Eric B. & Rakim
Paid In Full 2LP vinyl

If you don't have this, you need it. It's the rare convergence of audio and visual quality that elevates street product into art. The tracklist SWOLE with super-high ratio of classics? Check. Quotables upon quotables on top of drum machine brilliance? Top 5 bootleg gear / outfit coordination / art direction (don't even get us started on DOOKIE ROPE)? Check check and more check. Yeah, this is like your library card into hip-hop nerdom. You're not allowed to mouth along to "Shook Ones" in the club if you can't recite the first verse of "Eric B. Is President." Many producers have sat under the stars and pondered the beautiful moment when Dennis Edwards' bassline was injected into Ashley's Roachclip (the fifth single on the album!). Yeah, we can't even get mad at "Chinese Arithmetic," there's some reverence in those cuts. Or what about Eric B. having the balls to stick the DJ cut as the second track on the album... wait rewind to that first track... the best 808 bass kick intro on album ever? Official 2018 reissue comes on double LP with replica pic sleeve and 4th & B'way labels. Recommended.

NEW / Released in 1987 / Reissue 2018

Tracklist:

A1 I Ain't No Joke

A2 Eric B. Is On The Cut

A3 My Melody

B1 I Know You Got Soul

B2 Move The Crowd

C1 Paid In Full

C2 As The Rhyme Goes On

C3 Chinese Arithmetic

D1 Eric B. Is President

D2 Extended Beat