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The best description I've ever seen of Rakim's voice comes from the Spin Alternative Record Guide, which was pretty much the Bible for aspiring teenage rock critics in the '90s. In that book, James Hunter wrote that Rakim's "smoking tone implies danger rather than constantly dressing up in it." That's pretty much it. Rakim is one of the general-consensus greatest ...
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