if you think rakim should be in that list purely because of his lyrical ability then you can't say big daddy kane should be replaced when he's one of the greatest lyricists in the rap world. Big daddy kane was stringing together multiple syllable rhymes, alliteration, metaphors, assonance rhyming ect just as early if not earlier than rakim was.
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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage,
the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."
"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"
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