No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: EPMD Title: STRICTLY BUSINESS Street Release Date: 12/10/1990 Domestic Genre: RAP/HIP HOP
Back in Business Music Artist : Epmd Music Label : Fontana Def Jam Release Date : 1997-09-23 Artistopia's Price :$17.59
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NOTE: This limited-edition version of Out of Business comes with a second CD of EPMD's greatest hits. Call EPMD old, but call them consistent. EPMD's Out of Business is rather like their previous effort, Back in Business--agreeable, accessible, but deathly unexciting. EPMD can always be depended upon to put out albums with a string of cool club hits and mild filler--they invented that formula on both Back and Out. But at this point in their career, EPMD's LPs feel weighted down by their molasses pacing and rhyme-by-numbers lyrics (basically, the same styled verbals EPMD's been kicking for over a decade now). They find brief moments of fire on tracks like "You Got Shot" (blazing with its hook taken from Ol' Dirty Bastard) and "Jane 6," which thumps with surprising force thanks to its reworked "Tramp" sample. Nevertheless, even "Symphony 2000," with cameos from MOP, Redman, and Method Man feels flat, indicative of Out of Business as a whole. They might still be old-school masters, clocking millennium ducats, but long-time fans may not feel paid in full. --Oliver Wang
