Amoeba Music

By Eric Brightwell

Listen to most hip-hop from its infancy and the most noticeable thing is how different it sounds from what dominates the radio today.  Truly old school hip-hop usually took a simple disco sample and then tossed on some beat-bound, playground-silly rapping about parties – punctuated with liberal scatting that suggested the MC wasn’t particularly bothered with making a statement. Nothing wrong with that, mind you, but hip hop was, with a few notable exceptions, light fare. All that changed with the arrival of a scowling duo that, with their arrival on the scene, triggered a seismic shift that irrevocably changed the game.

Eric B (born Louis Eric Barrier in 1965) was born... Read More

Genre:

Hip Hop, East Coast

City Of Origin:

New York, ,New York United States

Formed Date:

1985