Eric B. & Rakim - As The Rhyme Goes On Lyrics

IM HERE. GODBODY., RAKIM ALLAH

I draw a crowd like a architect damn he's unstoppable .who can you compare him to

Open spot on the floor, squeeze in if its packed, it would be more room if EMCEES played the back! Kool Moe Dee who was almost 10 years in the game before Rakim said Emcees would gather around Russel Simmons to hear the next Eric B and Rakim songs. DAMN

Paid in Full is still $16.99...nuff said!!!

" nas, i am your father "

The only time I stopped is when somebody drop and then bring them to the front cuz my Rhymes the oxygen I'm the biggest Rakim fan ever one of the greatest line by the greatest of all time the greatest rapper in history no competition oh that's another dope ass song with prolific lyrics when it comes to rap this guy is God has down

I'm an S to the A - T - A - N - ist,
Not really I'm a Jehovah's witness,
I'll show up at your door just to ruin your day,
When you're trying to watch porn, I try and get you to pray

Right When Rakim Start To Rap At 00:18 sec You Can Directly Feel That This Man Is Indeed The GOD MC.

Top 5 Rappers

1. Pac and Rakim both #1 in my book
2. Ice Cube
3. Slicc Rick
4. Soulja Slim
5. Jay Z

My very 1st album , straight CLASSIC!

Maybe the most unmentioned track by Eric B And Rakim but probably one of the most illest...not many effin' with Ra

My sophmore junior year in highschool
Great time in Hip Hop

Timeless 😍😍😍😍😍

Todays rappers have no intellegence.

Dope. Still in 2019....That is all

For any of the younger generation who can’t comprehend what Rakim meant to Hip-Hop… he’s the Kendrick Lamar of the 80’s.

Best rapper of all times.

peace to Guru!!!!

Still knocking in 2019!!!!

The flip flop rappers better not never ever challenge Tha M.C. God of Hip Hop to a Rapp battle 😆😅😄😃😂 THEIR skinny jeans career is OVER .

Listen to his lyricism!!! Damn!!!!!

I'm the R to the A to the K-I-M
If I wasn't then why would I say I am?

The best hip hop/rap song ever in life made!! & the best lyrical Mc ever!!..Rakim #1 hamds down💯

One of the illest beats EVER 🔥🔥🔥

Yo could never catch this joint from beginning when I was tapin it on Mr Magic and Marly Marl show, get up go do some dumb shit come back it b on, press record and get half the song, was mad as shit!! Studied this like homework, can remember every line but not pre calculus

Salute. Peace to the God's

Hey guys,i used to play Nintendo "T&C Surf&Skate" to this rap in '87 when i was 15. It help me beat the game

RAKIM was COLD I draw a rhyme like a architect

Who else thought he was going to say "In the paper the news every day I am"

I first heard this in 1987 i had never heard the simoutanius flow it was its rare no one can top him he was at beggining

Fuk big daddy kane n the 18th letter no comparison 18th 4 eva greatest of all time hands down

That’s crazy. He never stopped. He basically just spit one long verse.

The sample of ocean sounds, suggesting infinity, the harp or whatever adding a sense of mystery. The bass adding a jazzy accent. Boom bap underneath. Rakim sick in the pocket. Using his voice like a goddamn instrument. Syncopating his flow. Slowing it down, speeding it up around the beat, the snares in a SINGLE take. No chorus. Just infinite lyrics. A multitude of flows, incredible visuals, metaphors and rhyme structures. Revolutionary as fuck. Still banging in 2019.

This song..... Damn this song, even without cuss words, is hard as FUCK!

You can not ride a beat any better than that!!!!!!!!!

And everything rhymed while telling a story..... hip hop at its finest!!

Fab 5 freddy made this track for Rakim....who would've guessed

One of 2Pac All time favorite

This ish sound so damn good. Rakim maybe one the Greatest Lyricist Ever.

Fire!!!!

“Look around, see how pack the party get/ I draw a crowd, like an architect”....aye he ate this mf !

Rakim said " the only time I'll stop is when somebody drops and then bring them to the front cause my rhymes the oxygen".. smdh.. this dude was unrivaled on the Mic.. #theGOAT

Mic-by-mic and Stage-by-stage

4 minutes and 2 sec. Of nothing but bars. No hook just bars; the best M.C alive Rakim Da God💯💯🔥🥇

2019 and beyond. Peace to the nation

The dopest mcs ever rakim, krs-One, kool g. Rap, big L., grand puba, L L cool j., mc shan, oc, intelligent hoodlum

Rakim sampled the beastie boys pump it up home boy

UNDERRATED! ALL DAY

that barry white sample got absolutely slaughtered here. dam son.

Rakim 'The L to the E to the GENDARY".

I loved it...i love it...i willever love it

Welcome to the art of mc'ing!

According to Patrick Adams, the engineer of this track, this was done in one take. Sheesh.

Who's still listening in 2019

He gave birth 2 Nas Eminem Jay-Z excetera excetera.. The list goes on and on!

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR THEN SEE FROM WHERE THIS GID GOT HIS STRENGTH. 30+ years the God preceded the unalike Eminem is a lesson in and of itself for those that know. Em could write a rhyme anywhere near this! The flow, the jewels the true representation of a culture and time long forgotten. Go listen to this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCHNnT7rms

Phat ropes

Still Listening 2019

Rakim is not playing around on this one......He says, "Ready to absorb the rhyme that I just poooured into the mic, so unite and this won't be so bored"....Your brain literally absorbs every word, and honestly it changes you....then he goes on to say...."You fall deeper into the style, it's hard to breathe.....The only time I stop is when somebody drop, and then bring them to the front cuz my Rhyme's the Oxygen"....You literally become hypnotized by his words as you fall deeper into the trance of the lyrical journey he's prepariing to take you on; but unknowingly, you've already been on that journey for several minutes, as the rhyme continues to get deeper and more complex. It pulls you in like the undertow and currents from the ocean, and there's nothing you can do about it except let go, enjoy the ride and be amazed at the lyrical word play while the metaphors are blowing your earthly mind away....Eminem or any other EmCee that I can think of has never been able to do that to this degree. That's why Rakim is a GOD EMCEE. many say that Big Daddy Kane is his equal, but I don't think so.....

BDK wouldn't stand a chance against the ra.

"The only time I stop is when somebody drop, and then bring them to the front cuz my rhyme's the Oxygen"...... That shit is so damn clever

2018. Pump it up homeboy

The most complete hip-hop song ever...!!!

Love the way the bass, drums, and Rakim's lyrics work together on this... Eric Barrier, unsung hero... this should've been on The Book of Life...

at the time everybody had that loud and Rakim and Eric B were both quiet calm type people.

in the interview that Rakim and Nas just did together not said this was one of his favorite songs by Rakim.
he said even Eminem use that verse "if I wasn't then why would I say I am" but he's also said that he liked every song on the paid in full album and the next album.

This is levels above your average emcee, rapper, whatever, etc✌

That's my NAAAMEEEEEEE

😥😥MAKE RAP GREAT AGAIN😥😥😥

Ra has The Best Flow of all Times.....

Real hip hop..

THANK YOU ALLAH FOR ERIC B. & RAKIM

Hard to believe he was only like 17

The illest Lyricist the Malcolm X of Hip Hop.! Facts

KRS-One would be the malcolm x of hip-hop.

Chuck D is Malcom X. But KRS is more of a Farrakhan 😂

Nothing has never came close to this album 💯✊🏾♠️

One of the illest flows, ever spit into a mic, and pushed out a speaker.

The greatest verse ever written. Pure poetry.

Absolutely love this track. A lot of people big up Rakim but there's a reason Eric B.'s name came first... the way the drums and bass work together is phenomenal...

NO CURSING

"When the crowd is moving I compete with the mix, the rougher the cuts the rougher the rhyme gets".... If that doesn't getcha nothing will.

The 40 ppl with the thumbs down need to be found and mentally examined. Maybe they can contribute to helping scientist find the cause of being RETARDED!

2018..PEACE to the God's. still competition is none..?!

I across my arms and i was waiting and just hating the rapper on the microphone was fronting just faking there was a break in which means i was aching to get upon the microphone and then start taking

No cussing, no n word, no nonsense, straightforward classic

your favorite rapper's favorite rapper

This is my favorite Rakim cut off all time. I know the Classics are Massive, but this joint is so overlooked and underrated, it's damn near criminal.

Just listen to the cadence, flow, narration, illustration, artistry and mastery of these lyrics. It's a masterclass in the art of Emceeing!

#The God

Omowàle Zaquir 100

This has always been my favorite.

The true GOAT

Rakim was always my favorite rapper ever. It's so sad what rap has turned into. It's hard to stomach today's hip-hop.

I heard my pops play in this I was like whoa!! lol Rakim is the truth boi

I draw the crowd...like an architect...mindblowing metaphor esp for 87

Your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.

To me these guys are Rap, are Hip-Hop, without them rap would be very different today. I grew up on the 80's-90's Rap/Hip-Hop and some of the best groups came out. Ill i need is a 10 disc CD changer with Eric B & Rakim, Rodney O & Joe Cooley, KRS1 & BDP, Chuck D & P.E., RunDMC, Beastie Boys, 3rd Base, the Hard Boys, N.W.A., The Fat Boys and im good.

That man said " my ryhmes the oxygen "

So Dope!

I'm gonna put it in a way that a kid could understand .........When you played Any of the R music Nobody I'm Mean NOBODY WAS SMILING! it got super HARD in the atmosphere! NOOO MC in those days change you're mood like the people's champ Rakim.Just to let you all know the ladies were digging it because it made the guys look even that much more masculine . PS guys knew not to come with this silly femininity body gestures that you see a lot of guys do today, plain and simple if you did ..... Your jaw got broke!!!!

The G.O.A.T!!!!!💯👍

Rakim's rhymes on this one, as in his other cuts, are insane. This one just happens to have even doper lines and metaphors. "The 5 boroughs react and all the islands attract and every state can't wait, so they attack an open spot on the floor squeezed in cuz it's packed but there would be more room if emcees played the back. I'm the R the A to the KIM, if I wasn't, then why would I say I am". A beast

"The only time I stop is when somebody drop...bring'em to front cuz my rhymes the oxygen."whhoooo

I was just listening to that part, that's why he's #1 nuf said he doesn't just rhymes or MCs he educates

This shit so hot burns ya ears fire

still one of the illest songs I ever heard!