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Strictly Business

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PLAY 1 Strictly Business
PLAY QUEUE 2 I'm Housin'		save
PLAY 3 Let The Funk Flow
PLAY 4 You Gots To Chill
PLAY 5 It's My Thing
PLAY 6 You're A Customer
PLAY QUEUE 7 The Steve Martin		save
PLAY 8 Get Off The Bandwagon
PLAY QUEUE 9 D.J. K La Boss		save
PLAY 10 Jane

MOG Editorial Review

At a time when sampling was just starting to become the norm in hip-hop, few did as as EPMD's 1988 debut, Strictly Business. Rather than subtly employ a sample, duo Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith cut out the middleman and made famous samples and choruses their centerpiece, turning famous hooks by Bob Marley ("Strictly Business"), fellow sample lovers the Beastie Boys ("Let the Funk Flow") and Kool & The Gang ("You're a Customer") into something of their own. Working as the backbone for their beats, these famous words took on new context as the duo told tales of chasing girls and life on the streets, and it's something that emcees still try their hand at, but none can do it better than this old-school pair.
AMG Review of Strictly Business

John Bush
All Music Guide

EPMD's blueprint for East Coast rap wasn't startlingly different from many others in rap's golden age, but the results were simply amazing, a killer blend of good groove and laid-back flow, plus a populist sense of sampling that had heads nodding from the first listen (and revealed tastes that, like Prince Paul's, tended toward AOR as much as classic soul and funk). A pair from Long Island, EPMD weren't real-life hardcore rappers -- it's hard to believe the same voice who talks of spraying a crowd on one track could be name-checking the Hardy Boys later on -- but their no-nonsense, monotoned delivery brooked no arguments. With their album debut, Strictly Business, Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith really turned rapping on its head; instead of simple lyrics delivered with a hyped, theatrical tone, they dropped the dopest rhymes as though they spoke them all the time. Their debut single, "You Gots to Chill," was a perfect example of the EPMD revolution; two obvious samples, Zapp's "More Bounce to the Ounce" and Kool & the Gang's "Jungle Boogie," doing battle over a high-rolling beat, with the fluid, collaborative raps of Sermon and Smith tying everything together with a mastery that made it all seem deceptively simple. There was really only one theme at work here -- the brilliancy of EPMD, or the worthlessness of sucker MCs -- but every note of Strictly Business proved their claims.