#61 Eric B. and Rakim, 'Paid in Full' (1987)

Eric B. and Rakim’s ‘Paid In Full’ was the album that a lot of Hip Hop post-1987 was based on. Firstly, it was the album that pioneered the use of internal rhyming in Hip Hop, but secondly, and most importantly, it was the record to introduce the use of heavy sampling in Hip Hop making Eric B. and Rakim pioneers in Hip Hop production, masters of turntablism and Kings of the rhyme.