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Revisiting EMPD’s ‘Unfinished Business’: A 35-Year Retrospective
With their sophomore album, the dynamic duo cemented their place in hip-hop as all-time greats employing innovative production, exceptional songwriting, and humorous storytelling.
The star-studded video for the song featured guest appearances from NWA’s Eazy E., Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, K-Solo, and Tone Loc who are letting off massive amounts of rounds at a shooting range and displaying a mutual respect between rappers from both coasts.. One of the best deep buts of EPMD’s catalog, and the era at large, is the funkdafied “Please Listen to My Demo.” Sampling Faze-O’s “Ridin' High”, the song details the group’s efforts to get someone to check out their music before they made it big. EPMD holds the rare distinction of creating a classic debut album and a follow-up LP that was even better along with Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions(1988), Boogie Down Productions’ By All Means Necessary(1988), and Eric B.
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