PAID IN FULL is perhaps the most important album of the middle-school era of hip-hop--"I Know You Got Soul," "I Ain't No Joke," and "Eric B. Is President" are as classic as hip-hop songs get. Eric B. & Rakim pioneered the minimalist sound that would form the new-school of hip-hop aesthetics with Eric B.'s innovative distillation of James Brown samples to pure drum and bass-line splendor and Rakim's narcissistic monotonal lyrical bombast. The title cut forwarded the manifesto that all others in hip-hop were to follow: the eternal search for dead presidents.

Personnel: Rakim (raps), Eric B. (scratches).
Recorded at Power Play Studios, New York, New York.

• Format: Vinyl
• 2 LP
• Genre: Hip Hop
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Track Listing:

A1 I Ain't No Joke 3:54
A2 Eric B. Is On The Cut 3:48
A3 My Melody 6:46
B1 I Know You Got Soul 4:46
B2 Move The Crowd 4:23
C1 Paid In Full 3:50
C2 As The Rhyme Goes On 4:00
C3 Chinese Arithmetic 4:07
D1 Eric B. Is President 6:15
D2 Extended Beat 3:49