Out Of Business
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Out of Business is the sixth album from Hip Hop
duo EPMD
, which changed its initialism for the release from Erick & Parrish Making Dollars to Erick & Parrish Millennium Ducats.
A limited-edition version of the album was also released with a bonus greatest hits disc that features tracks spanning from 1987 to 1997. The versions of the tracks from its two first albums are rerecorded versions because EMI would not license these tracks to Def Jam for inclusion.
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
duo EPMD
EPMD
EPMD is an American hip hop group from Brentwood, New York. The group's name is a concatenation of the members' name "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars", referencing its members, emcees Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith...
, which changed its initialism for the release from Erick & Parrish Making Dollars to Erick & Parrish Millennium Ducats.
A limited-edition version of the album was also released with a bonus greatest hits disc that features tracks spanning from 1987 to 1997. The versions of the tracks from its two first albums are rerecorded versions because EMI would not license these tracks to Def Jam for inclusion.
Track listing
# | Title | Producer(s) | Performer(s) |
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1 | "Intro" | DJ Scratch DJ Scratch DJ Scratch is an American hip hop DJ and producer.-Career:DJ Scratch is the 1988 New Music Seminar Battle For World Supremacy DJ Champion, Grammy nominated, Multi Platinum Producer & The 2010 Master Of The Mix World Champion.... |
Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
2 | "Pioneers" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
3 | "Right Now" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
4 | "Check 1,2" | Parrish Smith, 8-Off Agallah | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
5 | "Symphony" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith, M.O.P. M.O.P. M.O.P., short for Mash Out Posse, is an American hip hop duo. The duo, composed of Billy Danze and Lil' Fame, is known for the aggressive delivery typically employed by both emcees. Although they maintain a strong underground following, they are mainly known for the song "Ante Up," released on... |
6 | "Hold Me Down" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
7 | "Rap Is Still Outta Control" | Parrish Smith, Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith, Busta Rhymes Busta Rhymes Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes... |
8 | "The Fan" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
9 | "Draw" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
10 | "U Got Shot" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith, 8-Off Agallah Agallah Agallah , born Angel Aguilar, is a Puerto Rican and Filipino-American rapper who was a member of the The Diplomats-affiliated group Purple City and the group Propain campaign. He was formerly known as 8-Off Agallah, but changed the name because it was controversial; 8-Off is a variation of the name... , 215 |
11 | "House Party" | Parrish Smith | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
12 | "The Funk" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
13 | "Symphony 2000 Symphony 2000 "Symphony 2000" was the lead single released from EPMD's sixth album, Out of Business. The song was produced by Erick Sermon and featured verses from EPMD's labelmates, Redman, Method Man and Lady Luck... " |
Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith, Redman, Method Man Method Man Clifford Smith , better known by his stage name Method Man is an American hip hop artist, record producer, actor and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He took his stage name from the 1979 film The Fearless Young Boxer, also known as Method Man. He is one half of the rap duo Method Man... , Lady Luck Lady Luck (rapper) Lady Luck is the stage name of rapper Shanel Jones.Luck signed a five-album record deal with Def Jam worth between half a million and a million dollars at the age of 17 on the strength of several freestyles that she did for New York radio station WQHT-FM... |
14 | "Jane 6" | Parrish Smith | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
Greatest Hits disc
# | Title | Producer(s) | Performer (s) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | "It's My Thing" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
2 | "You Gots to Chill '97" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
3 | "Strictly Business" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
4 | "So Wat Cha Sayin'" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
5 | "The Big Payback" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
6 | "Get the Bozack" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
7 | "Please Listen to My Demo" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
8 | "Gold Digger" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
9 | "Rampage" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith, L.L. Cool J |
10 | "Crossover" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
11 | "Head Banger" | EPMD | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith, K-Solo K-Solo K-Solo is an American rapper from Central Islip, New York who, along with EPMD, Redman, Das EFX, and Keith Murray, was part of the Hit Squad in 1990s.-Late years:... , Redman |
12 | "Never Seen Before" | Erick Sermon | Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
13 | "Da Joint" | Erick Sermon, Rockwilder Rockwilder Rockwilder is an American hip hop and R&B record producer, rapper, and R&B Singer. A long term friend of Def Jam rapper Redman, Rockwilder got his start producing for East Coast Hip Hop artists in the mid 1990s. In 1999 Rockwilder produced Method Man & Redman's hit single "Da Rockwilder"... |
Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith |
Album chart positions
Year | Album | Chart positions | |
Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums | ||
1999 | Out of Business | #13 | #2 |
Singles chart positions
Year | Song | Chart positions | |
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | Hot Rap Singles | ||
1999 | "Symphony 2000 Symphony 2000 "Symphony 2000" was the lead single released from EPMD's sixth album, Out of Business. The song was produced by Erick Sermon and featured verses from EPMD's labelmates, Redman, Method Man and Lady Luck... " |
#62 | #28 |