THE WORDPLAY IS CRAZY!! FIRST TIME HEARING ERIC B. & RAKIM - FOLLOW THE LEADER | REACTION

[@mostmost1]

We still deciphering and admiring Rakim lyrics 30 plus years later.

[@unrhu]

Seeing the younger generation going back to the best of hip hop gives me hope for the future of hip hop!

[@situationsixtynine8743]

Rakim never used profanity or curse words, one of the few rap artists that had no need for that to make a point 😎

[@mralfonzohoward5175]

This is hip hop at its best RAKIM is one of the main reasons why the 90s were so good Because biggie Nas Jay-Z 2pac and everyone else had to live up to this and improve On it don't water it down no mumbling no ring tone crap Music with no gimmicks

[@bnotsonicebb6116]

No one improved on his level of wordplay, not even close😏

[@jordangondwe394]

BIG L kills Jay z and biggie and Nas

[@jbbj9720]

Rakim came out in the 80's like most of the true kings

[@stevebundren1682]

As a fan of much older hip hop. EPMD, Rakim, Eazy E, Ice T, and Cube, DJQuick. And the greats KRS ONE, JUST ICE , LL MOE DER, HEAVY DEE.. What happened,? It used to mean something.

[@stevebundren1682]

You're a child

[@VisuaTek1]

Lyrics of Fury is great. Rakim is the real deal.

[@gary2kr1]

Rakim said "RAP is Rhythm And Poetry" see what he did there? Something just as simple as that makes him the G.O.A.T. Rakim is eternal

[@disom8957]

Proud to say The God Emcee was my classmate.

[@anthonymcclain4576]

Don't Sweat the Technique Let the Rhythm Hit Em Microphone Fiend Mahogany 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Zytiron]

Can't forget "Paid In Full"

[@izzy3166]

And Juice!

[@wobblertv8083]

Lyrics of fury 👍

[@stanDbyme1963]

Lot of people sleeping on Mahogany

[@justice77justice]

Casualties of War Run for Cover Setem Straight

[@thasski8802]

Rakim the 🐐 .. that " he couldn't follow the leader long enuff so i drug him" was a EPMD diss

[@John-ik5vw]

Reference to a line in EPMD's "You Got's to Chill" I think or "You're a Customer". Precipitated by EPMD lines "Dig em smacks..." / "Smack me and I'll smack you back", which Rakim saw as a shot to his line in I Ain't No Joke "You could get a smack for this"... There's also the line that apparently was aimed at Kane with "Word to Daddy". There were lines in Kane's classic "Set It Off" and "Ain't No Half Steppin" and "Raw" that Rakim saw as directed at him originally but both spoke and decided it was a misunderstanding; and the songs were reworked and released without any direct references toward each other, but we still got to get a hint of what the battle would have been like between arguably the two greatest lyricists ever at their peak. These shots were not just personal ego by the way, but what these young men, teens and early 20s thought about how men should be and what hip hop should be in substance and content as well as style. The thinking and influences and conditions were far different than today, and the folks creating were still all in the birthplace, NYC (in struggling neighborhoods of largely Caribbean immigrants with a lot of militant / revolutionary ideas circulating for the past few decades- and with that none of the smiling and shuffling shit associated with POC in entertainment) and its surrounding areas of the city with similar demographics.

[@andrewallace2137]

They held rakims debut album back 1 year because they didnt think the hip hop genre was ready for him. ❤

[@sydboski]

You've been enlightened by the God Emcee!!!

[@djboogieboy]

The greatest of all time and one of the illest joints of all time period!!!!!!!

[@mattdixon6396]

I remember when this came out, I still have it on Vinyl. These guys Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Ice T etc… all came out at around the same time. Talk about being spoiled for choices.

[@prankster1590]

Yeah. It was very difficult. No KZbin and a CD was very expensive. 10 groups = 10 CDs = about 250 dollar.

[@frederickczajka573]

I love this song, it brings back great memories and the struggles that kids today will never know. Sitting in front of the tape player, pencil and paper trying to write down the lyrics to a song, what did he say? Rewind, again and again to get it.

[@WardenSpectreCommander]

I was in HS when this came out. Glad I grew up in that Era of hiphop😅

[@RobertSmith-js2kz]

Oh man I couldn't agree more. You could hardly keep up with the stuff coming out. It was NON-STOP. It seemed like it would never end (while you were in it).

[@wobblertv8083]

The golden age no doubt 👍

[@entertainingsportshighligh7525]

RAKIM, BIG DADDY KANE, KOOL G RAP & KRS ONE were the game changers in the late 80's, after the early 80s KURTIS BLOW, FURIOUS 5, WHODINI, FAT BOYS, TREACHOUS 3 , FAT BOYS and RUN DMC era .

[@terrancewilliams8612]

The Greatest to Bless The Mic Go ask them 7 mc's

[@corneliusdedrick4718]

YOU ALREADY KNOW 💯💯💯

[@AudiophileTubes]

MASTERCLASS! GOAT! Those lyrics and flow are truly sick! Urban poetry!

[@chozenbeatz]

Patrick Adams producer for this beat at power play studios LIC NY I was there for all those sessions that song he sampled star trek and a bunch of shit I was 14 and its the reason I produce today RIP uncle Pat miss you your a genius this is the proof he made these beats at 40 lol

[@desertdetroiter428]

Awwww man…I didn’t know Patrick Adams had passed!! That’s my guy since I was 12-13 years old when was a crate boy in the 70’s. My mans used to give me all the promotional disco vinyl. Musique II and Keep On Jumpin’ are still my favorite two albums from the period!

[@chozenbeatz]

thank you for recognizing that he was wayyy ahead of his time

[@stevebundren1682]

I saw this concert in 1989. Holiday Jam St Louis. To this thr greatest song and rapper ever.

[@1spTV]

so glad you re discovering this gem. i discovered rakim in 1990 and it changed my life...Every single time i hear this track i just bug out like you did. peace out beo. keep up the good work

[@AngelArtists]

And also, before Eric B & Rakim & Public Enemy, Del La Soul, Soul 2Soul, Snap etc back in the hip hop explosion towards the end of the 80s , hip hop was all like nursery rhymes & this stuff was GROUNDBREAKING! I am so hyped that I was around in those days and the 90s when music was COMPLETELY original & experimental. We were lucky. I still think there is good music out today, but it's all cut n paste & it all sounds the same. But really really pleased that the younger generation are finding these guys and the music we used to listen to back in the day & digging it. Good music will always remain good music from generation to generation.

[@jshizzle6866]

Eric B. was the D.J. and Rakim is the God M.C. Every time I hear this beat start up it takes me back to when me and my first got the cassette tape. We were left speechless, and we wore it out that first day listening to it over and over.

[@AngelArtists]

You imagine what it was like when we first heard it when it came out in 1988!!!!

[@hoseaburnette6438]

The greatest to ever do it. His lyrics were so dope...2nd to none! My all time favorite is As The Rhyme Goes On. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Kasu-AL]

Hurry hurry step right up and keep following the leader

[@DJFreeway-DJExit-DJClaritin]

That small balls of clay and following the star line are damn good

[@raynay1500]

I want to see some young bloods skate to this. The music is pure genius. Thank for bring me back again.

[@grahamstewart-u5v]

Check out tiargo Lemos 808 has another old classic check it out

[@cesarbaca5297]

This whole album changed my life in 88. 👊🏽🤘🏽

[@thecodetalker5742]

Instant Like 👍...The God M.C

[@montaukwhaler673]

Yes indeed! Rhymes and that BASS is heavy, Homes!

[@rodneybrown2496]

He's the God MC!!!!!

[@Cashmere.Kufi_88]

Follow The Leader flashbacks to 1988 my A-alike use to bump this cassette in his Buick 1980 something

[@victorward759]

Eric B is the Dj and beat maker and Rakim is the lyricist/ rapper

[@internationalhiphopscreenw7866]

This is a perfect hip hop joint.

[@chadblackburn6137]

My brother Sceez has leveled up...and if u don't know now u know!!! Give us more..looking forward to "I ain't no joke"....1

[@LibertySpam]

Rakim is still doing it and is probably the 🐐

[@coolb8545]

Dude I love you mane this the same reactiom real hip hoppers had back when it came out..hysteria and nostalgia.shyt was crazy mane💪🏿✊🏿

[@RobertSmith-js2kz]

By far their best song. Everything jumped into hyperdrive on this album. It was like a time warp into the future. "Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em" (Title track - next album) is about as close as they ever got to the level of this song. It's in a dimension all it's own.

[@entertainingsportshighligh7525]

The MUSIC VIDEO was also FIRE, on some old school looking MAFIA shit. Lol

[@majikmanheru3539]

Lma😅😅😅😅 Heavens Yes #GODMC Ain't No Joke!! Great presentation

[@melvonjohnson5711]

Wassup youngin- Rakim was actually dissing the hip-hop rap group EMPD in this song because they came at him when he made the song" I aint no Joke." Listen to the song "You got to chill" by EMPD..

[@BadgerBJJ]

In this song Eric B is the man. The beat is theme music. This should play whenever I walk into a room

[@algram8541]

Tha G O D. None before none after😤

[@sylvesterwilliams7669]

The first group to sign for a MILL !

[@purpleaquarius7948]

He did not talk about drugs or guns his one of the goats.

[@billybucks8234]

Legends

[@wobblertv8083]

That track is like hearing the voice of God!This is the 35 years old ....timeless tune .

[@youngtrainingdaywestphilly203]

My crew and I, banded by the speaker, Standing with heaters, Turned the opposition into retreaters, Seekers into greeters, Ye of little faith, into true believers, Hey, "Fever" comes with "summer madness," Whackness udder madness, I'm the baddest, plus the Grandest, Keep y'all top 5, I'm on the grand list. Haters can't stand this, So, I tell'em to stand down, While they stand around, I'm the winner, Hands down, So clap ya hands now! I do more than move the crowd, I make'em scream loud!

[@justice77justice]

Let the Rhythm Hitem Im the Arsenal i gotta Artillery Lyrics of Amo

[@RubenGarcia-rs6vk]

Do let the rythm hitem my fav

[@dtruth5769]

Beast Trac. U should do a reaction vid to LL cool Mudergram

[@izzy3166]

Listen to Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em, by Eric B & Rakim. 👍🏼

[@Alfaqwad]

Tha God Emcee!

[@thomastaylor9579]

Eric B, is the Dj,

[@rich1223]

Rakim! Wyandanch Long Island NY!

[@disom8957]

Warrior4Life 11798

[@victorward759]

You need to react to Rakims : Musical Massacre and also Kick A Long

[@cheftekniqakabuletteborn8127]

you gota listen to rakim the master the whole Albam its so fire

[@terrancewilliams8612]

I just seen The God In New Orleans Easter Sunday

[@unclewalhingford2538]

Back in these day we didn't exclaim, "Bars", because that statement would be too redundant. The whole song is...BARS!

[@Sherardrclark]

It made me proud that the younger brother finally got exposed to Rakim the G.O.A.T. please check out Lyrics Of Fury also 👍🏽👍🏽

[@battleborn4132]

Rap god

[@mikaelcarlson555]

The most underrated rap group of all time!

[@RobertSmith-js2kz]

By who exactly? 🤣

[@mikaelcarlson555]

@@RobertSmith-js2kz Well, anyone under 40, and way too many people over 40.

[@RobertSmith-js2kz]

@@mikaelcarlson555 The under 40s don't know any better, over 40s that actually know hip-hop ... practically zero. The rest? Irrelevant.

[@mikaelcarlson555]

@@RobertSmith-js2kz yeah I don't think it is irrelevant. In rock and roll, even if people don't know shit they know that the Beatles or Led Zeppelin are seminal in the development of the genre. I would like to see Rakim be recognized similarly.

[@RobertSmith-js2kz]

@@mikaelcarlson555 You have a point there. I think your typical hip-hop consumer aren't much into studying history. Which is everything.

[@lisae9958]

You is WOKE now🤗🤗🤗

[@kdubbster]

I know for certain reasons you don't wanna play the video....but mannnn the video was Legendary

[@Cassim-y5n]

The vid did the rap no justice... he's coming from a whole different vision...a N.O.I./ FIVE PERCENT(5%). If you know, you know. PEACE ✌️.

[@moebetta72]

Makes my SPIRIT SMILE when the younger Generation overstands what REAL HIP-HOP MEANS.

[@79derik]

Hmm no curse words? Yep and still straight 🔥

[@shuntayshuntay]

🎯

[@melvinmcclain8127]

LISTEN TO MAHOGANY BY RAKIM THE INTRO BEAT IS INSANE.

[@St23Vincent]

If aliens came down and contacted me for whatever reason and asked me to define Rap/Hip-Hop…I’d play this song.

[@BrotherAkin]

The God went at Big Daddy Kane & EPMD on this one.

[@pas8414]

Rakim was 18 when he wrote this

[@cheftekniqakabuletteborn8127]

rakim is my #1 mc ever

[@palexander5090]

If you'll notice, DOC borrowed 'the Formula', turning it into an entire song on 'No one can do it better'.

[@thomastaylor9579]

90's rap tha ALKAHOLICKS " Dammmmm", Karupt, " calling out names,

[@anthonywilliams9415]

📠. Alkaholiks is my favorite hip hop group

[@thomastaylor9579]

@@anthonywilliams9415 " it's the wicked pain inficta with the Micky's deuce deuce ...

[@reggiemoore6618]

Eric b was just the dj. Rahim wrote and produced all the music on the 1st and 2nd albums. There was some additional assistance but not from Eric B. Read Rakims book Sweat the technique...

[@verbone]

...as the earth gets further and further away, planets are small as balls of clay... That one messed me up when this came out. The imagery of traveling into space and watching earth and the solar system plants get smaller as you travel. Also, all the 5% references he seamlessly wove in.

[@MentuSun]

they cut it short

[@patriciab825]

💥💥💥

[@jerryjordan2482]

Eric B the D.J !

[@soothingwhitenoise796]

🔥🔥

[@cjay5643]

Do Rakim - The Punisher

[@michaelgrimes8326]

Long Island

[@jasonnelson6984]

Do that Eric b and rakim musical massacre. 👍👍👍👍👍👍.

[@gracemichelli.2am124]

🔥🔥🔥❤️🏆

[@georgewinbush4309]

Not one cuss word Rakim one of the realist

[@moebetta72]

Rakim is HIM!

[@FullFathomV]

It shouldn't have faded out like that>

[@sna2ke]

God Mc Rakim

[@cjay5643]

There has been an uptick on rakim reaction videos since the grammys and the clowns who put jay z as the best of all time....

[@JONJON1828]

Notice rakim didn’t curse or said n@$$# not once still hard as hell !!!!!

[@terrancewilliams8612]

Go Listen to No Omega

[@maxtier644]

Not until ya listen to Rakim on a Rocky Mountain top have you heard hip hop….Saul Williams

[@TimpossibleOne]

This is who Eminem patterns himself after but he had the nerve to not name Rakim as one of his top 5. SMH

[@DarcMarc1066]

MC Search 🐐 if you know then you kno

[@cyanide69]

So refreshing to experience your genuine reaction to this because it reminded me of the first time I heard this after release. I'm 53 years old - imagine the 18 year old version of myself back in 1988 fiending for the next slice of golden age hip hop, even after PE's "It Takes a Nation...." and BDP's "By Any Means Necessary" 1 or 2 months earlier - mind blown multiple times over! 🤯

[@teesogrimey6457]

That was a diss to BDK u kno he made warm it up

[@itsakittyting]

Never heard this one, guess it wasn't a hit over here & that's what I like about watching your channel>>getting exposed to all kinds of music new and old☺

[@montaukwhaler673]

Where are you from and how old are you? I'm asking because this was a HIT not just in the US or on the East Coast of the US

[@itsakittyting]

@@montaukwhaler673 The Netherlands, Europe - 1973☺

[@lawrencemartin418]

@irisbenjaminsen Me 2 "73 will b 50 in May was a teen inda late 80s but born here Bronx NYC this music made by the real n true children of Israel 🇮🇱 ❤️ was never promoted on ur side bck in those days not like commercial rap 2day!!! Shout out 2 da Netherlands 🇳🇱 🙌 👏 👌 💪Note: Read the lyrics bck in those days they were called God Body or( 5 percenters) no eating pork etc offshoot of Islam but Rakim know the scriptures Torah (bible) knows who we "R" Israelites (Real Jews) Rakim iz from Brooklyn NYC deep ghettos of the big 🍎 He's very educated in Knowledge Wisdom n Understanding

[@RobertSmith-js2kz]

It wasn't really a "hit" anywhere. It was big if you were into rap at the time but all of this stuff was pretty much "underground" It's not like this is something that got radio play.

[@greatscott1175]

​@@RobertSmith-js2kzWhere I'm from it got real limited airplay. But when it hit it hit. And if you knew YOU KNEW!

[@primeminister66]

This is like Calculus…