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Rakim Told Me choose

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[US] B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 14: Saddle shoes make a great 808 on a parquet floor.
at 808, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 195: [A] local pimp named Hot Lips who they knew from around the way.
at around the way, adj.
[US] B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 35: We was just intent on bustin’ ass.
at bust ass under ass, n.
[US] 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.
[US] B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 147: ‘I was a one-man team coming into school, with no back-up’.
at back up, n.2
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 226: ‘I was blown away. I was humbled and embarrassed’.
at blown (out), adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 119: Using a sample swiped from the Troggs’ frat rock evergreen ‘Wild Thing’ .
at frat, n.
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