This album is turning 30 in about two months. Have you listened

>>72902897
great album, cutting edge production in a time everyone was doing rock riffs over 808s, Rakim is a great lyricist

Criminal Minded will always be my favorite 80s record, but i always preferred early 90s boom bap over the real golden age shit

>>72902897
It's great but it's not my favourite...

Kool moe Dee's "How Ya Like me now" has no bad tracks

I know it's simplistic, but hip hop was best when it delivered starightforward beats & "I rule, everybody else sucks" rhymin'

>>72902964
So what's the real golden age? I think some people say around 85-91.
My opinion is that there are two golden ages.
87-96 and 98-05. 97 was a pretty shitty year
>>72902987
I quote Charlie Murphy
>Kool Moe Dee was a fake Curtis Blow

I was first year in high-school (turning 20 this year), and while I was going through buildings delivering flyers I was bumping this, still love it actually, which is rare.

>>72902897
Amazing album, so many classic songs. Rakim is easily top 5 greatest rappers of all time and maybe even the best

>>72903228
Rakim and Kool Keith har battling for the first place in my opinion.

>>72903289
I like Kool Keith fine, but I'll never understand how anyone can give him a shot at GOAT.

His flow is weird and he just says equally weird shit that just happens to rhyme.

>>72903381
Rakim redefined the genre. Arguably more than any other MC

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>>72903381
Old rapheads always pick Rakim, KRS or Kane. Cause they the greats from that era. But people forget about Kool Keith and Ultramagnetic MCs. You could call him the pioneer of abstract raps and you have him to thank for rappers like MF Doom, Quasimoto and Company Flow.

>>72903454
tfw i bought a box of old hip hop tapes and Ultramags LP was in it
oddly enough people pay about $30 for it routinely i was shocked i didnt think there was a scene for hip hope tapes