Slick Rick,Kool G Rap etc (you get the point, all supposed "better" mc's...

I'm sure Rakim wishes he could have and ENVIES the kind of career Ace has enjoyed

he has outlasted his contemporaries and stayed relavant longer than his peers (IE all the above)

continues to release lps way after some MC's stopped makeing lps (Slick Rick & BDK...KRS doesnt count as he releases 38 lps a year 3/4 which no one hears)

continues to find, develop and work with "new" talent (see the Show)

releases cohesive concept lps (all of his lps)

inspired one of the modern era's best MC's Eminem

matterfact his career arc just started to top out as most of his peers became dinosaurs

oh yeah he has more CLASSIC lps then all of them

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"Good hair"-Uzi

1619 the 1st slaves are brought to American shores
thus begins the phrase “mine is better than yours?” (huh?)
forced to serve-too broke to by freedom
the systematic rape of African culture has begun
little time