Original sentence: " Prior to Rakim's arrival on the scene, hip hop rhyming had still had strong ties to rapping's roots in improvisatory toasting, being in very regular meter and rhyme scheme (Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, etc), with simple lyrics and a steady and heavily prounounced rhythm.Eric B.In 1985 he met the Queens-based DJ Eric B, with whom he soon formed a musical partnership.Rakim, however, introduced the idea of a rapid, continuous, free-rhythmic flow, based around multisyllabic and internal rhymes; the All Music Guide's Steve Huey wrote in the early 2000s that "Rakim's flow is smooth and liquid, inflected with jazz rhythms and carried off with an effortless cool that makes it sound as though he's not even breaking a sweat.and Rakim subsequently became one of the most well-known and influential groups to emerge from hip hop's so-called "golden age" of approximately 1987-1992, with many of their tracks becoming hip hop classics, including "Follow The Leader", "Paid In Full", "Eric B Is President" and "Microphone Fiend
Edited sentence: Before him, hip hop rhyming had still had strong ties to rapping's roots in improvisatory toasting, being in very regular meter and rhyme scheme (Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, etc), with simple lyrics and a steady and heavily prounounced rhythm.Following the advent of Rakim's revolutionary rhyming style, hip hop music underwent a momentous transformation.Rakim, however, pioneered the idea of a rapid, continuous, free-rhythmic flow, based around multisyllabic and internal rhymes, meticulously engineered on the written page and which often required considerable skill in breath control and rhythmic awareness to deliver effectively; the All Music Guide's Steve Huey wrote in the early 2000s that "Rakim's flow is smooth and liquid, inflected with jazz rhythms and carried off with an effortless cool that makes it sound as though he's not even breaking a sweat