Home / Music / Paid in Full changed how rappers rhymedMusic linernotes album music eric-b-&-rakimPaid in Full changed how rappers rhymedRakim’s innovative internal rhyming and relaxed flow on Paid in Full fundamentally changed how MCs approached rap delivery. It’s credited as a benchmark album of golden age hip-hop. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesRakim borrowed from jazz saxophone to reshape rap flow on Paid in FullEric B. & Rakim's first track together was also their debut singleEric B. & Rakim's Paid in Full dropped July 7, 1987Eric B. & Rakim recorded Paid in Full at Marley Marl's home studioSugar Hill Records said yes to Grandmaster Flash's record-with-records concept — and even Flash was surprisedExploreAtari Teenage Riot's early work was released on Digital Hardcore RecordingsAutechre's Confield was released on Warp Records in 2001Buena Vista Social Club was released on World Circuit Records in 1997Depeche Mode's Violator came out on Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the USDuke Ellington & John Coltrane was released on Impulse! Records in 1963Previous Paul Desmond wrote 'Take Five,' not Dave BrubeckNext Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come was cut in one day