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| - KRS-One
- Raekwon
- Method_Man
- Redman_(rapper)
- Das_EFX
- Havoc_(musician)
- Hit_Squad
- Hurricane_G
- K-Solo
- Keith_Murray_(rapper)
- Kurtis_Mantronik
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| subject
| - American musical duos
- East Coast hip hop groups
- Def Jam Recordings artists
- Musical groups from Long Island
- Hip hop duos
- Brentwood High School (Brentwood, New York) alumni
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| abstract
| - EPMD (Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith), with their sample-reliant productions and monotone rapping styles, were among the best in hip-hop's underground during the late '80s and early '90s. Never short of a funky groove and a sharp lyric EPMD created many classics over the course of their four albums (from the 1988 classic Strictly Business to 1992's Business Never Personal). Coming together in 1987 - naming themselves EPMD, short for %22Erick and Parrish Making Dollars%22 - the duo recorded their debut single %22It's My Thing%22. That single was later licensed to Chrysalis, and EPMD was eventually signed to Sleeping Bag/Fresh Records for their first full length album %22Strictly Business%22. Ultimately they found themselves on Def Jam by the beginning of the '90s. Presideding over an extended family dubbed the Hit Squad, including Redman, K-Solo, and Das EFX.
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| - EPMD is an American hip hop group from Brentwood, New York. The group's name is a concatenation of the members' names %22E%22 and %22PMD%22 or an acronym for %22Erick and Parrish Making Dollars%22, referencing its members, emcees Erick Sermon (%22E%22 aka E Double) and Parrish Smith (%22PMD%22 aka Parrish Mic Doc). During an interview on college radio station WHOV in 1987, Parrish Smith stated that the name evolved from the original: %22We were originally known as %22EEPMD%22 (Easy Erick and Parrish the Microphone Doctor), but chose to go with EPMD because it was easier to say.%22 He also stated that they dropped the two %22E's%22 because N.W.A.'s Eric Wright was already using %22Eazy-E%22 as his stage name. The group has been active for 29 years (minus two breakups in 1993 and 1999), and is one of the most prominent acts in east coast hip hop. Diamond J and DJ K La Boss were DJs for the group and their current DJ is DJ ScratchThe word %22business%22 is used in every title of the group's albums. Every album also has a track with %22Jane%22 in the title.
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| - E.P.M.D.
- EMPD
- EPEE MD
- EPEEMD
- Erick & Parrish
- Erick & Parrish, EPMD
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