Eric B & Rakim: Paid In Full (4th & Broadway BRLP 5I4/CD)
Damon Wise, Sounds, 19 September 1987
CENTS, NICKELS, dimes, quarters, dollar bills... if the ringing of the cash till is truly the sound of the American heartbeat, then no one can say that rap music doesn't have its finger on the pulse. There's never been glamour in poverty, so it's no wonder that black America has so emphatically turned its back on its ragged-arsed heritage.
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