![]() Together, their peerless technique on the microphone and turntables upped the ante for all who followed them, and their advancement of Hip-Hop as an art form has been acknowledged by everyone from Gang Starr to the Wu-Tang Clan to Eminem. His articulation was clear, his delivery seemingly effortless, and his influence on subsequent MCs incalculable. ![]() He crafted his rhymes like poetry, filling his lines with elaborate metaphors and complex internal rhymes, and he played with the beat like a jazzman, earning a reputation as the smoothest-flowing MC ever to pick up a mic. Rakim, meanwhile, still tops fan polls as the greatest MC of all time. ![]() was a hugely influential DJ and beatmaker whose taste for hard-hitting James Brown samples touched off a stampede through the Godfather of Soul’s back catalogue that continues up to the present day. Not only was their chemistry superb, but individually, each represented the absolute state of the art in their respective skills. & Rakim were almost universally recognized as the premier DJ/MC team in all of Hip-Hop. They never had a mainstream hit of their own, but during rap’s so-called golden age in the late ’80s, Eric B.
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