Stronger three-album run? Eric B. & Rakim vs. EPMD

[LevelUp]

 

[General Mills]

EPMD for me. No disrespect to Rakim and Eric B.


EPMD is my favorite all time duo. Those 1st three albums were the soundtrack to my life. I grew up on them brehs and shed real tears when they broke up

 

[Bolzmark]

EPMD are hip hop icons but this one goes to Eric B. & Rakim. Paid in Full is DEEP in the conversation of greatest hip hop album of all time.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

EPMD for me. No disrespect to Rakim and Eric B.


EPMD is my favorite all time duo. Those 1st three albums were the soundtrack to my life. I grew up on them brehs and shed real tears when they broke up

Yea EPMD holds a special place for me. I grew up on them. They were the coolest rappers to me

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Man it should be mando that you have to put up a poll for threads like this

 

[surv2syn]

not easy. you can run all 3 EPMD albums and not skip one track. they didnt have any weak songs. Follow the Leader was not one of my favorite albums but the singles were all strong. it had some really high highs. Let the Rhythm Hit Em was my shyt. @Bolzmark is right tho, even tho Strictly Business was one of the greatest albums of all times....I would rank PiF over it every time. you are talking a top 10-15 album against a top 5 album in Hip Hop history without a doubt. probably no less than top 3 if we being honest.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

erik b & rakim for me

 

[Piff Perkins]

Eric B & Rakim for me.

 

[up in here]

The production on EPMD’s joints was so ahead of its time. You can tell just by the fact that a lot of those beats were remade by other producers throughout the 90s.

But Rakim’s mic presence is too great for me. Rakim is just the embodiment of hiphop to me and during that period he was untouchable.

So I gotta give it to Eric B and Rakim on the strength of Rakim just being the greatest MC to ever do it at that time

 

[Mikeatris]

EPMD easy but both catalogs are top notch. Business As Usual came out in '90 and I still have the original tape and I play that album damn near once a week. For MY People tho

 

[Awesome Wells]

EPMD.

Their run was actually 4 classics in a row, if we're being honest. What Erick was doing with production from '88-'92 was way ahead of its time. Their first 4 albums are untouchable.

Paid in Full and Follow the Leader were full of classic tracks, but things started to slide around Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em. But with EPMD, they got better album after album. Business as Usual is still their best album, to me. And that's a straight listen, with no skips, even today. The issue with Eric B and Rakim, was that they couldn't get the production to match where Ra was lyrically. So their sh*t got stagnant around the third album, with their best work being on the first two joints.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

EPMD.

Their run was actually 4 classics in a row, if we're being honest. What Erick was doing with production from '88-'92 was way ahead of its time. Their first 4 albums are untouchable.

Paid in Full and Follow the Leader were full of classic tracks, but things started to slide around Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em. But with EPMD, they got better album after album. Business as Usual is still their best album, to me. And that's a straight listen, with no skips, even today. The issue with Eric B and Rakim, was that they couldn't get the production to match where Ra was lyrically. So their sh*t got stagnant around the third album, with their best work being on the first two joints.

I still believe Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em is Eric B. & Rakim's best album. Paid in Full and Follow the Leader have some of the greatest hip hop songs ever recorded, but Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em is their first album I can play all the way through.

EPMD's my choice, though. The consistency over four albums is incredible (Business as Usual is actually my least favorite).

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

EPMD was untouchable.

 

[LevelUp]

Kinda surprised by some of y'all picks I give this to Rakim