Still ahead of it's time
I'm pretty sure this is the first recorded version of the line:"I used to be a stick-up kid/So I think of all the devious things I did"This bass line and lyric have been plagiarised, ripped off, sampled, copied and generally recycled by pretty much everyone that came after this complete work of genius. This sounds like nothing that ever came before it but everyone after it's release started to copy these songs.Paid In Full is kind of like the hip-hop equal of Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island. Every bass player on the planet started learning the bass lines on Paid In Full just like every piano player started learning all the piano parts on Empyrean Isles.