★★★★★
1988 was a very good year for the then-still blossoming music form of hip-hop. Many critics and historians have even gone as far as to refer to this time period as the Golden Age of Hip-Hop. The dubious title doesn't go unwarranted by any means -- 1988 saw the release of plenty of hip-hop albums that over the course of the next 25 years would hold up as venerable hip-hop classics. For starters, take Biz Markie's Goin Off, Sir Mix-A-Lot's SWASS and Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock's It Takes Two...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-12-11
★★★★★
Fourth time's a charm? Well,maybe. EPMD's fourth and latest release, Business Never Personal, continues their rough andrugged course. Over stripped-down fat beats ? which border on theslushy and unwieldy ? Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith's, trade linescelebrating their own musical and lyrical skills in their signaturelisps. Sure, it's the same meat-and-potatoes recipe that has earnedthem three gold records, but you won't find a more compelling lessonin relentless, basic funk.
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
Where were you in '92? A lot of us were cultivating a longstanding relationship with Ed Lover and Dr. Dre (Who's the Man Dre, not The Wash Dre) and maybe have spent at least a half hour of the past decade wondering how K-Solo and/or Keith Murray keeps busy these days...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Not to sound all old and grumpy, but they really don't make perfect hip-hop albums like they used to. Yeah, there is still some great hip-hop going on but so much of it seems to be 'single' based and not so much about a tight coherent album from start to finish...
- aquariusrecords.org
2010-04-01
★★★★★
The 1980's gave birth to a series of rap groups whose names would be forever
etched in the hip-hop hall of fame: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Treacherous Three, Run-D.M.C., De La Soul, Public Enemy, and the Beastie
Boys. These are a few of the many recalled fondly by hip-hop fans and also
acknowledged by critics as directly responsible for laying the foundations
of hip-hop's success in the 1990's and beyond...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Some albums are LOCKED IN from the very first time you hear them. 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.
For me EPMD's "Business as Usual" was LOCKED IN for all of those reasons
and more...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Redman's humerous update of R. Kelly in "Symphony 2000" is dope, but after
listening to their new album I have a different suggestion for how it should go:
Did you ever think you would drop some crap?
Yo did you ever think your shit would be wack?
Yo did you ever think you would fall off hard
and get played out, thinkin you still a star?
It pains me to say this as a longtime EPMD fan, but they should never have gotten
Back in Business...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
The 1980's gave birth to a series of rap groups whose names would be forever
etched in the hip-hop hall of fame: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Treacherous Three, Run-D.M.C., De La Soul, Public Enemy, and the Beastie
Boys. These are a few of the many recalled fondly by hip-hop fans and also
acknowledged by critics as directly responsible for laying the foundations
of hip-hop's success in the 1990's and beyond...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Redman's humerous update of R. Kelly in "Symphony 2000" is dope, but after
listening to their new album I have a different suggestion for how it should go:
Did you ever think you would drop some crap?
Yo did you ever think your shit would be wack?
Yo did you ever think you would fall off hard
and get played out, thinkin you still a star?
It pains me to say this as a longtime EPMD fan, but they should never have gotten
Back in Business...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
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