Eric B. told The Chicago Tribune in 2019 that even though he hadn’t performed with Rakim in a while, he considered him family. “Time has escaped you so long, and you looked up and said ...

Eric Barrier—half of the legendary hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim—had just learned they were nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame when he picked up the phone for this interview.

An odd series of events led to “Pump Up The Volume,” and it’s likely ... The key piece, naturally, is the vocal sample from Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul,” but it’s enhanced ...

They teamed up as teenagers, Rakim contributing immortal lines like “thinking of a master plan/’cause ain’t nothin’ but sweat inside my hand” while Eric B. dug for crucial samples like ...

And it’s like that with Eric B. and Rakim. Rakim: Me and him didn’t have a problem. We had a business problem. … The business, it went bad and that’s why the group broke up. We never had a ...

This album was also the last LP that Eric B. & Rakim recorded together as a duo. Produced by Eric B. with some production assistance from an up and coming producer by the name of Large Professor ...

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 ...