{"product_id":"eric-b-rakim-follow-the-leader","title":"Eric B. \u0026 Rakim - Follow the Leader","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaid In Full made Rakim the most respected rapper in New York. Follow the Leader, released a year later in 1988, is where he decided to prove it was not a fluke. The title track opens with a bassline that sounds like a car chase and a first verse that spirals outward into astronomy, mythology and pure technical showing-off, and the album never really comes back down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Microphone Fiend\" is the other cornerstone, four minutes of Rakim describing his own addiction to rapping over a loop that has been sampled and referenced continuously ever since. \"Lyrics Of Fury\" is the pure display piece, a barrage of multisyllabic rhyme that rappers still cite as the benchmark. \"The R\" and \"Put Your Hands Together\" show Eric B. widening the palette, adding live-feeling percussion and more melodic sample choices than the debut allowed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded at Power Play Studios with Patrick Adams and Carlton Batts engineering, and mastered at Frankford\/Wayne, the record trades the stark minimalism of Paid In Full for something fuller and more confident. Stevie Blass Griffin is credited with the music throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis double LP reissue spreads the album across four sides on Geffen and UNI. The record where Rakim moved rap writing permanently forward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMS","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47593243017378,"sku":null,"price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/01726e0e-b838-43e7-935c-9e14f1b9f4ed_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1787887527","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/es\/products\/eric-b-rakim-follow-the-leader","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}