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Originally Posted by packs
I'm a fan of Eric B and Rakim too but their music has little relevance to today's hip hop. Illmatic sounds like it could have come out yesterday and it's 23 years old. The only album I'd hold up next to it is 36 Chambers or Ready To Die.
Sorry, but we don't get to discuss hip hop very much and in a way (thanks to Peter Nash) it's on topic for a change.
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Rakim is one of the, if not THE greatest rappers of all time. The music doesn't sound dated at all. You can play "Follow The Leader" or "Eric B Is President" in a club to this day, and the floor will be packed. As much as I don't consider rap to be "real music", I did like a lot of the early stuff.