Old heads: how did people react when epmd broke up

[R-Typ3]

took it hard bro. Epmd was at the top of their game with crossover and then headbanger. The whole hit squad Das efx and Redman was just getting started. I will say this though. that breakup i took personally. I dont think i gave Eric sermon first solo album a chance. I hated that song stay real but loved hitting switches. Same with the geto boys. and a lot of people will say that album with Big Mike is one of their best. But honestly, i never gave it a chance like i should have.

If u go back to that Convicts album with 3-2 you'll see what Big Mike brought to that GB album and wonder how the fukk people slept on that dude..

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Reps get disabled and nikkas say anything

 

[Wacky D]

EPMD is only relevant to eastcoast nikkas. Hot Boyz were better and had bigger impact

while the bolded is correct, I cram to understand what the hot boys have to do with this.

is this a layover argument from another thread?

 

[General Mills]

EPMD is only relevant to eastcoast nikkas. Hot Boyz were better and had bigger impact

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Hot Boyz still having mixtapes and songs named after them..nikkas using their production style in 2016. EPMD influence nowhere to be found

Everything you posted sucks. The Hot Boys were bigger Ill give you that but for a very short amount of time. EPMD left footprints in the game especially production wise. EPMD were no lyricists but they weren't any worse than the Hot Boys

 

[tuckgod]

Reps get disabled and nikkas say anything

I thought I committed some colicrime and had my reps disabled

 

[Wacky D]

Everything you posted sucks. The Hot Boys were bigger Ill give you that but for a very short amount of time. EPMD left footprints in the game especially production wise. EPMD were no lyricists but they weren't any worse than the Hot Boys

everybody in the hot boys was poppin for over a decade, except turk - who went to prison.

I'm not down with dude downplaying EPMD, but I understand that the reason hes doing this is because you dudes with posts like this.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

everybody in the hot boys was poppin for over a decade, except turk - who went to prison.

I'm not down with dude downplaying EPMD, but I understand that the reason hes doing this is because you dudes with posts like this.

BG was popping for a decade?

And Erick Sermon was still a top producer all the way into the 2000s. Matter fact he was underrated

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

EPMD is only relevant to eastcoast nikkas. Hot Boyz were better and had bigger impact

You tripping, I'm west coast and a bit too young to have rocked with EPMD when they had their original run, but when I went back to revisit them, they're easily a top 5 hip hop group - atcq, bone, kast, epmd, tie between dog pound and mob deep

 

[Wacky D]

BG was popping for a decade?

And Erick Sermon was still a top producer all the way into the 2000s. Matter fact he was underrated

lol. you dudes don't follow anything but east coast rap. you never heard of the "heart of the streetz" series? and the stuff with dj drama? that stuff spans over a decade past his debut.

and you must have me confused. I'm not in here arguing against EPMD, so I don't know what that eric sermon comment was for.
but I wouldn't compare producers to rappers. nor do I like comparing '80s rappers longevity to dudes who blew up after the mid '90s. BG has an unfair advantage in that.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

lol. you dudes don't follow anything but east coast rap. you never heard of the "heart of the streetz" series? and the stuff with dj drama? that stuff spans over a decade past his debut.

and you must have me confused. I'm not in here arguing against EPMD, so I don't know what that eric sermon comment was for.
but I wouldn't compare producers to rappers. nor do I like comparing '80s rappers longevity to dudes who blew up after the mid '90s. BG has an unfair advantage in that.

I remember BG trying his hardest to stay relevant

 

[wizworld]

I know what happened but how did the fans feel about the break up back then..They broke up after their best album

Pete had stockpiled so many fire remixes & outside production credits by that time. There wasn't a huge uproar about it.... I mean there was like sixteen 4 minute plus songs on each PR & CL album. Then you have the soundtrack cuts, remixes + the EP. 40 Pete Rock & CL Smooth songs is enough to last a lifetime lol.

To tell the truth I ALWAYS felt like they were overrated by the circles I ran in. CL Smooth is cool but he didn't bring that much to the table. It was all about Pete's beats. People try to run this same argument with Gangstarr, but it doesn't work. When Gangstarr was hot for the first few albums, Guru was THAT NYGGA. Premier didn't become the star of the group until the "Hard To Earn" era. Baldhead Slick always had a star quality about him. That's how he was able to pull off the whole Jazzmatazz wave.

 

[Wacky D]

I remember BG trying his hardest to stay relevant

SMH. just admit you don't follow southern rap. this goes back to what I said about the disregard that yall show towards other regions. hence, the reason why dude came in this thread dissin EPMD.

BG was putting out popular albums and was doing it independent.

just because he wasn't all over the tube with a big machine behind him, it doesn't me he was struggling. and guys like BG don't care about all that anyway. they want the money.

 

[dish lowry]

Crossover, They Want Efx, Redman- blow your mind, and K Solo- i cant hold it back all came out around that summer...and all of a sudden it was over

I remember when mtv news announced eric b & rakim split up. the last thing they did was the movie Gunmen which was a flop

 

[Newportbox]

It's always the same few posters who never turn down an opportunity to put their feelings of regional inferiority on blast.