![]() ![]() ![]() Eric B And Rakim Gold Zip AlbumĢ0th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection contained 11 tracks, shortchanging anyone who wanted more than the most-known classics. The most regrettable track that suffers the ill fate (not ill meaning good but ill meaning bad) is 'Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em': the 'Clean UPSO Mix' is no match for the devastating original, an under-recognized touchstone for the RZA's early production work, with suffocating breakbeat pressure, funk guitar licks worthy of Public Enemy, and pulse-raising keyboard trills. Alternate and extended mixes, along with a stray radio edit and a couple inexplicable clean versions, when added up, are more numerous than original mixes - so that means hardcore fans will benefit most, right? Well, not if they gobbled up all of the alternates through the various editions of Paid in Full and Follow the Leader. ![]() ![]() (The bonus disc that came with early copies of Rakim's The 18th Letter, which did a better job than either release, doesn't really count, since it was rather limited and not a separate entity.) Gold, a double-disc package, bills itself as being definitive, but it's far from it. And then there was Classic, a European set so numbskulled that it depicted Eric B. ![]()
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