a million-dollar contract. And one can see why.

[@Truthteller58-z3c]

My Favorite is Let the Rythem Hit"em

[@hustler3of4culture3]

Agreed

[@mobettaone7795]

The greatest one verse song ever!

[@justkaz1985]

CHECK OUT: ERIC B. & RAKIM- "LYRICS OF FURY". THE TITLE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. NO VIDEO BUT DEFINITELY WORTH THE LISTENING!🗣🔥

[@your_fathershome]

Kool G Rap also did Men At Work with the same beat, it's hard to choose which was better. They both tore it up.

[@johnmegalodon]

BARS 🔥🔥🔥

[@lethaldose2000]

You could check out one of my favorite album cuts from Rakim. "Mohogany" its like a ghetto love song, but hard.

[@thecodetalker5742]

Instant like

[@Greg-h2y]

Legend

[@raynay1500]

I love the whole album.

[@alvinyoungblood408]

One of my favorite Eric B and Rakim songs is "Mahogany", he actually curses once in this song, but it's definitely dope. You should also check out "Move the Crowd", and "You Know I Got Soul"

[@truther4life]

My Melody....Eric B Is President....Lyrics Of Fury

[@michaelgrimes8326]

rakim NEVER misses

[@xandermarley8552]

I ain’t no joke is ‘86-‘87…..Hip Hop should be timelines as Before Rakim and After Rakim.

[@Spaaceyankee]

Its why we old school gen Xer's white or black call him the god. You young cats didnt think our old school artists couldnt spit crazy bars, listen to these 80's founding fathers of bars.Starts with the "R", then include in no order. Kool G rap, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-ONE, LL, Chuck D.

[@olybobby]

I get the exact same goosebumps today as I did when I was 12 listening to this masterpiece - gdamn

[@mackdanny1703]

11 out of 10.

[@herb2181]

Ladies&Gentlemen: you've just witnessed the greatest rapper within our lifetime- period

[@MaNIC805_]

No competition musical massacre know the ledge don't sweat the technique

[@Geena860]

This song right here is when i fell in law with hip hop. I was 12

[@RealDukeOfEdinburgh]

Casualties of War Let the Rhythm Hit Em

[@shelbytreadway4687]

You want bars that will blow your mind? Eric B and Rakim "The Ghetto". Simply amazing

[@Charles-qm3mo]

Classic

[@jofoto612]

Rakim is the Goat 🐐

[@rodneybrown2496]

You know I got soul one of they best!!!!

[@teeblack06]

Gotta check out Eric B. & Rakim - "Lyrics of Fury" and "Let The Rhythm Hit'em"

[@EdwardHart-z6v]

Rakim aka the GOD MC

[@nimrod1d6]

The GOD MC.

[@tonyclark8132]

If you want more Eric B and Rakim you should check out My Melody. That was a song that he originally wrote at like 16 years old and has in my opinion the greatest bar in hip hop. That’s where the “7 MC Theory” comes from. It doesn’t have a video to it but you will love it. That’s one of the songs that put him on the map

[@jodyariewitz7349]

❤

[@DisplacedAfrican1]

The God

[@Poetryman68]

Rakim changed the Game as far as lyrical skill....everybody had to step they game up.

[@melvinmcclain8127]

Listen to Mahogany. That beat is so sick. Guaranteed it will amaze you if you never heard it.

[@brickspjs4l792]

Rakim,,,,my melody,,,

[@derrickkearney7998]

Y’all next Rakim REACTION🎤🎤 has to be “Let the Rhythm Hit EM!!!! GUN BARS🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@vincentwilliams71]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@mikesknicks]

The God MCee

[@danieljohnson4530]

This and My Philosophy are the two songs that changed rap for me sonically!! LL was the one who changed the sound!!

[@militaryfelon]

Check out "I want to know what's on your mind" lyrics banging on that one

[@thomascrown6553]

Lyrics of fury...Eric b Rakim

[@leetheaarceneaux8151]

Eric B & Rakim Mahogany

[@Tddj11]

That Beat

[@BKthoroughbred]

if you think about this song was made in about 1987-1988. So it’s about 35 years old. Hip Hop Music in its current state (two turntables and mic) hit 50 years in 2023. If you just start at 1979 (the year of the first record on wax) and go to 2000. You’d have 21 years worth of music to react to. Try Rakim’s “Causality if War” it was made in 1992. An interesting thing about the song is that one can make the case that Rakim predicts the 9/11 attacks that takes place 9 years later. So you can add Prophet to the God MC as well.

[@clemwilliams8600]

It’s 2024 and RA is still the god , still the best MC of all time. As hard as PAC was he’s #2 DMX 3

[@razer354]

Th silence is the perfect respect

[@KevinPayton-fq8gd]

Try listening to Don't Sweat the Technique. That's my favorite Eric B. and Rakim song.

[@neuvocastezero1838]

He doesn't let up.

[@user-wc7mm5xz5r]

Cool ..and than I jet kick a hole in the speaker pull the plug and then I jet

[@jelorocprojects6924]

The God MC moniker comes from him being a 5 Percenter (Nation of Gods and Earths) but it does also apply to his lyrical ability.

[@moebetta72]

If you put that joint in comparison of what was out at the time, it's a 10 of 10. "I was a fiend, before I became a teen I melted Microphones instead of cones of Ice Cream. Music Orientated so when Hip-Hop was CREATED, Fitted like Pieces of Puzzles...... COMPLICATED" There is NO Opening verse of ANY song that epitomizes of what being an Emcee is more than that.

[@stefangaither5453]

10 no baseline and no cursing and no n word

[@michaelgrimes8326]

Long Island

[@willisacademyofhigherlearn5327]

Rakim is the rappers rapper

[@josesantiago4651]

Rakim guess who's back is dope, you gotta do Big Pun beware, HARLEM NYC STAND UP!!! 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷💪

[@LaBelleGames]

Nice

[@teesogrimey6457]

Do let the rhythm hit em

[@druskiluv2845]

My Brothas, "My Melody" would be a great next reaction, because Rakim makes references to it in several other songs. THEN, "In The Ghetto" because its right up your alley.