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 ...

Legendary hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim are getting back together for "one night only" on the 30th anniversary of their 1987 classic Paid In Full. According to Brooklyn Vegan, the show is going down at ...

A while back I was listening to "I Know You Got Soul," a single off Eric B. & Rakim's 1987 debut album Paid in Full. I'd heard it many times over the years, as any hip-hop head has, but this time a ...

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. With ...

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