Rakim

Rakim

Style marker

Syncopated third-beat rhythm

Rakim's Microphone Fiend (1988) uses the highlighted rhythm pattern, typical of rap in the '70s and '80s:

Transcript of a line from Eric B. & Rakim's 1988 song Microphone Fiend.
Microphone Fiend (1988)

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