EPMD - So Whatcha Sayin'
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- From 1989 Album: "Unfinished Business".....
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EPMD is an American hip hop group from Brentwood, New York. The group's name is a concatenation of the members' name "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars" (later "Erick and Parrish Millennium Ducats"), referencing its members, emcees Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith ("PMD"). The group has been active for more than 20 years (1986present), and is one of the most prominent acts in East coast hip hop. Diamond J, DJ K La Boss, and DJ Scratch were DJs for the group.
The word "business" is used in every title of the group's albums. Every album also has a track titled "Jane".
EPMD's first album, Strictly Business, appeared in 1988, which featured the underground hit "Strictly Business," based on a sample of Eric Clapton's version of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff." Many critics cite this first album as the group's most influential.[citation needed] The group's brand of funk-fueled sample-heavy hip-hop proved to be a major force in the genre. Unlike old school hip hop, which was originally based on disco hits but eventually became more electronic, EPMD based its music mainly on lifting funk and rock breaks for samples and helped to popularize their usage, along with Marley Marl and Public Enemy. "You're a Customer" combined snippets of Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle," Kool & the Gang's "Jungle Boogie," and the bass line from ZZ Tops "Cheap Sunglasses." "Jane," about a romantic rendezvous turned bad, would be revisited on no less than five sequels; a first for hip-hop, and, perhaps, rock and roll as well. "You Gots to Chill" used 1980s funk band Zapp's "More Bounce to the Ounce," which has become one of the most enduring sample sources for hip-hop. "I'm Housin'" was covered some 12 years later by Rage Against the Machine. Managed early on by Russell Simmons' RUSH Management, the group toured with such hip-hop luminaries as Run-DMC, Public Enemy, and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince.
Promotional EPMD t-shirt for their 1990 Business As Usual album
EPMD signed with Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records, which eventually released its debut album, Strictly Business, by electro funk pioneer Kurtis Mantronik. Propelled by several strong singles ("You Gots to Chill" and the albums title track), the album was eventually certified gold, selling over 500,000 copies[citation needed], as did 1989's follow-up, Unfinished Business. Financial frustrations followed when Sleeping Bag went under in 1992. The two EPMD albums and Nice & Smooths debut album were acquired by Priority/EMI Records before the label was sold to Warlock Records. The duos Sleeping Bag contract was acquired by Def Jam. EPMD returned in 1990 with Business As Usual and Business Never Personal two years later. By 1992, the group presided over an extended family dubbed the Hit Squad, which included Redman, K-Solo, Das EFX, Hurricane G, and Knucklehedz.
In 1992, EPMD had a hit with its song "Crossover," which lamented rappers making blatant concessions to pop sensibilities in order to get mainstream attention from music audiences.[1] Ironically, the song became a crossover hit itself peaking at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in doing so becoming their biggest hit to date.
The duo split in January 1993, under controversial circumstances. According to interviews in The Source and Rap Pages, in late 1991, Smith's house was burglarized by armed intruders. According to Smith, in the ensuing police investigation, one of the apprehended culprits supposedly gave up Sermon's name as having allegedly paid them to do it. Sermon was arrested and briefly detained for questioning, but no charges were filed. Still, it led to lingering tensions, and by the time of the break-up, Sermon alleged financial impropriety on Smith's part. The duo found itself as solo artists by default: Sermon debuted in 1993 with No Pressure, followed by Double or Nothing (1995), Def Squad Presents Erick Onasis (2000), Music (2001), and React (2002). Smith made his statements on 1994's Shade Business, followed by Business is Business in 1996.
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I still bump this in 2024, much respect to EPMD!!!
Absofuckinglutely
This is timeless..
It's great reading comments from 2024 from those of us who were around when this dropped. It's STILL up there as one of the best tunes in hip hop.
🎯
One of the dopest beats in hip hop history!!!
The Beat is Pure FUNK.
No doubt.
Don't forget the B.T. Express sampled guitar riff from "If It Don't Turn You On, You Oughta Leave It Alone."
Yep
Indeed. this is my era. Im here head bobbing 👏👏👏👏
"I'm known to be the master in the M.C. field, No respect in 87, 88 you kneel".........Classic.
"because I produce an get loose"
Puttin heads to bed....straight out the box. MCs are jumpin out shoes and socks! 🔥🔥
Dammit! I just wrote that this might be the hardest verse in the whole song before seeing your comment!😂😂
classic line!!!!!
Parrish was clearly the better M.C. His bars were significantly doper than E-Double's.
EPMD tracks were so hard. I'll bump EPMD all day.
The song combines two great things...EPMD and the Parliament sample!!! My daddy and I could both appreciate this song from two different ages and perspectives.
Word Dorsey Jackson!
Yo!!
Hardest niggas in the game
I fill you, EMPD is one of the greatest rap group back in the day
This beat is INSANE!!!!!
hype music!
Dj Scratch was the addition they needed. EPMD one of the best.
Oh yes bro , Cube knew it , he used it on his hit “Jackin fo beats
One of the dopest beats in Hip Hop History. I think it's in my Top 5 list.
This beat iz 🍌
I was 15-16 when this came out .I'm 49 still loyal to real rap. This will always be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Indeed ! this and LL' - Boomin System.....👌
I'm 51 and hearing this for the first time in 1989 on the unfinished business cassette tape. It still hits just as hard now.
They are GOOD yes, but they can’t do much versus Public Enemy, NWA, Ice T, Run DMC
@@zagorthegreat can we agree to disagree?
@@TopGunAce23
We agree of course
This Track is STILL Knockin' after 25 Years!!!!
Better believe it!
LaDone Waller aint it though.real rap
Bass hittin hard on this jam.
DJ Scratch is the best DJ scratcing a record point, blank, period.
Knockin for real
Bought this CASSETTE in 1989 when I was 13. Still banging it today. Beat is unbelievable!!!
The cassette's still in his collection! With the epmd logo!
I’m a yougin, this song been on repeat for the last couple of months
2022 and still some of the dopest beats and lyrics everrrrrrr
🔥🔥🔥
Still in 2024, shout out from the Carribean
im so proud to say this was my era in hip hop.
Generation X, throw up your hands
I hear ya there, nothing like those days, EVERYTHING was dope, real rhymes, real creativity, real imagination, real shit...
Brad Jones me too family
Ditto, bruh!
No joke
over 20 yrs old and STILL sounds better than most of the crap out today! Bring back REAL hip-hop!
+Stephanie Brown I agree, and would say more than 90% of today's crap!
+Stephanie Brown think nwa might have changed the direction of hip hop ...
true
+Jody Clarke Yes!!! NWA changed the direction of Hip Hop because NWA was created to silence the conscious Hip Hop movement.
+Stephanie Brown Most? I would say ALL.
I cannot count how many iconic sounds EPMD produced.
I still wear EPMD hats!
It's 2024 and I still listen to 80s and 90s hip-hop🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
My high school years! Back in the days when all the these rappers and rap groups had their own style and originality!!
EPMD Recognise the debt they owe to the musicians of BT express and Funkadelic.
EXACTLY!!! Why don't people express more desire for this type of creativity?
1992
1989😆
EPMD really sounded like they had to shut everybody up. This was the perfect lead single for Unfinished Business.
I agree. This is how you're supposed 2 come with it. The energy is still fresh. This was before my time, so my comment can't be biased can it???
This is when beats were made with limitations. The passion of the mix of instruments and samples and the eloquentness of the rhyme. You can't get this sound today in 2024 no matter how hard they may try.
P was very underrated as a lyricist!!
This beat is SO FIRE!!!
🔥
Parish Smith one of the most underrated MCs of this era
He is not that nice Eric carried him because of the beats.
@@tezzingtonsir28 Eric definitely the better rapper but Parrish was perfect complement.
Long as my man's alive I plan on taking them higher maybe I can give em the rights the mask cause I only trust a few with Zev Luv X from KMD! I'll go ahead and say easy top 3 rap groups of all time EPMD!!! No brainier 🎶🎶🎶
I think P was better flower, E was just the mistro beatmaker !
P's solo album was trash 🗑 he was the perfect compliment to E Double!!
Brings me back to 88-89. White kid falling in love with hip hop. I’d stop whatever sport I was playing after school to get home at 4:30 to watch Yo!! EPMD became one of my fav groups of all time. This joint being one of the best hip hop songs ever. I’m 44 will rock this shit until I’m 85.
DJ Scratch is a Fucking ANIMAL!!!
This was his official first song with EPMD too
he ain't a joke wit it. cold ass hell
a beast one if the sickest DJs
scratch always killed it
Sykopath BnG dope ass DJ also DJ premiere and terminator x.
Every head I know acts like they can do the scratches 😂😂😂😂Classic
This song was the best idea for a single on a followup album. Brilliant.
Major facts
The best duo of all time no one comes close
They were my number 1… but there’s a little duo outta queens that took that title for me around the early 2000’s you might’ve heard them. Mobb Deep?🤷🏽♂️
My dads favorite rap duo. RIP to him. Listen to this when I think of him.
Rest In Perfection to your dad🕊🕯
My brother dress style back in 89 just like epmd
RIP 🕊️. He had good taste. EPMD timeless.
This classic should be at a million views already!
Yea 2.1 million now and still hasn't received enough views :/
This is one of my favorite rap songs of all time and EPMD is my favorite rap duo of all time.
This beat is Off The HOOK!!!
Up there with Shook ones part II
Dropped the Album strictly business and you thought we would fold, 30 days later the LP went GOLD, So Wat cha sayin’
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yess!!!!!! Lyrics was🔥
"The proof is in the pudding, yo, check the BILLBOARD 😁🔥
Nig I ain sayna damtheen
Classic lyric.
This is a Rakim diss
People would never know they was dissing Rakim with that line
Damn don't we all miss the 80s and 90s. These dudes were so underrated. By far one of hardest beats out back then. Strictly Business album bumped from start to finish
Back in the day
This joint in a Jeep w/a banging system, riding up and down the NY streets of all boroughs will have everybody head nodding to this ✊🏿 #HipHopClassic
One of the hardest beats ever....EVER!
No hip hop today can touch epmd public enemy wu tang
🔥🔥🔥
One of the doppest beats ever! Ice Cube jacked this beat in "Jackin for Beats"
Years later still banging more than this space rap we have out here today
Cube liked it so much, he did it again...
that Luther Vandross impersonation was beautiful 😂😂
And tht smile afterwards...like yeah I ripped tht. No , no u didn't but loved it anyway.
Funny 😀 but that's Erick Sermon (the comic relief) for you.
Smooth brothers
Took rap to a new level. I still rock these brothers. True hip hop rap.
Loved watching MTV raps.
Sure don't make music like this anymore
One of the greatest beats in history!
This 🔥🔥🔥🔥 track came out deadass like 33 years ago June 1989, STILL SO DOPE, ASFK!!!!
Test of a classic tune is that it stands the test of time you could still drop this tune still anytime anywhere don't sound dated.
👍👍👍
+Peter West
Word !!! Timeless !!!
facts
lol. nah it's definitely dated. that tune at 3:16 loooool
Word!
No matter what mood im in, i can listen to this all day every day.
I still bump this in 2022. One of my favorite songs by EPMD
This beat will still be playing way pass 2030
Turn it up!!!!!!
At 3:18 Eric Sermon's impression of Luther Vandross. Very funny. This was the old school hip-hop. Classic.
Russell Adams You can tell he lol'd at the end of that take 😂
realize this era is the time of Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson & Mike Tyson.. dope 80 - 90's
🎉😊❤😊 Yesss , Mike and Mike, and oh yes Mike😊❤🎉❤
I played this every morning before school.
Thanks
Now this was real hip hop!! Salute EPMD!!💯
This is the real shit! From 88' til about 2000ish Hip Hop was at it's peak. It's been down hill ever since. I'll give Kindrick Lemar a little love when it come to mainstream but now all real Hip Hop is underground. Seek and you shall find turn off the radio and dig in the crates and you find Hip Hop is still alive and it is there for those who seek it.
righteous bro , in da crates always
Kenny Abernathy true bro plenty of great music that lots of people have never heard
Kenny Abernathy Exactly, everyone today is always saying hip hop is dead. Its just unknown and underappreciated. Sift through the garbage and you can find gold.
I’ll give you the time frame except I believe it was from ‘86/‘87 through 2000ish. Once Rakim hit the scene, things changed forever. He’s like Jordan and changed the game forever. And while others (LeBron, etc.) emulate and can be argued as better, he is the pioneer and architect that changed the way the game was forever played.
The only "hook" in history which is nearly only plain scratches. 🔥🔥🔥
Gangstarr's Code of the Streets is a good example as well
@@JuniorPolancoLaCoalicion Yes Sir!!! And "Can you han.. handl... handle the whole weight?"
@@leonardkimble5525 that is one track I can never get enough of.
More greatness from the Golden Age of Hip Hop (1987 - ~1997)!!! Nothing (mainstream) today would have been successful back then.....
"Brothers on my jock for the way I hold a piece of steel." HOT
Greatest concert ever 1988, Sacramento, CA.
EPMD
Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Public Enemy
Run DMC
You'll never ever see anything like that again.
Cali Livin That east coast rap at the time baby...!
Cali Livin The line-up alone is legendary!
Cali Livin Don't forget Austin Texas
Runs House Tour
HATE I wasn't there.....#fknLIVE
Without a doubt this is the song that made me want to make beats!
Same here
My dude on the wheels was on another level .
That part at 4:05 to the end....My Lord!!! Still hitting in the summer of 2022!!
Yep DJ Scratch went crazy 🔥
This beat still #1 and I enjoy it every time I listen to it pure true classic
25 years old and sounds better than ANY of that shit out there today.
FACE
Big up SCSU!!!!!!!!!!
They just don't get it, we had love in our hearts today they dont know what love is.
Big facts real rap music
The shit that's been coming out since the 2000s is audio syphilis
NAILED IT even 5 years later!
You nailed that brother
Scratch displayed the most memorable skills in hip-hop music.
DJ Premier called this beat one of his 5 favorite.
He actually mimicked it for the Group Home in "Supa Star". I noticed it way back when it came out.
really? i agree. this beat is your favorite beatmakers favorite beat! it's amazing
DJ Premo got like 30 hot joints LOL I don't know which one is top, but DJ Scratch killed the scratches!!!
True
rahim4411 pretty sure he rates mass apeal as his favourite
This was when EPMD was the hottest group out! Everything they put out back then was a hit! Erick Sermon never really got his props as a producer but, Das Efx, Keith Murray, Redman and many others have him to thank... As we all do....
YES
Das Rolled with PMD
Everything that came out in those times was so uniquely Fresh and Dope... EPMD had everybody wanting/wearing bucket hats
I heard this on the radio while I was driving today . Man it felt so good to hear it again. Wish I could go back in time, even for a little while. ✌
Trouble is you couldnt tell people much about the future because they would think you were completely insane, none of them would believe anything you told them.
DJ Scratch is a beast
Yepppppppp!!!!!!!!
Top 5 ever 4 sure
"Preach brother, preach"
Say less!💪🏽💯
Thank you
A masterpiece ❤️😁
This is what I grew up with not this mumble rapper hip hop music today
This is a top 10 all time hip hop beat, and if you don't get it, you have a lot to learn.
these brothers so dope i had to play their songs over again
The boys banged this jam all over the neighborhood back in the day
i love it!! EPMD!!! so whatchu sayin!?
Hip Hop is so polished now a days. It was great to grow up and listen to it when it was in it's infancy and technology wasn't as sophisticated as it is now.
Corey Cavalier
This was before sound compression took over engineering schools;becoming the industry standard.
Corey Cavalier you have to love that crunchy mpc sound though
Corey Cavalier it may be overly produced and engineered today but lyrically it's incredibly dumbed down and to a great extent is trance inducing chanting. It's truly a shame.
Corey Cavalier The american blacks traded their rhythm for the dollar. The natural rhythm holds the key to the higher levels of creativity. The rhythm in the music now has a different effect on the psyche.
Corey Cavalier Sorry young cats.. I don't see Hip Hop of today as sophisticated at all. Music is programmed, and lyrics are written on the 3rd grade level.... I see it as unsophisticated.
EpMD Hardest Hardcore Rap Duo. The Golden ERA of HipHop, never thought the artform would evolve into what it is today, no more backup dancers, everyone has ghost writers, Cat in Hat rappers and kids rapping like they're from different regions.
This my era. When music videos were movies.
This beat was truely ahead of its time. Dat drums man.... shit is bananas
its literally amazing that this song actually came out as the opener for the 2nd album.... as good as strictly business was tou would think it couldnt be topped
i dont think any rap group in history destroyed the sophomore jinx this easily
"well I'm known to be the master in the M.C. field, no respect in 87"
20+years later still one of the best rap songs. Left a lasting impression on a 10 y.o girl.
1989
1999=10 year
2009=20years
2019=30years
2024=35 years
Wym 20+ years?
This song is damn near 40 years old
26 years still Banging.... 🔥🔥
this is that real classic rap music. so cleeeaaannnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So what he's saying is that sometimes he'll drink a beer, but sometimes he's happy with just a coke. That's moderation. Classic.
I actually had to hear this several times and I haven't done that in over a 15 years.
Long Island’s Greatest !!!!
One of the best hip hop tracks ever. Yup.
Back in the days Respect. Party till dawn. I was a real B Girl with my big ear rings lol. 🇨🇦 🇯🇲 every summer we travel to Brooklyn. Good ole days
Sophomore year of high school. This video was the talk of the class.
one of the DOPEST BEATS of all time...just sayin'...
+Sean Burke No doubt !!! No need to justify the straight truth!
+Sean Burke Whatcu talkin' bout Sean??? ehr, uhm I mean... So Whatcha Sayin??
EPMD music iz timeless !
growing up on long island I couldn't believe such magic came from nextdoor
Strong Island!!
@@tezzingtonsir28 “Where I got Em wiylin”
I’m so BLESSED that I was part of this GENERATION OF REAL HIP HOP IN THE 90’s back in High School in NYC. Poor Kids of 2021 thinking today’s music is Hip Hop. Such a SHAME! We had the REAL DEAL IN THE 90’s!!!
This is the late 80s lol
Nostalgic 👌🏾
Has to be one of the hardest boom bap bangers ever produced by the legendary Mr Sermon!!! Give me 80s n 90s Hip Hop over today's garbage ANYDAY :)
Same here!!
Facts💯
Sure u right 😁
Top 5 song of the late 80's
I met Erick last year - a real nice guy. Love it when legends live up to the mantle
top 5 greatest song ever!
No doubt
+Davito Brigante Hell Yeah!!
So whut u sayin????
Davito Brigante illest track out of Long Island EVER!
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I play this til this day. this song made me fall in love with Hip Hop. love EPMD
One my favorite songs of all-time.
EPMD is one of the hip hop reasons why hip hop is here to stay between night and day obliviously one of the best hip hop groups who helped put the icing on the cake in the hip hop world 🌎 more power to EPMD and some I was 14 and used to listen to this song almost every day after school and now at 45 it never gets old the lyrics are off the chain and then some
The true Dynamic duo going for theirs
Classic of all times😎🎤🔥🔥🔥
Still got the original cassette tape to this...I blew out plenty speakers to this DOPE joint!!!
"...30 yrs later, the lp still gold".
People don't realize, that when this came out, it was light years ahead of it's time 🗽🗽🗽🗽