So, I'm in the deli of my local grocery store buying some sausages, and the very nice young Gen Z serving me has the nametag "Eric B". And I couldn't help myself, I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF, I had to ask him "How's Rakim?". And, of course, he just looked at m...
My employee walked up to me yesterday and opened up the box full of cannoli. "Would you like one"? I instinctively quipped back: "But do I have to leave the gun though?" An eerie silence and awkward looks ensued as if I were from another planet...
I was listening to music at a party with a friend who is 20 years younger. I told him the vocalist on the track that was playing reminded me of Mick Jagger. He asked “who’s that ?”
But if you like to listen to any modern-day rap or hip-hop, all the artists today owe a debt of gratitude to the artists of the eighties who founded this genre of music. And one of the earliest and most influential duos were Eric B & Rakim.