Was Eric B stealing all those production credits hip hop? Shout out Paul C and large Professor for not making him look like a fool. Or is it just MC's who have to follow this make belief honor code?
Bro, how can you sit there and bring up greats like Eric B to defend Drake? That's wild, lol.
Quick point though. How many times have you ever heard Eric B speak a day in your life? How many times has Eric B said mad times that he's the GOAT producer? How many times has Eric B been accused of stealing credits and fought against it?
Marley Marl and Large Pro both spoke on those issues from back then. The word is that a lot of those songs were done by committee. Paul C was there too. Couple different people bringing whatever to the table to make those beats on the first three albums. Eric B doesn't do mad interviews. But everyone said that Eric would bring in breakbeats and samples and have people loop or chop whatever he saw as the vision for the group. That's
producing. Rakim always speaks on that too. So he was in there working. The credits left out other contributors, but Eric B never claimed to be some great producer. He's a DJ who found records, and would hire people to do what he couldn't on the machines. He never lied about that.
What we're speaking about is the art of MCing. Very very different.