Eric B & Rakim: Paid In Full: Platinum Edition (Island) *****
Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 31 October 1998
IN THE LATE EIGHTIES, Eric B & Rakim were, simply, the coolest sonic and lyrical innovators hip hop had ever seen: street-level poets and musical visionaries burning past the rest of rap to find a chilled, ferociously avant-garde sound still unsurpassed a decade on, still being reinterpreted in kind by the cutting edge of the nu skool.
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