![]() ![]() ![]() This is the purest, most adjective-less hip-hop album ever made. Everyone should own this album not simply because it set the stage for so much, but because you'd be hard-pressed to find an album that better exemplifies hip-hop at it's most undiluted and unapologetic. 30 years later, it's both a document of the times and a clear place marker in music history. (born Eric Barrier, November 8, 1965) and MC Rakim (born William Michael Griffin Jr., January 28, 1968). Everything from Master P's "Ghetto D" to Eminem's "The Way I Am" quotes from the album, the iconic cover-which features Eric and Ra clad in Dapper Dan's distinctive custom Gucci suits-has seen innumerable tributes and parodies. & Rakim is a legendary duo, composed of DJ Eric B. ![]() Virtually every song on the album features lines that have been absorbed into every hip-hop fan's consciousness-even if they may be unaware of the source material. Rakim's introducing of Five Percenter tenets in his lyrics would foreshadow the rise of more overtly-nationalist acts also informed by the Nation of Gods and Earths-like Brand Nubian and X-Clan in the early 1990s and the duo's steely "nobody's smiling" image would replace the bombastic b-boys of the mid-1980s as mainstream rappers' most definitive presentation. But even in the context of the duo's remarkable overall run, Paid In Full looms large. ![]()
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