Lyrics by Rakim

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1. King's Paradise
2. Flow Forever
3. Guess Who's Back
4. In The Ghetto
5. When I Be On The Mic
6. Won't Be Long (feat. Tracey Horton)
7. Addictive
8. All Night Long
9. Bring It On
10. Casualties Of War
11. Concrete Jungle
12. Dedicated
13. Documentary Of a Gangsta
14. Eric B Is President
15. Finest Ones
16. Follow The Leader
17. Heat It Up
18. Holy Are U
19. How I Get Down
20. How To Emcee
21. I Ain't No Joke
22. I Get Visual
23. I Know
24. I Know You Got Soul
25. I'll Be There
26. I'll Bust 'em, You Punish 'em
27. Intro
28. It's a Must
29. It's Been a Long Time
30. It's The R
31. Juice
32. Let The Rhythm Hit Em
33. Living For The City
34. Lyrics Of Fury
35. Mahogany
36. Man Above (Feat. Tracey Horton)
37. Microphone Fiend
38. Move The Crowd
39. Murderer
40. My Melody
41. Mystery
42. New York
43. Outro
44. Paid In Full
45. Psychic Love
46. Puedo Reir
47. Put It All To Music
48. R.A.K.I.M.
49. Real Shit
50. Remember That
51. Satisfaction Guaranteed
52. Show Me Love
53. Skit
54. Stay Awhile
55. Still In Love
56. Strong Island
57. Take The Train
58. The 18th Letter
59. The Militia Ii
60. The Punisher
61. The Saga Begins
62. The Skit (dialogue)
63. Una Noche Mas
64. Up Lift
65. Waiting For The World To End
66. Walk These Streets (feat. Maino)
67. We'll Never Stop
68. When I'm Flowin
69. You And I (feat. Samuel Christian)

William Michael Griffin Jr. (born January 28, 1968), better known by his stage name Rakim (), is an American rapper. He is one half of golden age hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, with whom he released four albums: Paid in Full (1987), Follow the Leader (1988), Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em (1990), and Don't Sweat the Technique (1992). He also released four solo albums: The 18th Letter (1997), The Master (1999), The Seventh Seal (2009), and G.O.D.'s Network: Reb7rth (2024). Rakim is considered a transformative figure in hip hop for raising the bar for MC technique higher than it had ever been. Rakim helped to pioneer the use of internal rhymes and multisyllabic rhymes, and he was among the first to demonstrate the possibilities of sitting down to write intricately crafted lyrics packed with clever word choices and metaphors rather than the more improvisational styles and simpler rhyme patterns that predominated before him. Rakim is also credited with creating the overall shift from the more simplistic old school flows to more complex flows. Rapper Kool Moe Dee explained that before Rakim, the term 'flow' wasn't widely used – "Rakim is basically the inventor of flow. We were not even using the word flow until Rakim came along. It was called rhyming, it was called cadence, but it wasn't called flow. Rakim created flow!" Paid in Full was named the greatest hip hop album of all time by MTV in 2006, while Rakim himself was ranked No. 4 on MTV's list of the Greatest MCs of All Time. Steve Huey of AllMusic stated that "Rakim is near-universally acknowledged as one of the greatest MCs – perhaps the greatest – of all time within the hip-hop community". The editors of About.com ranked him No. 2 on their list of the 'Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007)'. In 2012, The Source ranked him No. 1 on their list of the "Top 50 Lyricists of All Time".

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