Line #27 Music/EPMD


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3	->''Coolin at a party, no, better yet, disco''\
4	''Head feelin' mellow from a bottle of cisco''\
5	''Move...[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]... To crush and fry a sucker MC like Crisco'' -- "I'm Housin'"
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8	EPMD [[FunWithAcronyms (Erick & Parrish Making Dollars)]] is a hip-hop duo from Brentwood, NY, that reached the peak of their fame in the late [[TheEighties Eighties]] and early [[TheNineties Nineties]]. The two are known for their laid-back style of rapping -- provided by Erick "E-Double" Sermon's tenor and Parrish "PMD (Microphone Doctor)" Smith's baritone -- which contrasted well with the louder, more hyper-sounding rap acts of the time. There have been a couple of breakups through the years, but EPMD are still active as of lately.
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10	!!Albums:
11	* ''Strictly Business'' (1988)
12	* ''Unfinished Business'' (1989)
13	* ''Business As Usual'' (1991)
14	* ''Business Never Personal'' (1992)
15	* ''Back In Business'' (1997)
16	* ''Out Of Business'' (1999)
17	* ''We Mean Business'' (2008)[[note]]''(Sense a pattern here yet?)''[[/note]]
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19	!!!Tropes all up in their business:
20	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Best personified in "You Gots To Chill":
21	-->Never have to act ill, but if I have to, I kill / So believe me, boy... you gots to chill.
22	* BoastfulRap: Many examples.
23	* CatchPhraseSpoutingDuo: They do incorporate a lot of pop culture references in their rhymes.
24	* "{{Crossover}}": From ''Business Never Personal.'' They're against it.
25	* DanceSensation: "The Creator/SteveMartin".
26	* [[{{Golddigger}} "Gold Digger"]]: Found on their ''Business As Usual'' album; a rap about the evils of women who date and marry guys just to get as much money and gifts from them as possible.
27	* UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop
28	* ICallHimMisterHappy: "Mr. Bozack", depicting a conversation between a man and his STD-ridden genitalia.
29	* OneWomanSong: The "Jane" series.
30	* RecurringCharacter: Some girl named Jane. [[OncePerEpisode Every EPMD album]] has a track with "Jane" in the title.
31	* {{Sampling}}:
32	** Music/BobMarley's "I Shot the Sheriff" for "Strictly Business."
33	** Zapp's "More Bounce to the Ounce" for "You Gots to Chill
34	* SequelSong: "You Gots To Chill '97", from ''Back In Business''. (Followed up "You Gots To Chill" from ''Strictly Business''.)
35	* SeriousBusiness: It's in their album titles, after all.
36	* SongStyleShift: "Scratch Bring It Back Part 2 (Mic Doc)" - PMD stops the beat in the middle of the track, and tells the DJ to put something different on. He then proceeds to make an altogether different-sounding rap.
37	* STDImmunity: Averted on "Mr. Bozack".
38	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: "Jane 3" is about a hard-up gangsta named Jay. Once the rappers visit Jay's place, though, they find out more about "him"...
39	** And then "Jane 6" goes in the ''opposite'' direction.
40	* VisualPun: The entire video for "You Gots To Chill", which was shot inside an ice-cube packaging facility along with stock footage of old refrigerators.
41	* WordSequel: There's "Jane", "Jane 2", "Jane 3", ...and then "Who Killed Jane".

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