Eric B and Rakim are partly responsible for elevating hip-hop from a guy doing call and response at the party, into a real art involving deep, rapid-fire lyrics that take skill to deliver.
Eric B and Rakim also signified the ideal relationship between a rapper and a DJ -- they worked together as a team and showed that this kind of compilmentary partnership can bring both much further along than if they were simply being "produced" in some studio.
Some of the tracks by Eric B and Rakim are classics due to their impact on hip-hop history, such as "Paid in Full" or "I Know You Got Soul" from their first album.
Some tracks are classics due to the cutthroat rhyming over cataclysmic beats, such as "Musical Massacre" and "Follow the Leader".
Some are classics due to Rakim's construction of thematic raps that take you on crazy journies, such as "The Ghetto" or "What's On Your Mind."
You would be wise to buy all their albums immediately and listen to them repeatedly. Period.
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