Strictly Business

Strictly Business

Infobox Album |
Name = Strictly Business
Type = studio
Artist = EPMD


Released = June 7, 1988 [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18395765/hiphops_greatest_year_fifteen_albums_that_made_rap_explode/print "Hip-Hop's Greatest Year: Fifteen Albums That Made Rap Explode"] , "RollingStone.com", February 12, 2008. Retrieved on July 27, 2008.]
July 1, 1991 (second pressing)
Recorded = 1987–1988
North Shore Soundworks
Island Media Studios
(West Babylon, New York)
Genre = Hip-hop
Length = 45:22
Label = Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records
LPRE-6 (first pressing)

Priority/EMI Records
0499 2 57135 2 7
P2-57135 (second pressing)
Producer = EPMD
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfqxqy5ldfe link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=EPMD link]
*RapReviews Rating|9.5|10 [http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_strictbiz.html link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626987/459_strictly_business link]
*The Source Rating|5|5 [http://www.listsofbests.com/list/12875/compare/daemon6 link]
*Sputnikmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=6877 link]
Last album =
This album = "Strictly Business"
(1988)
Next album = "Unfinished Business"
(1989)

"Strictly Business" is the debut album by hip-hop duo EPMD. Released in 1988, it is widely considered a classic hip-hop album, receiving a 5-mic rating from The Source magazine, one of 43 albums ever to be given this rating. [http://www.listsofbests.com/list/12875 5-mic albums List by The Source magazine] In 1998, the album was selected as one of "the Source Magazine"'s 100 Best Hip-Hop Albums. RS500|459 It is ranked as the 916th best album of all time by Acclaimedmusic.net. [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net] The album was one of three titles acquired by Priority/EMI Records when Sleeping Bag Records ceased operations in 1992.

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