The R is the GOAT
“Rakim rapped and wrote from a place of deep calm, a locus of furious precision that belied his youth and suggested reservoirs of wisdom and a preternatural ability to distill it into a meter that was both seamless and staccato, syllabically dense and syncopated but pocked with breathtaking instants of negative space. He was the only one you could imagine rhyming onstage at a jazz club, dropping knowledge over an upright bass...”
https://www.theringer.com/rap/2024/8/28/24229945/rakim-interview-new-album-juice-crew-paid-in-full