Song · Eric B & Rakim
“I Know You Got Soul” by Eric B & Rakim
From the album Paid in Full (1987)
“I Know You Got Soul” by Eric B & Rakim appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1987. It was first released in 1987 on the album Paid in Full. Its best result is #36 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1987. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #219 alternative song of 1987.
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Eric B. & Rakim cut "I Know You Got Soul" in 1987 and sent it out on 4th & B'way as the third single from Paid in Full. The title comes straight from Bobby Byrd's 1971 record of the same name, which the pair sample heavily, and the beat also grabs a Ben Powers Jr. drum intro from "You'll Like It Too", a track issued on LAX under the Funkadelic name. It often gets the credit for making James Brown samples a hip-hop fashion.
They wrote and produced it themselves, with Patrick Adams and Elai Tubo engineering, and the track is a clatter of computerized cymbal crashes, breathing noises and a bass line with bounce. Rolling Stone later placed it 23rd among its 50 greatest hip-hop songs and 396th in its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 36 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1987 | 50 |
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