Eric B. & Rakim Talk Reunion, the Birth of Cool and Being the Greatest

Eric B. and Rakim – architects of some the funkiest, smoothest, slick-talkingest records of rap's Golden Era – are currently on their first tour since the duo parted ways in 1992. The impact of their 1987 debut LP, Paid in Full – one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time – represented nothing short of a changing of the guard: rap

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