Parrish: “My life story I tell straight from the heart There goes one blast him now (E, hold up)īecause it might be too late, the punk might escapeĪnd I’ma catch a bullshit charge, plus trial” Pass the uzis to blow up, any wack MC that show up Watch your weak posse, before they get smacked up I’m roastin, bakin MC’s, the E I’m not jokin Words just won’t do it justice, but here’s a little sample of the flav’ anyway:Įrick: “It’s the E and I’m smokin wild like Tone-Loc The frentic energy of “I’m Mad” was like a call to arms – a backdrop that sounded like a heart monitor with hip-hop attitude and rhythm, DJ Scratch going absolutely nuts on the 1’s and 2’s between verses, and even the sometimes slow-flowing Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith sounding positively AMPED UP. It’s incredible how right from the first track EPMD was hitting home runs straight out the ballpark. I’m not even going to pretend to be unbiased about this one because SIXTEEN MOTHERFUCKING YEARS LATER I still love this album. I’m sure that’s $3-$5 less than I spent on the tape but believe me when I say this album is a bargain at ANY price. For reasons I can’t even begin to fathom I left a Half Price Books price sticker on the cover, which duly notes I picked up this version for $6.99. Somewhere along the line I must have traded in that tape for a CD, because I went through my collection and pulled this one out of the “all EPMD related albums” case, which technically ought to be much larger than it is now since I didn’t include Das EFX or K-Solo. Rap, N.W.A and the Geto Boys were probably the only ones who could break that log jam. If it wasn’t LL Cool J it was Slick Rick. If it wasn’t Public Enemy it was LL Cool J. Thinking back now that whole year might have just been DEF to the motherfuckin JAM. ![]() In fact my biggest goal at the time was to get a removable tape deck for my piece of shit car, precisely so I COULD listen to tapes like EPMD’s “Business as Usual” when I drove the ten miles to and from school each day (that’s rural life for ya). In those days people still bought cassettes instead of CD’s, because CD players and compact discs were still far more expensive than tape decks. The year was 1990 – I wasn’t even graduating high school for another three years yet. For me EPMD’s “Business as Usual” was LOCKED IN for all of those reasons and more. No one can really say why it happens – you were at a certain age and very impressionable, among good albums in a given year it was by far the best, or you just listened to it over and over so much you can recite every word and hear every note in your head without even having to play it. Some albums are LOCKED IN from the very first time you hear them.
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