There was a time in my big-headed life I never thought I'd say this, but listening to a lot of old shit, including pretty much every EPMD record, I think I'd say, starting with this tape, EPMD was overrated, and pretty much living off the rep they got from Strictly Business. If you want to get fucked up, play a drinking game where you listen to this record and guzzle each time you hear Erick or Parrish make reference to their first LP. You will be drunk long before that stupid song about having too much to drink where the Puerto Rican guy thinks he's picked up Paula Abdul. The sad thing is I've always loved Erick Sermon, but re-listening to everything lately, if you had to make a tape with Sermon's best ten songs, and none of them could be off Strictly Business, you'd have a hard time making a tape I wouldn't throw out the window of my car riding down the road to work.
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