As hip-hop has grown into a billion dollar industry, hooks from R&B singers have helped rappers take over the pop charts, and hip-hop has, in turn, influenced the changing sound of soul music.

This year's lineup spans generations and genres, bringing together hitmakers, and cultural torchbearers, including Busta Rhymes, Redman, Eric B. & Rakim ... a set full of songs the culture ...

Rakim, Erik B. and the Mediæval Bæbes. The producers were able to secure licenses for most of the songs they sought, but the controversial nature of the property led to some artists declining ...

Lewis famously got a shoutout in 1987’s “Paid in Full,” on which Eric B. and Rakim explain ... platforms and a failure to fairly pay for songs.” ...

All of that set against country music," said showrunner and executive producer Erik Oleson ("Daredevil," "Carnival Row ... "Jen and I wrote a whole bunch of songs, a few of which are in the show, and ...

It’s so dope that one of the best songs from Eric B. and Rakim’s classic 1987 album, “Paid in Full,” is on this list. The list of artists that have sampled this song is interesting ...

From Prince to the Beastie Boys to Eric B and Rakim to LL Cool J to Kool Moe Dee ... the soundtrack was curated with thought. The songs aligned with the era and the themes.

In 1984, Haza released an album called Yemenite Songs which she dedicated to her ... was commissioned to produce a remix of the Eric B and Rakim song “Paid in Full”, it was released with ...

But in the beginning, rap was, to be frank, a boyz-to-men affair: Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B and Rakim ... the love-rap dynamic with songs like “I’ll House You ...

II” by Mobb Deep, and “I Ain’t No Joke” by Eric B and Rakim just to name a few ... a record label and distribution company well known in the hip-hop world. The songs contained are all from NBA 2K25’s ...

Such legendary two-pieces as Eric B and Rakim, OutKast, Black Star and Run ... today's headlines often can be parsed from the songs. Nowhere is that more true than on the shimmering, simmering ...

When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s ... the queen of ASMR’n’b almost never ascended to ...