Why is EPMDs influence on Hip Hop so slept on?

[smokeurobinson]

EPMD - Strictly Business 1988 > Warren G - I Shot The Sheriff 1997

EPMD - Let It Flow 1988 > Nas - Nastradamus 1999

EPMD - You Gots To Chill 1988 > Every West Coast rapper who tried to freak it afterwards. Ice Cube, South Central Cartel and Biggie included.

EPMD - Its My Thang 1988 = Jay Z - Aint No nikka 1996/ Dru Down - Pimp Of The Year 1994

EPMD - You're A Customer 1988 = Jodeci - Come And Talk To Me Remix 1992/
Jagged Edge/fabolous- I Really Wanna Know You 2006

EPMD - So What You Saying 1989 > Beanie Sigel So What You Saying 2001 , Dr Dre - Stranded On Death Row.1992, Ice Cube - jacking For Beats 1990

EPMD - Get The Bozack 1989 = DMX - Get At Me Dog 1998

EPMD - Please Listen To My Demo 1989 > Kriss Kross - Tonight 1995, Ice Cube - Record Company Pimpin 2000,

EPMD - Knick Knack Patty Wack 1989 = Dr Dre , 2Pac - california Love 1996

EPMD - Rampage 1990 = Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man 1991

EPMD - For My People 1990 > The Game - No More Fun and Games 2005

EPMD - Brothers On My Jock 1990 = Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500, 1996

EPMD - Underground 1990 = Black Moon - How Many Mc's 1993

EPMD - Funky Paino 1990 > 50 Cent - Disco Inferno 2005

EPMD - Headbanger 1992 = Ruff Ryders - Ryde Or Die






To put the emphasis on EPMDs influence on G Funk

You have to ask....why did an all west coast album have EPMD on it?

Listen to this song produced by eric Seron in 1992. This song came out a few months before The Chronic. In 2017 it sounds like G Funk but in late 1992 this was the EPMD sound.






No crew had shyt on lock like DefSquad/Hit Squad 1992. Das Efx had the early part, K Solo and Epmd had the summer and Redman closed out the year. Early 90's Marly was still nice..Large Professor was dope, Preemo was that dude but EPMD were the best at repping that hardcore ny sound. They fukked everything up by breaking up.





Im 1991 i was listening to this album and nikkaz4life equally. Both of them are equal level classics.

#1 summer hip hop album 1992.....Between the boomerang soundtrack, Mo Money soundtrack, dj quik, Little sHawns debutalbum, MC Brains debut album and MC Rens ep....EPMD had the best album that summer.

 

[I love Latina women]

Captain Obvious.





















































Just joking, bruh.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

The Convicts where from the South..I see you overlooked that as well.

And EMPD didnt influence G Funk.

Eric Sermon just happen to be one of the first rappers to sample funk..

 

[SirBiatch]

Good thread breh. Some of those tracks I didn't know

 

[smokeurobinson]

The Convicts where from the South..I see you overlooked that as well.

And EMPD didnt influence G Funk.

Eric Sermon just happen to be one of the first rappers to sample funk..

Geto Boys from the south too, I see u overlooked that.




But back to EPMD influencing G Funk...


Actually it was PE and EPMD......PE gave the west those popular whistles.....





But the whistles go as far back as Afrika Bambatta


Why u think Dre remixed Express Yourself to sound like PE? Because PE was the biggest thing at the time.










Lets go back to 1988 tho......when EPMD was doing this..



Eazy E had Boyz N The Hood which musically sounds like mid 80s NYC Hip Hop.



Even Cube admitted they were trying to do PE's type sound on SOC








But back to EPMD...This is proof that Dr Dre in some form acknowledged what EPMD was doing atleast by 1989 because he's in the video.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Geto Boys from the south too, I see u overlooked that.




But back to EPMD influencing G Funk...


Actually it was PE and EPMD......PE gave the west those popular whistles.....





But the whistles go as far back as Afrika Bambatta


Why u think Dre remixed Express Yourself to sound like PE? Because PE was the biggest thing at the time.










Lets go back to 1988 tho......when EPMD was doing this..



Eazy E had Boyz N The Hood which musically sounds like mid 80s NYC Hip Hop.



Even Cube admitted they were trying to do PE's type sound on SOC








But back to EPMD...This is proof that Dr Dre in some form acknowledged what EPMD was doing atleast by 1989 because he's in the video.

lol..I I did overlook the Geto boys on that compilation.

And come on breh breh..NYC is the Mecca so they had influence over most if not all aspects of hip hop period..

It really wasnt UNTIL G funk that changed the landscape of rap music.

Other than..cats where outright looping funk and/or throwing breakbeat drums(the foundation of hiphop music) over the track..

And I take it when you mean P.E. you are referring to the Bomb Squad..

 

[prophecypro]

Facts

and they were on Def Jam and if there's been two labels that have done a good job of preserving Hip Hop history and showcasing their former artists its Def Jam and Interscope (and the rights they have to priority, death row etc etc)

I'm surprised they havent been immortalised more

 

[Bugsmoran]

Epmd's influence is slept on because they're one of them groups that had a big impact on Hiphop but they was never Popular

They considered themselves Underground

 

[Doobie Doo]

As good as EPMD may have been I think their Achilles heel were lyrics. None of them really have any quotable verses. Just a style other people took and ran with

 

[General Mills]

My all time fav duo. Strictly Business and Unfinished Business still get played weekly from me.

EPMD introduced us to Redman, Keith Murray and KSolo.

So much piff


I cried real tears when they broke up

 

[General Mills]

More nikkas need to listen to Crossover. The lyrics are REAL.

 

[FlimFlam]

I always wanted to hear a dj merge Redmans jam for you and Scarfaces its real (my fave face song) in a mix...same beat wit two vastly different mcs...both shyts was crazy standout tracks on the albums

 

[General Mills]

DJ Scratch. Criminally underrated

 

[Yehuda]

When I first heard them, they had a new style. It was a style that people kinda attributed to Rakim [who was also from Long Island], but to me their music was a lot funkier. When I think of EPMD, I think of beats — I think of the ultimate beats, and they had 'em. They had some of the best beats that money could buy. The first three albums — it's hard to find better beats in that era. Them dudes was just known for having everything an MC needs. My favorite EPMD song? Oh my God ... 'You Gots to Chill.' When they dropped that, that's what did it for us out here in the West because they was using [Zapp's] 'More Bounce to the Ounce,' and it was just fire.

Cube on EPMD when MTV made that greatest groups of all time list.

 

[FlimFlam]

As good as EPMD may have been I think their Achilles heel were lyrics. None of them really have any quotable verses. Just a style other people took and ran with

Soooo many notable people quoted sooo many epmd lyrics this statement aint addin up

"Jus like epmd , l never trust bytch named J. to the A. to the N. E." Da lench mob

That line immediately came to mind...so much more out there u jus gotta be up on em to catch it