Released in July 1987, Paid in Full landed with a resounding mic drop. Despite its modest 10-song track list, Eric B.’s keen ear for obscure samples and Rakim’s smooth, nearly scat-like ...

But in 1987, there was a seismic shift in the complexity of rap activated by Eric B. & Rakim and their album Paid in Full. They introduced internal rhyme schemes that pushed rap into new ...

“Paid In Full”. Even though Eric B. and Rakim just reunited as a group in 2018, this album solidified them as one of the greatest Hip Hop duo’s in the culture’s history and we here at The ...

Eric B. & Rakim released their first album “Paid in Full” in 1987 on 4th & B’way Records, a subsidiary of Island Records that was dedicated to hip-hop. Although the teens had no prior ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A vital hip hop breakthrough. In 1987, New York duo Eric B & Rakim released one of the most ...

Eric B. & Rakim usher in hip-hop’s Golden Age with their debut album, Paid in Full. The album cover features custom clothing created by hip-hop’s go-to fashion designer at the time, Dapper Dan.

Rakim, highlighting the duo’s “extraordinary” contribution to the genre. “You think about ‘Eric B is President,'” he said per Asbury Park Press. “You think about ‘Paid in Full.’ ...

one of the culture’s most prolific duo’s Eric B. & Rakim released their sophomore LP Follow the Leader. Coming shortly after their game-changing debut, Paid in Full, their second album ...

Barrier and William “Rakim” Griffin—has released four studio albums, including their platinum-selling debut, Paid In Full. Released in 1987, the project spawned the classics “Eric B.

Unbeknownst to even the most ardent Eric B. & Rakim fans, he helped produce a lot of their early material, including Paid in Full and Follow the Leader. “I always did music on all my albums ...

Four decades after putting out his breakthrough project with Eric B., Paid In Full, Rakim has returned with a landmark album entitled G.O.D.’S NETWORK (REB7RTH). The project marks his fourth ...