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 Barrier—half of the legendary hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim—had just learned ... wasting time. Paid in Full was always the name of the album because that was our running joke.

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 ...

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 ...

Sitting in his studio on a sunny July afternoon, he tells Rolling Stone that he produced “a lot” of the seminal Eric B and Rakim albums ... classics such as “Paid In Full,” “I Ain ...