Don't Sweat the Technique

by Eric B. & Rakim

Don't Sweat the Technique cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 June 1992
  • Label: MCA
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:42
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Eric B.

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The final studio album from the influential hip-hop duo before their prolonged hiatus leans heavily into jazz-inflected boom-bap production. Rakim's famously intricate, multi-syllabic rhyme schemes tackle increasingly conscious and political themes over Eric B.'s stripped-down, breakbeat-driven instrumentals.

Genres

Descriptors: conscious, sampling, technical, minimalistic

Tracklist

  1. Don't Sweat The Technique (Funky Ginger Club Version) (8:16)
  2. Don't Sweat The Technique (Funky Ginger Radio Edit) (5:07)
  3. Don't Sweat The Technique (UK Flavor Club Version) (6:51)
  4. Don't Sweat The Technique (UK Flavor Single Edit) (4:40)
  5. Don't Sweat The Technique (Album Version) (4:19)
  6. Don't Sweat The Technique (Dub) (3:29)

Credits

  • Gary Barnacle - saxophone [uncredited]

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