Why is EPMDs influence on Hip Hop so slept on?

[smokeurobinson]

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

To add emphases on EPMDs G funk influence....




Summer 92...EPMDs lead single Crossover.....in 2017 it sound like mid 90's Cali gangster boogie shyt but again, this was EPMDs sound






now lets match that up with MC Rens 1st single for the summer 92, Final Frontier.







This is a 1987 BDP beat....So while one of the hottest mcs from compton was rhyming over South Bronx beats, EPMD was doing what would later be regarded as G Funk

 

[General Mills]

To add emphases on EPMDs G funk influence....




Summer 92...EPMDs lead single Crossover.....in 2017 it sound like mid 90's Cali gangster boogie shyt but again, this was EPMDs sound






now lets match that up with MC Rens 1st single for the summer 92, Final Frontier.







This is a 1987 BDP beat....So while one of the hottest mcs from compton was rhyming over South Bronx beats, EPMD was doing what would later be regarded as G Funk

yes sirrrr!

 

[Jean Jacket]

I like the hook for "Crossover".... bout it.... Props tho.

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

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

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.

Truth

 

[Self_Born7]

hands down, my fav group of all time... used to rock the fisherman hat like P... and it was bc of DJ Scratch, I'm a dj today... word is bond!
got my first pair of technics,,, joints was strait armed too,,, had to glue a penny on the head shell to cut like DJ Scratch to keep the needle from skipping.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

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

breh they may not be super lyrical but Erick Sermon's pretty witty. a number of times he's said some clever shyt that made me laugh out loud.

"nikkas sittin' in they room with brandy/way pissed off thinking how they can't stand me"

matter of fact he floated on this




he's not wack by any means, he's better than them slum village nikkas at least(i'm talking the early iteration not the one with Elzhi in the group)


also, he had some pretty decent bars on that Def Squad album El Nino



I think EPMD is highly slept on and let's not forget all their affiliates, Redman, Keith Murray, Jamal, Das Efx; they've really contributed to the landscape of Hip Hop that's nothing to sneeze at.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

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

*sidenote*
when you gonna bless us with more piff stories breh

 

[diggy]

Fire x 20000000

 

[daze23]

strictly underground funk, keep the crossover

 

[Roland Coltrane]

great thread OP

 

[daze23]

Head Banger was the illest posse cut

 

[THE K-MAN]

Business Never Personal is my shyt!!

 

[the cac mamba]

a lotta iconic beats they did first

that california love one tho :deadjay: this is one of the 'est songs ive ever heard

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

They definitely rapped over some of the greatest beats in Hip Hop

 

[Awesome Wells]

My second favorite group of all-time, after Tribe.

EPMD never got the respect they deserved. They've done more for Hip Hop, than most.