Rakim freestyle

[sandwhichesaremuntin]

You know when the God mc is spitting Jesus is gonna be in the background :)

[MrSockoOck]

Dude in the wife beater has to be his brother

[kazimir2005]

dee barnes in the back ground...................

[mson185]

Is that rakim's brother on his left?

[nagoo87]

nothing's equivalent...amen 2 that; 2pac obama letter. 

[stachistoscope]

Rakim Alllah

[Betoven81]

People...everybody meet Jay-Z's, Nas', 2pac's, and Biggie's father

[sedlaaay]

It's a shame to know that this man is still alive, but people fail to remember to bring his name up in hip-hop convos. When he dies, that's when all of a sudden people will realize what they had..smh

[72seeker72]

That is a talent few people have. RAKIM 4 EVA

[MrBawblawblaw]

The title explains it perfectly.

[BeenaBee]

haha that nigga in the blue beatboxing behind Rakim is reppin Ra to the fullest in this freestyle..

[honeegrrl]

15 people will never be "paid in full."

[Floriz013]

Haha Rakim wears everything from Mercedes or what? Greatest MC in my eyes.

[SuperDjiz]

Ive never seen a big ass flower like rakim! Hes the god

[miamivice32]

rakim still got it going a true legend

[alphamale227]

Damn so rappers tend to be so sloppy when they freestyle, where they just spit lyrics unconcerned with the beat and rhythm, but Rakim is one of the only MC's who can do it so clean.

[danielvillarreal]

How the fuck can anybody dislike this.. its Hip Hop at its purest!!!

[bankenickel]

damn i miss this....real HIP HOP

[JGrizzle57]

Nigga beatboxing behind him like we can actually hear that shit LMAO

[BillKiernan]

hey, retards behind Rakim, SHUT THE FUCK UP you're off beat and fucking up his amazing shit.

[Smokeherbs718215]

the godfather of hip hop baby.

[coldaziceee]

The brothers it, and nothings equivalent!!

[blkron3]

not exactly a freestyle,i heard that verse from one of his songs off let the rhthym hit em album

[MrCommenterguy]

@blkron3 /watch?v=B5egwRoiFe4

Watch the video, BDK explaining what a freestyle is. Not necessarily off the dome.

[goodguyj]

ma top 5 mcs

1.) Nas

2.) Rakim

3.) Big Daddy kane

4.) Biggie

5.) Raekwon

[XxMcRudixX]

@goodguyj where are redman, 2pac, big l and jay z?

[OshawaStateOfMind]

@goodguyj drop biggie and raekwon and throw in GZA and Big L and its all good.

[BeenaBee]

that girl to the right of Rakim is a dime

[Kapitul]

'90 or '91

[TheOfficialSvengali]

What year is this!?

[SourceOf1dament]

Can almost the the super strings.... 

[Mkisho]

Killed it.

[ppg141]

THUMBS UP IF RAKIM KILLED IT

[Tozereep]

STREET!!!!!!!!! kiff

[MrJazzHOP]

Incomparable, precise, most fluid brother to bless a mic. Many may follow, but the leader leads.

[diamante1184]

Flow so dope got shorty fiendin' lol 0:43

[fairyfellermaster]

IMO, with all due respect to biggie & 2pac & all the other MCs out there, when Rakim came out he was the difference between old & new school. His voice was ominous, his rhymes were lessons & his delivery was like bullets from an Uzi. He was to hip hop what jimi Hendrix was to rock, once you saw him there was no turning back. Without question THE greatest MC of all time

[88ritchie]

@fairyfellermaster

ya damn right!

[funkateer17]

@fairyfellermaster Greater than Chuck-D? Nah.

[RAtheEmperor]

@funkateer17 yes, greater then chuck-D...the god of hiphop...no question about it...

[noiserrr]

@fairyfellermaster preach on. could never have said better myself.

[rdotgreenz]

Even the crowd can't follow this MAD flow

[JonasPolsky]

Where's our time machines already? I need to get back to this.

[mrcjrowe]

Good video... Rakim is a legend! Then came BIGGIE SMALLS

[MrJazzHOP]

@honeegrrl: That's anyone's guess - but as far as real Hip-Hop heads are concerned, Rakim Is the most wicked and most on-point brother to bless a mic. Much of these "awards" are all name-for-name-sake industry-related bullshit. Rakim still rips shows like it was 1986 - in fact, he's surgically sharp and certifiably dope - I've seen cats only 18 yrs old and younger hold their jaws, mesmerized at what they were seeing and hearing. Rakim isn't called God MC for nothing!!

[honeegrrl]

Unless I missed it but can anyone please tell me why he was NOT included in this years BET hip hop awards cyphers?

[canibusnj]

Rakim, THE GREATEST, PERIOD!!!!!!!!! :)

[1killah3]

the days when we had real mc's, not the digital bullshit today...my 2 cents, 90% of todays rap is fuckin caca..suckas need to get back to the real roots of rap...

just blaze!!

[TEACHYOUTEEWHY]

I'm watching this video in 2012.

[JRakels]

I laughed the shit out a myself when i heard: Blow ur entire empire on fire now gimme back the mic without a wire! AMAZING FREESTYLE MAN! Rakim is fucking awesome!

[SuperAikido25]

This dude was so far ahead of his time

[Dmaccabees]

my top 5

[callumbrowns]

HES SICK *

[SexyBrown213]

Iowa Hawkeyes hat SWAGGG

[BreezyDaSwagMan]

Shit, and I thought Common was nice. Wow.

[bobinz96]

He threw down.

[coldaziceee]

The brothas it, and nothings equivalent.

[GoThaddy]

the 13 people who disliked this have asymetrical testicles

[gotbankacctfinally]

G.O.A.T.

disagree? fuck off...and fuck swag. swag is trying, RAKIM WAS BORN THIS NICE.

idiot white people...

[imtheFreshest]

@gotbankacctfinally

that last three words just ruined your comment... 2011 and you still classify by skincolours. Daaaaaamn, son.

[gotbankacctfinally]

@imtheFreshest my bad. i def didn't expound what i meant & was wasted. 'swag' makes me fkin sick. most of 'hip hop' today embodies it. hip-hop's a beauty pageant now. way back i don't remember legend mc's eatin cuz of white ppl. now, suburb white kids/hipsters; they put food on these beauty queens plates.

i remember G Rap wore scuffed Tims...by choice. shit, Das EFX BRAGGED a/b bein gutter. rakim's wearin the same bodega beanie now he did in '86

talent is now veiled by swag. bring back the MC

[gotbankacctfinally]

@imtheFreshest & thx for callin me out. i hate bringin race into shit. i'm not usually that dude

i've had disdain w/ the superficiality of white people my whole life. it ain't consuming me by any means, but i've noticed it's more prominent with them than my minority fam. i gotta "little" authority on the subject..i'm a whiteboy from the midwest 'burbs.

i was the polar opposite of OG mc's. still am. they opened my mind in a way nothing else could. i miss this era, but it'll always live. peace

[sirKalashni]

Swagg swagg!!!

[sirKalashni]

Mercedes Benz!

[FlashyV2]

He can do this without a Blackberry to see his lyrics.

Real Hip Hop.

[BxRichTheMC]

@FlashyV2 Unlike drake sof ahhh..

[Graenelolz]

@FlashyV2 This is real hip hop for you? Rapping without a blackberry? Haha...

[FlashyV2]

@Graenelolz Anything that takes effort and passion is real hip hop to me. MC' that put emotion and their talent to work. Guys like NaS, Kendrick Lamar, Big L , Big K.R.I.T, Rakim, Jedi Mind Tricks , Common, Atmosphere and many more.

[TheF2TheInnian]

rakim is the best mc to bless this world,

[TERAONE]

not 1 simple word in that freestyle. ridiculous

[TERAONE]

13 people are clueless

[paintballbeast96]

shut the fuck up niggas i wanna hear rakim.

[monstaslaya]

If I met Rakim my life would be so much closer to complete

[SansPressionTV]

CLASSIC

[BeenaBee]

the broad next to rakim is a 10/10 DIME....

[beeva275]

hahahaha the good days of hiphop

[kmegrou59]

OMG

[femiboy34]

"I don't go on tour, I go to war."

ILL SHIT!

[kbw1970]

This explains why no rappers old school or new, never publicly dissed Rakim cause they know he's the greatest to ever hit the studio or at least I never knew about it. They know he would fire back and make them sick to the stomach!

[cardiffman2008]

hip hop was better with rope chains and dice games kids on the block with a writing pad and pipe dreams the good old days in wich i grew up where a boom box and dime bag was always enough, nowadays i look at the sweet bitch i called rap and realize shes getting old man shes starting to sag her memorys fading and shes more than played out i wonder what woulda happened if lil wayne aint came out needless to say its a crying shame that nowadays real hip hop is a dying game.......

[kingkevboi67]

@cardiffman2008 thats really good man true words respect

[Regzus]

Flowest motherfucker ever.

[Blitz3677]

How old are these rhymes ? 20 yrs ? Still no rapper today can touch RAKIM born to do this

[cmone5]

wish i had his chain worth alot lol

[HybridD91]

So, how much were the background dancers paid?

[areyouazombie]

CLASSIC!! SCREW THESE SWAGG FAGG BOIS!!!!!!

[feetcreamer]

is this an actual free style? soooo smooth no hickups anything. not a single pause:O

[alphamale227]

@feetcreamer Well do you know what freestyle is?

[dawb86]

@feetcreamer Freestyle to a lot of people simply means a bunch of bars you might've wrote that aren't about any particular subject, which is what this probably was. To me, that's kicking a rhyme. I only consider it freestyling if it's completely off the top of someone's head, which is starting to become an extremely rare ability by most mainstream rappers and even a lot of the underground MCs. Yet another reason why they continue to say "hip hop is dead."

[earlmccormick88]

@dawb86 Exactly! Some people change the meaning to protect their beloved rappers.

[TheMrSizzel]

shut the fuck up back there!

[jaygordon94]

yo, his flow is impeccable.

[djfakt]

Now it's a bunch of KIDS with no style whatsoever...

[shanefcknhodge]

Yo is that his brother to the right? Haha got a eddy and charlie murphy thing going on.

[TheHAPPYLOU]

yes, lil wayne IS a rapper, but this...this is an M.C.

[TheHAPPYLOU]

nigga das the marfuckin R

[ToneyDaRapper1995]

every song rakim spit u have to stop porn just to listen to it

[diamond99100]

@ToneyDaRapper1995 hahaha thas some funny shidd but tru

[Sarto615]

187 at all fake ass rappers in tight jeans!

[LauderdaleFat]

nothing still aint equivilant

[burx18]

gotta love it

[gorgeousbronze]

I would have had all of his babies. Looooved him so much. Now that's talent.

[ausiehiphop]

so sickk

[frazeblood]

viscious



[MrJazzHOP]

Well, there it is! The smoothest, coolest brother to bless a mic. The heavyweight champion of Hip-Hop, off the ropes DOPE!

[kaiser85collins]

what year was this?

[UniverSouLove]

Like he said, "Nothin's equivalent." Rakim is the original microphone fiend.

[troubleincorporated]

Man, I miss this guy.

[jaytei]

Follow the leader :D Hip Hop xx

[zadkiel04]

My Mentor murdering the craft.

[kanakitan]

nice mercedes ring

[fellarockerjosh]

its good to see tht the concensuss is the same throughout fuck these new cats back in the day is where it went down and its still as strong today henry rollins bless hip hop

[MrJazzHOP]

Any doper, we'd O.D for real. Rakim the deepest, most erudite MC to bless the mic.

[27gsmith]

nothings equivilent

[mjdghost]

RAKIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[InsaneDrGreenthumb]

Rakim Allah best rapper ever..

[lumhostile]

This is some hard shit!

[1bigjess]

man... I just wish I could go back to the 90's, I had so much inspiration then. It almost reminds me of wrestling in a way

[ACtheMC27]

man. i hate listening to this new school shit, i wish i grew up during this time back when people just got together on the streets to spit some freestyles. now i gotta watch these new pretty boy pussys with skinny jeans talk about swagg cars and bitches all day -___-

fuck the radio and MTV, the underground has the best hip-hop remember that.

[11MASCUCH11]

fuck soulja boy, this is REAL swag

[MrBDotKilla]

@11MASCUCH11 thank you this is REAL swag

[ILoveFolkMusic]

@11MASCUCH11 dont ever put "soulja boy" and " swag" in the same sentence

[SuperMoss15]

@11MASCUCH11 What the Hell is Soulja Boy?

[Regzus]

@11MASCUCH11

WHo mentioned soulja fag?

[ActionRoad]

@11MASCUCH11 fuck swag, this is HIP-HOP

[earlmccormick88]

@Z1986 Never in A Milli years will Lil Wayne ever be this great!

[TheRealBajc]

The guy beatboxn in da back is awsome :D love the freestyle

[Solar703]

@TheDennis Lil Wayne will never b able 2 create like Ra, he's from da south, dere eduational level is far behind, I lived dere 4 sum yrs, Ra was way b 4 his time, and had knowledge of self, sumthin' da south dont get, still on dat Jim Crow level!!!! A!!!! It iz wut it iz!!!!!! Real talk!!!!!

[matyn1]

what song has he rapped tis in?

[MrJazzHOP]

Rakim is so sick, so slick, so damn unbelievably talented, it's crazy! Just bananas. Seriously, this brother has the flow, the metaphores, the deep brain-melting scriptures to turn any mc on their ass. God MC, NO COMPETITION!

[earlmccormick88]

@MrJazzHOP My thoughts exactly. Rakim is freaking AWESOME! I so love how youtube took me hear after hearing Mos Def go bananas in them freestyles. After hearing Lupe Fiasco smash a freestyle....after hearing Jay Electronica kill these beats....after hearing Talib Kweli freestyle.... after the hearing Jean Grae freestyle....I love real hiphop so much. I can listen to these cats forever.

[MichaelMatthews2]

loool at the guy in the background trying to beatbox

[FAR2FLYFAMILY]

if thesuckas inthe back stfu

[tinytanq8]

lyrics make me a menace, When its, In a sentence, then its finished,

more pure than raw, much more than above the law, I don't go on tour I go to war!

[PuFF18]

Oh, Lil Wayne is not a rapper, comparing to Rakim's flow

[TerronMackTV1]

damn I would never ask rakim to spit a freestyle let alone a cup of sugar.

[BestIntheWorld1313]

jayd4ever you're just mad because that white boy is best rapper in the game today bitchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­.

[TheSyrupMan]

@BestIntheWorld1313 it doesn't take much to be the best rapper in the game today

[ARakaLordBrilliant]

@Z1986 Right not am mc you know the difference I see true indeed! Wayne is to be mentioned in the circle of mc's. I have a little song about him called broken swords check it out ya heard! Peace!

[parsamoeini]

didnt know rakim had a benz sponsorship

[nieto1992]

Rakim has a crazy flow, crazy lyrics, most talented rapper

[YungMalThaKid]

totally bin round BDK 4 way long

[eldiablo9604]

0:32 sounded really good!

[kadmany]

So let me see Eminem vs Rakim !

[jayd4ever]

@kadmany rakim would beat that over exposed white boy

[Mavric7788]

@kadmany Rakim would destory Eminem in a rap battle

[fairyfellermaster]

@Mavric7788 Rakim would destroy every rapper that came before or since. LL cool j, RUN-DMC, kane, public enemy, 2pac, biggie, eminem. He'd destroy them all cos they all took something from him.

[nrcboxers]

LOOK AT THEM CHAINS *SLAP IN FACE*



[Orlando2Vegas]

Nothings Equivalent !!!

[TheBBoyCompany]

Lyrics Make Me A Menace!

[rapidelete]

The GOD EMCEE.

[TheDennisFrogman]

@Z1986 You never know some random might get mad if I can him a pop star, which is what I think he is.

[TheDennisFrogman]

This is why I say Wayne ain't the best rapper alive. Not just that, you'll never see anything like this again.

[poetsprophet73]

@TheDennisFrogman

i completely agree. The purity of hip hop has faded away and is only alive underground. I've recently released my tape "henomenal: No College Required" so take a minute to hear me out. No cursing, no degrading woman, just beautiful beats and nice lyrics with a flawless flow. Hope you enjoy the songs. Real Hip Hop is all about expressing one's self. peace n luv

Phenomenal

[notoriousb3nni]

@poetsprophet73 very true. BRING HIP HOP BACK AND PUT THAT HIP POP SHIT UNDERGROUND.