Paid In Full
LABEL: 4th & Broadway
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: D.J. Tracks On Hip Hop Albums
RELEASE YEAR: 1987
CATALOGUE NO: BRLP 514
RUNOUT GROOVES: BRLP514A//1-420 EX 11 (Side A) BRLP514B//1-420 EX 11 (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in July 1987 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
ERIC B. & RAKIM ‘Paid In Full’ (US 4th + B’way BWAY 4005)
Master mixer Louis Eric Barrier and rapper Rakim ‘The R’ (gleaned from their jewellery) go for gold with a drily understated excellent scratch set featuring of course their Bobby Byrd-cutting 103⅚bpm ‘I Know You Got Soul‘ disco smash plus new Dope Mixes by Marley Marl of the 0-96⅓bpm ‘Eric B Is President‘ and 0-88½bpm ‘My Melody‘, while Dennis Edwards’ ‘Don’t Look Any Further’ bass line backs the hot 98⅚bpm title track — just one of the beats and hints to be spotted in the 104-0bpm ‘It Ain’t No Joke‘, 0-100bpm ‘Eric B Is On The Cut‘, 90⅔-0bpm ‘Move The Crowd‘, 0-93-0bpm ‘As The Rhyme Goes On‘, 90⅔bpm ‘Extended Beat‘, and brilliantly scratched instrumental 0-101⅔-0bpm ‘Chinese Arithmetic‘.
SIDE A: ERIC B. IS ON THE CUT
MIXED BY: Eric B.
LENGTH: 03:46
SIDE B: CHINESE ARITHMETIC
MIXED BY: Eric B.
LENGTH: 04:04
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a D.J. cut-up.
SIDE A:
I AIN'T NO JOKE - Eric B. & Rakim
MY MELODY - Eric B. & Rakim
I KNOW YOU GOT SOUL - Eric B. & Rakim
MOVE THE CROWD - Eric B. & Rakim
SIDE B:
PAID IN FULL - Eric B. & Rakim
AS THE RHYME GOES ON - Eric B. & Rakim
ERIC B. IS PRESIDENT - Eric B. & Rakim
EXTENDED BEAT - Eric B. & Rakim
