Follow The Leader
LABEL: M.C.A.
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: D.J. Tracks On Hip Hop Albums
RELEASE YEAR: 1988
CATALOGUE NO: MCG 6031
RUNOUT GROOVES: MCG6031A-1U-1-1 (Side A) MCG6031B-1U-1-1 (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in August 1988 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
ERIC B. & RAKIM ‘Follow The Leader’ (MCA Records MCG 6031)
Possibly nothing on this eagerly awaited album stands out as startlingly as did its revolutionary 109⅔-0bpm title track hit on first hearing, in similar swirling style being the slippery scratching 117¼bpm ‘No Competition’, slow piano preambled then scrubbing (0-)111⅓bpm ‘Put Your Hands Together‘, funky drummered 106-0bpm ‘Lyrics Of Fury‘ and rumbling 111½-0bpm ‘Musical Massacre‘, plus there are the jazz-funky 99½bpm ‘The R‘, freakily throbbing and scratching 0-103½bpm ‘Eric B. Never Scared‘, moodily meandering 93½bpm ‘To The Listeners‘, jinglebells backed chatting then jolting 94bpm ‘Microphone Fiend‘, jogging instrumental 97bpm ‘Beats For The Listeners‘ and even more makeweight 0-114bpm ‘Just A Beat‘. Like it or not, they’ll need a Coldcut-type remix to go Top 20 here again with anything else off this.
SIDE A: ERIC B. NEVER SCARED
MIXED BY: Eric B.
LENGTH: 05:13
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a D.J. cut-up.
SIDE A:
FOLLOW THE LEADER - Eric B. & Rakim
MICROPHONE FIEND - Eric B. & Rakim
LYRICS OF FURY - Eric B. & Rakim
JUST A BEAT - Eric B. & Rakim
SIDE B:
PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER - Eric B. & Rakim
TO THE LISTENERS - Eric B. & Rakim
NO COMPETITION - Eric B. & Rakim
THE R - Eric B. & Rakim
MUSICAL MASSACRE - Eric B. & Rakim
BEATS FOR THE LISTENERS - Eric B. & Rakim
