http://berkshireblueprint.net/sarah-mclachlan Remix, Mash-ups, and the changing nature of creative Expression Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:37:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://berkshireblueprint.net/sarah-mclachlan/comment-page-1#comment-11 Vesa Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:37:52 +0000 http://berkshireblueprint.net/?p=23#comment-11 Eric Barrier (Eric B.) and William Griffin (Rakim), were a hip-hop duo known as Eric B. & Rakim. The duo popularized the jazz-influenced hip-hop of the late 1980s. Despite spawning no major chart hits, the pair is generally considered to be one of the most influential and groundbreaking groups in the history of hip hop, due to both Eric B.'s jazzy production and Rakim's revolutionary rhyming style, which was smooth, seemingly effortless, and used remarkably complex rhyming schemes involving internal rhymes and sophisticated metaphors. It is the general consensus that almost all modern MCs have been influenced in some way by Rakim's rhyming technique. Eric B.'s use of a James Brown sample in "I Know You Got Soul" introduced the godfather period of extensive use of old R&B and soul music as background music for hip hop songs. Eric Barrier (Eric B.) and William Griffin (Rakim), were a hip-hop duo known as Eric B. & Rakim. The duo popularized the jazz-influenced hip-hop of the late 1980s. Despite spawning no major chart hits, the pair is generally considered to be one of the most influential and groundbreaking groups in the history of hip hop, due to both Eric B.’s jazzy production and Rakim’s revolutionary rhyming style, which was smooth, seemingly effortless, and used remarkably complex rhyming schemes involving internal rhymes and sophisticated metaphors. It is the general consensus that almost all modern MCs have been influenced in some way by Rakim’s rhyming technique. Eric B.’s use of a James Brown sample in “I Know You Got Soul” introduced the godfather period of extensive use of old R&B and soul music as background music for hip hop songs.

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