Universal Music Group is a part of MCA Records and owns Interscope Records which is the parent of Aftermath and Geffen Records , which manages the MCA Records catalog , to which Eric B . & Rakim belong .
Ownership of the duo 's catalog consolidated in 1999 , when PolyGram ( which owned Island Records , which released Paid in Full ) merged with Universal Music Group , an outgrowth of MCA Records , which owned the rest of the duo 's albums ( UMG also owns Interscope Records , parent of Aftermath and Geffen Records , the latter of which now manages the MCA Records catalog ) .
Eric B. & Rakim