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Touching on the classic rap battle that never was, Rakim remembers his people questioning whether Big Daddy Kane was taking subliminals at him. After hearing the line “I see leaders and I laugh,” Ra says he went into the studio to lay down “Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em” and had four bars going right at Kane. After a mutual friend of theirs took it to Kane to let him hear it, Kane called up Rakim and let him know he didn’t have no personal beef with him and he never wrote rhymes about him. As for the bars, “Rippin’ your wrath in half, who gets the last laugh? Followers become leaders but without a path you’re mentally paralyzed/crippled your third eye/rhymes are blurred then it occurred that you heard…” Whew! We not condoning retro beef but that’s a battle that should’ve happened but strictly been kept on wax. Just sayin.’
