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Strictly Business

by EPMD

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Album review

Imagine a time in history when artists didn't have to clear any samples in their music. EPMD's 1988 debut, Strictly Business, like the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, was recorded during the clearance-free sample heyday, and we're all a lot better off because of it. Long before Dr. Dre and Digital Underground were doling out legal cash to George Clinton and Kool and the Gang, EPMD was sampling them--and others--brilliantly on tracks like "You Gots to Chill" and "It's My Thing." (They even double-sample "Jungle Boogie," using it on both "You Gots to Chill" and "You're the Customer"--that takes some damn nerve.) The EPMD production sound gets in your pants and moves things against your will, making Strictly Business an essential time capsule from the Wild West-era of sampling. --Todd Levin


About the artist

EPMD is an American hip-hop music group from Brentwood, New York, active from 1987 to 1999, reuniting in 2006 and currently working an album to be released in 2007; one of the prominent acts in East coast hip hop. The group's name is an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars", referencing its members: rappers Erick Sermon ("E Double") and...

Track list

  1. Strictly Business - EPMD, EPMD
  2. I'm Housin' - EPMD, EPMD
  3. Let the Funk Flow - EPMD, Sermon, Erick
  4. You Gots to Chill - EPMD, Sermon, Erick
  5. It's My Thang - EPMD, Moon, A.
  6. You're a Customer - EPMD, EPMD
  7. The Steve Martin - EPMD,
  8. Get off the Bandwagon - EPMD, Sermon
  9. D.J. K la Boss - EPMD,
  10. Jane - EPMD, Sermon, Erick