I'd like to take issue...

...with Mr. J. Freedom du Lac's (Seriously? That's his name?) insistence in this morning's Washington Post that "Rakim is without question the greatest rapper of all time." Now, Rakim may or may nor be the greatest rapper of all time, despite similar proclamations from Jay-Z, Nas, L.L. Cool-J, among others. But, we cannot even begin to have this conversation without mentioning Tupac and Biggie - which makes Monsieur du Lac's assertion extremely questionable.