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“I Know You Got Soul” is a song recorded by Eric B. & Rakim. It was released as the third single from their 1987 album Paid in Full. It peaked at number thirty-nine on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, number thirty-four on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, and number sixty-four on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. The track’s production contains “digitized cymbal crashes, breathing sounds, and a bumping bass line.“ It takes its name from a 1971 song of the same title recorded by Bobby Byrd which it prominently samples, and is frequently credited with popularizing the use of James Brown samples in hip hop songs. The song ranks #386 in Rolling Stone’s 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time. The British band S sampled the title lyric of... Read on...