When hip-hop got its start 50 years ago, it was a DJ cutting between two record albums and an MC rhyming over the beats. The the rhymes had predictable patterns; they almost always fell at the ends of ...

Eric B. and Rakim – architects of some the funkiest, smoothest, slick-talkingest records of rap’s Golden Era – are currently on their first tour since the duo parted ways in 1992. The impact of their ...

As has been stated ad infinitum for decades now, Eric B. & Rakim's debut album is one of the most influential and fully-developed debuts in music history. When a pioneering album becomes so ...

With their 1987 debut album Paid in Full, Eric B. & Rakim introduced internal rhyme schemes to rap, and changed the flow of hip-hop forever. Eric B. & Rakim change the flow of rap with 'Paid in Full' ...