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Encyclopedia > Eric B. and Rakim

Eric B. & Rakim was an East Coast rap group that popularized the James Brown-sampled funky hip hop of the late 1980s. Eric Barrier (Eric B.) and William Griffin (Rakim) began recording together in the middle of the decade with "Eric B. Is President" (1986 in music) from Zakia records in Harlem. Paid in Full and Follow the Leader were their full-length debuts and were hits by hip hop's standards at the time. Their last album together was Don't Sweat the Technique (1992 in music). Eric B. has begun a solo career on his own 95th Street Records label.


In the late '90's, Rakim released two solo albums which were deemed mediocre by critics and nearly ignored commercially. He signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment, and the two began work on an album that was to be titled Oh My God. However, in July, 2003, the Aftermath website announced that Rakim was dropped from the label.


Samples

  • Download sample of "Follow the Leader" from Follow the Leader

Discography

Eric B. & Rakim:

Rakim (solo albums):

  • The 18th Letter (1997)
  • The Master (1999)

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Eric B's DJ style is highly reductive, with the slimmest of samples inserted over the trebly break-beat, but this only seeks to brilliantly highlight the skills of his partner, whose highly verbose and ingenious wordplay is widely credited as being the most influential in the history of hip hop.
Rakim may be the greatest MC to ever lay his rhymes to tape but it is the explosion of sophistication from Eric B that really sets this album apart and exhorts the newly born upstarts to follow their lead.
Eric B and Rakim were the best, they knew it, and the resulting album is a work of art that is brimming with such self-acknowledged greatness that its pleasures are almost pornographic.
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