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| Artist | ERIC B. & RAKIM |
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| Title | LET THE RHYTHM HIT 'EM |
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| Format | 2x Vinyl LP (Album) |
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| Genre | Hip Hop |
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| Label | GEFFEN |
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| Catalog Number | 2637001 |
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| Release Date | 07/13/2018 |
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| Barcode | 0602557807530 |
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| ID | 1297290 |
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| Thirty years after its release, Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em stands as Eric "B" Barrier and William "Rakim" Griffin's most dynamic and energetic album. It also features the strongest lyrical performance by Rakim, which is no easy feat, considering that even by 1990 he was comfortably considered the God of Emceeing. As the years pass, my love for this album only grows. Eric B. & Rakim released Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em a little less than two years after Follow The Leader. Back then, that was a long time between projects. Rakim wrote in his autobiography Sweat The Technique that his lack of output was the result of his father's death in 1989. This loss was devastating to him, and he explained that for months afterwards he "felt paralyzed in my soul." He recounts sitting in his house for weeks, listening to Bob James' "Nautilus" and Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew," glued to the couch, feeling trapped in the "gilded cage" that was his career. "I didn't want to write rhymes anymore," he wrote. "I didn't want to hear hip-hop. I was done. For months I wouldn't even touch a mic. . I couldn't even set foot in the studio. . I wasn't in my own body." |
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| Track listings |
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| Media 1 |
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| 1. | LET THE RHYTHM HIT 'EM | | | 2. | NO OMEGA | | | 3. | IN THE GHETTO | | | 4. | STEP BACK | |
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| 1. | ERIC B. MADE MY DAY | | | 2. | RUN FOR COVER | | | 3. | UNTOUCHABLES | | | 4. | MAHOGANY | | | 5. | KEEP 'EM EAGER TO LISTEN | | | 6. | SET 'EM STRAIGHT | |
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