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2990284, about the Rakim part of your post
Posted by Garhart Poppwell, Sun May-14-17 09:52 AM
those rhymes on PIF were 3 years old when he released his debut, and he was 15 when he wrote most of them. I'm not sure how that skews in your Ed comparison, but it's definitely worth a mention because nobody ever started off that high, that soon.

I remember when Special Ed first hit, and it seemed like he came out of nowhere. And he was super sharp from day one, like thinking back on it it's rare even today for someone to be half as good as he was out of the gate.