FIRST TIME HEARING Eric B. & Rakim - My Melody REACTION

[@w.a.mproductionsinc9340]

Thank goodness my generation was blessed with this dude RAKIM single handedly changed the flow of hip hop

[@chillyice3573]

The 7 MCs line was voted greatest rhyme in hip hop history!!

[@w.a.mproductionsinc9340]

@chillyice3573 thst is ill but the next rhyme is even better when he says "My strategy has to be tragedy catastrophe and after this you'll call me your majesty" Thsts like WOW!

[@chillwill8108]

As it should 💯💯💯💯💯

[@Armil1]

I’m an Old Head and it’s been cool watching you experience some of this old school music for the first time. It reminds me of my first time experiencing it! 💪🏾💪🏾

[@WarriorsCherub999]

This is why we watch these joints because we smile watching the bars hit these youngins like they hit us. When i see their faces start to screw up. I know they feelin it😂😂😂😂

[@marcosgarcia25]

I feel the same exact way. Love watching good reactions of classic golden age hip hop. “Know the Ledge” please

[@Bighjr88]

@@WarriorsCherub999Say it again.

[@Bighjr88]

Yall youngins should heard how this sounded in a system(upgraded radio and speakers) back in the 86-87!

[@klasyk1532]

Yes yes yes Youngblood! This the joint that changed EVERYTHING (along with "Make em Clap to this"! That "7 Mcee line" is my favorite in Rap!

[@thatdamelana]

Rakim is the GOAT. This is my favorite cut.. We grew up together. We used to hang in the streets & the park and he’d DJ before he blew up rapping. He’s humble, a gentleman & a genius MC. Strong Island🗽

[@lamarhoward2295]

Great history Bro 😎 STL my favorite all time GOAT 🐐

[@myround0]

As the rhyme flows on.

[@WarriorsCherub999]

That joint is slept on.

[@Bighjr88]

1984-1988, to me the greatest period in rap!

[@oldschoolhip-hopheadriorea9178]

"I take seven emcees put 'em in a line, And add seven more brothers who think they can rhyme, Well, it'll take seven more before I go for mine, Now that's twenty-one emcees ate up at the same time" 🔥🔥🙏🏿#GODBARS #RAKIMALLAH #THEGOD

[@noaldowney2403]

bars on bars on bars

[@WarriorsCherub999]

On barz

[@Daytons-Finest]

Move The Crowd was another 🔥 🔥 joint from them

[@make1thappen267]

“With knowledge of self there’s nothing I can’t solve, at 360 degrees I revolve”🔥🔥🔥

[@Daytons-Finest]

@make1thappen267 🔥

[@WarriorsCherub999]

I'm measured with the heat thats made by suns. ✊🏿

[@Bighjr88]

The 80s was & still unmatched, from the streets,music,dressing(style) which millennial-generation Z think they invented & our hoooping,football & boxing was better.

[@Armil1]

You should react to Microphone Fiend by Eric B & Rakim! A Lyrical Gem!

[@Jaybarka]

Pound For Pound The Greatest Written Body Of Work In Rap HISTORY!!! F.Y.I. He Was Only 17 Years Old 😮

[@mathematicalfacts1439]

BIGGG FACT'S 💯

[@xomack9344]

The rhymes the beats and the scratching had a whole different vibe to it. We used break beats and samples from 60’s and 70’s soul music and funk music (respect our elders before us✌🏽

[@IENetworkTV]

So now hearing this now you know why he said in I ain’t no joke “ so pucker up and whistle My Melody. And now you see what he meant by. You’ll be one of those 7 emcees

[@aceking875]

I swear before Rakim, you never heard anyone put words, put lyrics together like this. He was and is lyrically amazing, thats why we call him the "God Emcee" (MC)

[@williamwalsh1533]

What about Kool Moe D?

[@Philly2Gunz]

U gotta touch MAHOGANY before u jump into another bag!!! TRUST

[@BODominicanYork]

This is one of those‼️

[@Bleek17Six]

Fun fact; Teairra Mari - Make her feel good Sampled this track. The whistle part melody specifically. Teairra Mari was buzzing in the mid 2000s because of that Song. She was singed to The Roc in that period too. Jay Z Made a Cameo in the video & a few other notable people.

[@KtotheG]

Marley Marl did much of the production on the album. Eric B. was on the cuts and scratches.

[@myround0]

It’s been a long “time”I shouldn’t left you/ without a strong “rhyme” ta step to.

[@Puiffanick]

Had me doing the whop listening to this. Str8 crack era, rope chains, 4 finger rings, casals, Europeans kitted out.

[@djcswiftthaone3074]

Rakim produced 80% of his own music 🎼

[@xomack9344]

The mixin, cutting and scratchin was much better then today’s

[@wheelerwon]

This is the 1st song he cussed on. “The same weak shit…putting words that don’t fit in the rhyme..why waste time…”. I have the original single…it’s there

[@derrickkearney7998]

DexTV,,,,, u are blowing up!!!!! With Rakim reactions🎤🎤🎤🎤 Now u gotta do Ra’s “Let the Rhythm Hit EM” “Juice(Know The Ledge)” “Follow The Leader” “Lyrics of Fury” “Kick Along”👀👀👀👀👀

[@MentuSun]

yeah bro thats from the days when you rap about how nice you can rap love it!

[@RasPsalm]

Marly Marl...thats a name you need to learn. He is the real producer. He is the person who brought sampling to hiphop

[@jeffreyharvey9919]

This is the song that birthed "flow" as we think of it today. When the double sided "Eric B for President"/"My Melody" single dropped in '86, the early '80s style of rapping was immediately outdated and everybody started patterning their style after Rakim. Run-DMC was selling out stadiums at the time, but even DMC said he knew he and Run's time was running out after this.

[@juanwilson2313]

All old heads have their favorite of Rakim....I bet his favorite of his own is Move The Crowd.

[@chrisfocus5833]

Rakim played the saxophone

[@S1MPLECAVEMAN]

R = Cream of the crop 👑🐐

[@BrianMacsMusicArchives]

One song from Rakim has enough words to be a short story, Master of the 🖊 🐐

[@tonyclark8132]

This is one of my favorite songs by Rakim. He says one of the most iconic bars in hip hop. The 7 MC Theory

[@markstevens315]

Microphone Fein...thts tht issshhh...by Eric B and Rakim...

[@andrewdawes3070]

Move the crowd, Rakim

[@xomack9344]

Rakim is one of the goats, my favorite one. Hip Hop started in the 70’s

[@_NoHandle_]

"Microphone Fiend" and "Eric B Is President" are my favorite Eric B & Rakim songs. I'll have to check to see if you've reacted to those two.

[@myround0]

You will love “I know you got soul” and “Eric B. is President.”

[@myround0]

If you want lyrics “You got soul”

[@franknitty43]

You're officially The Bag Man

[@teslahdread7529]

Billy 🐐

[@MarcR3312]

Know The Ledge

[@gibranmcdonald9853]

In the Ghetto is 🔥🔥🔥

[@jasonnelson6984]

Next one, eric b and rakim let the rhythm hit em.

[@el-shamshabarsaahir7282]

Lyrics Of Fury, No Competition, I Ain't No Joke, As The Rhyme Goes On, The Ghetto, Mahogany, Know The Ledge, (The Mystery) Who Is God, Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em, Musical Massacre, Casualties Of War, New York (Ya Out There), When I Be On The Mic, Waiting For The World To End

[@shakeluga3006]

He established his GOAT status in his first 6 months...listen too "the Ghetto" 🔥🔥🔥"Juice" the song that set Pac off😂😂

[@myround0]

“Eric B. Is president”

[@malskyboss5197]

Strong Island stand up!🔥

[@james1and1]

Shalam(Peace) Ra said" I can swing off anything even the string of a harp" Wait what... rappers don't have bars like that and that's the reason why he's the GOAT keep the Rakim coming Shalam(Peace).

[@noaldowney2403]

Marley Marl made this beat

[@myround0]

Drop rhymes like a scientist.

[@xomack9344]

This year marks the 51st anniversary of HIP HOP

[@bklynrich3304]

Master Ace

[@Charles-wd6iy]

You are listening to an edited version young man he actually did curse, He even talks about it in an interview.

[@ceades75]

Children's Story - Slick Rick

[@raski44]

Rakim the Ghetto is my personal favorite

[@CoHeirMultimedia]

This track made me take Hip Hop seriously in 1987! If you want even more bars by *The GOD* Rakim, check out his track "When I Be On The Mic" produced by DJ Premier!

[@myround0]

Yup

[@BRITSHNVASION]

RAKIM IS ON MY HIP HOP MOUNT RUSHMORE!

[@ericdennis3899]

Produced By The Legendary Marley Marl Dex He Produced M.C.Shan,Biz MarkieRoxanne Shante ,Kool G.Rap,Big Daddy Kane,Craig G,Master Ace & Tragedy The Intelligent Hoodlum They're All Part Of The Infamous Juice Crew

[@b2thej]

You gotta do Let The Rhythm Hit Em

[@vincentwilliams71]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@BombsBeats]

🔥Dope 1 Bro .Check out the My Melody (original 12" Version ) This the version You had to do The Wop !

[@toniteaCAFE]

THIS MUST BE THE REMIX

[@shannonk.moorer9158]

You need the remix with the bassline throughout the song. Gotta do You Know I Got Soul.

[@tengofey]

Rakim estimated in an interview with crooked I that he produced 80% of his catalogue. Eric b doing beats was to continue the story and look of a group. Also, it’s pretty well documented that Eric knew a lot of the real street dudes. Look at the back of paid in full album. Some of the people in that photo may be some of the same that you said you researched in ny streets. He was also very close to Tupac.

[@wheelerwon]

Marley Marl produced it. Eric B did the breaks. Marley was one of the 1st legendary hip hop producers

[@alvinhenry2570]

Marley Marl produced the first album

[@curtisowens3736]

I take 7 mc’s in a line.

[@myround0]

As it relates to “I know you go soul” you might need thirty minutes to do that song. The lyrics link.

[@maine1898]

Jay-Z used this same flow on the Original Gangster Album (Blue Magic)

[@PezoBandy]

The god Mc and you gotta peep it he don’t curse

[@Marvin-ut4xs]

Any mc that disagree with me wave ya arm😢. Still my fav Eb&r song

[@tommybonds]

Please React to Eric B. & Rakim - Know the ledge. Tough!

[@alvinhenry2570]

You need to check out The Symphony by Marley Marl

[@PRONESKI-TV]

Bro, you got to do Eric B and Rakim-Mahogany.

[@joshuamcelwee5311]

Please react to as the rhyme goes on by Eric b and rakim please !!!!

[@mobettaone7795]

Ground Breaking...

[@12footstroke15]

React to Tom Macdonald …”Don’t look down” please….bars on bars on bars

[@ceades75]

Marley Marl

[@stiemestyles6091]

React to no competition!

[@funkrabbit6599]

That beat, as several on the first album, was by the great Marley Marl. Eric B. didn't really do much sonically on the albums except the scratches.

[@krazyk9466]

Rakim is the GOAT. G Rap is a close 2nd.

[@kennethsmith3914]

I hear u on the "here for the bars" but if I may make a suggestion.... since u run it back anyway, y not have both in the chamber and do both? There's no video for this but IJS... Like your content tho. Keep pushin...

[@ferouseharris4740]

Slick rick Children's story Young world Mona lisa The moment I feared Lick the Ɓalls The rulers back Treat her like a pros...

[@wymanbanks5050]

The original single did have some cussing in it. This version you can hear the bars much better. I like the explicit version better.

[@pzl120]

I believe that 7 emcees line goes deeper than it appears because the number 777 represents God.

[@curtisowens3736]

Yo

[@larryvaughnii4570]

Stick with the lyrics=Bars

[@xomack9344]

Check BEATS TO THE RHYTHM..RUN DMC

[@Armil1]

Here's a nice video link of Clark Kent (RIP) describing the day BIG and Jay Z met to collab on Brooklyns Finest kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKS1haxtitKfeKcsi=3Jdu1XECEDCel7kJ

[@RasPsalm]

I personally never call him goat , he is just The R, God MC. Same with Big Daddy Kane, same with Krs One....thats the original Trinity godhead of hiphop

[@ceades75]

You completely leaving G Rap out

[@Beatstockpile127]

The Class of '87

[@RasPsalm]

@ceades75 Lyrically, he is right there with them. But i dont care how lyrical you are, you can't be considered a part of the Trinity if your music don't connect with people, if you can't make songs and albums that make people wanna go out and spend their money on you, what's the point

[@RasPsalm]

@Beatstockpile127 kings of the golden age

[@ceades75]

​@@RasPsalm explain how he wasn't connecting with people in the streets? You're talking about plenty of marketing vs not enough because that was the case with Polo and G Rap because going by your logic LL should be No. 1

[@freshair9832]

Fun fact: bro didn’t cuss, and never had traditional a hook. DAMN NEAR NEVER

[@titusnixon]

You young cats don’t understand, a person that has to cuss is a person with a lack of vocabulary and cussing just show how ignorant they are. A true poet is a word smith and most rappers are not word smith so with their lack of vocabulary and intellect they have to cuss cause they lack education and use the language of ignorance

[@ksigdiehr2486]

Sucker mcs run dmc!!!!!!

[@larryvaughnii4570]

Know the Ledge