Eric B & Rakim
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Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, August 1987
THE BOY Rakim has a helluva style on the mike. ...
Eric B & Rakim: Paid In Full (4th & Broadway/Island)
Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 12 September 1987
AFTER GO-GO'S burial come murmurs of the death of hip hop. Has it seized up? Why has the string of rap egos and attendant DJs ...
Eric B and Rakim: The Rap Payback
Interview by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 10 October 1987
SEAN O'HAGAN chills out, cuts the ice and pumps it up with rap's sharpest rhythm-monger ERIC — "all the best music has a bad image" ...
Report by Simon Frith, Jon Savage, The Observer, 18 October 1987
SIMON FRITH and JON SAVAGE on more copyright complexities ...
LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Eric B & Rakim: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 7 November 1987
SOFA, SO GOOOOOOD! ...
Eric B & Rakim: Bought and Sould
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 14 November 1987
WITH A HIT ALBUM AND THE TOP 30 SINGLE, 'PAID IN FULL', ERIC B & RAKIM HAVE FINALLY FOUND SUCCESS WITH THEIR UNCOMPROMISING BRAND OF ...
Public Enemy/Eric B And Rakim: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 12 December 1987
PUBLIC NUISANCE ...
Eric B & Rakim: The Motormouths Speed On!
Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 2 July 1988
With the American music biz finally embracing hip hop, Eric B & Rakim – contract expired – have been able to cash in their uncompromised ...
Report and Interview by Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 5 August 1988
Club violence and the whiff of gunsmoke are accompanying rap's rise to prominence in the United States. Bruce Dessau reports ...
New albums from Stetsasonic, Masters Of Ceremony, Eric B. & Rakim and Salt 'N' Pepa
Review by Randall Grass, Musician, October 1988
Stetsasonic: In Full Gear (Tommy Boy); Masters Of Ceremony: Dynamite (4th & Broadway); Eric B. & Rakim: Follow the Leader (UNI); Salt 'N' Pepa: <i>A ...
Eric B & Rakim: Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em (MCA DMCG 6097)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 22 June 1990
THE GOLD rope worn by Eric B on the cover of the duo's first album for MCA is the largest I've seen, a ludicrous piece ...
Eric B & Rakim: Don't Sweat The Technique (MCA/All formats)
Review by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 20 June 1992
SWEAT SOUL MUSIC ...
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, December 1995
Once upon a rhyme, a young rapper called Rakim hooked up with a deejay named Eric B. The collision was cataclysmic and their impact deadly. ...
Eric B & Rakim: Paid In Full: Platinum Edition (Island) *****
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 31 October 1998
IN THE LATE EIGHTIES, Eric B & Rakim were, simply, the coolest sonic and lyrical innovators hip hop had ever seen: street-level poets and musical ...
Interview by Alex Ogg, unpublished, 1999
Marley Marl talks about his inadvertent "invention" of the drum sample and his involvement in the first Eric B and Rakim record. This was originally ...
Retrospective and Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, September 2003
Back in 1986 hip hop entered a golden age — lyrical revolution, sonic innovation, and individuality — that gave rise to such rap legends as ...
Eric B. & Rakim: Apollo Theater, Harlem
Live Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 10 July 2017
Eric B. & Rakim play to their die-hard fans at Paid in Full tribute show ...
Best Eric B And Rakim Songs: 20 Trailblazing Tracks
Guide by Ben Merlis, uDiscoverMusic, 28 January 2021
Measuring up to anything laid down a quarter century ago, the best Eric B And Rakim songs remain timeless and hugely influential. ...
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