2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 65: ‘Patrick [Adams, a recording engineer] was the guy who first turned me on to the 808’ .at 808, n.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 182: By late 1987 into early 1988, it was all about Eazy's record, which hit first and paved the way for Straight Outta Compton.at all about, phr.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 195: [A] local pimp named Hot Lips who they knew from around the way.at around the way, adj.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 101: ‘I didn’t want to just walk up on these grown-ass people and demand shit’.at grown-assed, adj.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 147: ‘I was a one-man team coming into school, with no back-up’.at back up, n.2
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 22: [W]hen I woke up at one or two the next day I played it and was like ‘What the fuck is this??!!??’ But I played it for the crew and they went ballistic. It was instant.at go ballistic (v.) under ballistic, adj.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 209: ‘[T]hat song was the one that really banged them out on the streets when the single hit’.at bang, v.1
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 65: ‘I used that song [‘I Ain’t No Joke’] a long time before I met Eric, so that's another Rakim banger right there’.at banger, n.1
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 144: ‘Back in the day it was better when you didn’t sound like anyone else. Otherwise you were considered a biter’.at biter, n.4
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 157: ‘N.W.A. did entire clean albums, but I [i.e. Ice-T]thought that was selling out. C’mon, they can bleep that shit’.at bleep, n.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 183: After Straight Outta Compton was released and proceeded to blow up [. . .] the next crew album was readied.at blow up, v.3
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 226: ‘I was blown away. I was humbled and embarrassed’.at blown (out), adj.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 222: ‘[S]omebody would have a big box and they'd be blasting a homemade tape of someone kicking rhymes’.at box, n.1
2005 in B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 42: ‘My whole thing [...] was breaking records, [...] If I liked a group I’d call up the artist and say: ‘Look, I'm gonna make your record hot’.at break, v.2
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 83: ‘[T]hey responded to that by becoming the best live group in hip-hop. Over a year they made their show absolutely bullet-proof’.at bullet-proof (adj.) under bullet, n.2
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 164: ‘We put the original 'Raw' out in the fall of ’87 [...] Greg Mack in LA was bumping it hard on KDAY’.at bump, v.1
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 100: ‘[T]here was this dude Prince who was the nicest. So I challenged him and [...] I burnt him [...] and I took his name’.at burn, v.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 156: ‘Me and PE clicked on intensity, we clicked on battle scars and we also understood each others' position’.at click onto (v.) under click, v.3
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 73: I was like Switzerland. I didn’t have no beefs. And I think that's why my first album was one that hit even more than other Juice Crew records. Everybody liked it, because it wasn’t a dis record.at diss track (n.) under dis, n.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 161: ‘Fly Ty [. . .] asked me to write some stuff for Shante, and I had a lot of respect for her, so I was like, “No doubt!”’.at no doubt!, excl.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 42: [S]hortly thereafter, the Amazing V left the group [...] Down one MC, Mixx knew just the person to fill the spot .at down, adv.4
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 96: ‘I wanted to put down a positive message with a reggae twist. It was a statement’.at put down, v.1
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 128: Kids who are sick of the artifice shown by shallow, copycat rappers [. . .] end up finding [Critical Beatdown] [...] And it still blows their mind. It still gets them dusted.at dusted, adj.1
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 157: ‘I still don’t give a fuck about radio. I've never gotten radio play and they can all eat a bowl of dicks’.at eat a bowl of dicks (v.) under eat, v.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 190: He ends our chat by dropping a newsflash that will make Juice Crew fiends froth [etc].at fiend, n.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 16: [J]ust a flea-flicker away from Fayetteville, over in Wilmington, North Carolina.at flea-flicker under flea, n.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 194: ‘You didn’t know how I was going to flow from one song to the next’.at flow, v.
2005 B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 119: Using a sample swiped from the Troggs’ frat rock evergreen ‘Wild Thing’ .at frat, n.