Serious question... how is Back in business not viewed as EPMD’s best album?

[KickoTheDon]

I know I’m asking to be negged because of how this album is viewed in EPMD’s catalog, but this seems like their best album to me. I fukk with the production and their rhyme styles more on this tape than their 80s/ early 90s albums. The way this album is viewed is how iww is viewed by purists imo. Is this album really as bad as the masses say it is or do older hip hop heads scrutinize this album unfairly?

 

[clutchington]

Back In Business is def their best album 100%. 1997 was their year. From the crazier production to perfecting their flows they didn't even sound like the same group.

 

[get these nets]

Albums 1,2, and 4 were their best albums

They were out of step with the times after they split up.

 

[BuckTheDevil]

Cats don't like that album? That's news to me, but I got U.B. & B.A.U. over it.

 

[prophecypro]

Cause the first 4 go way harder

But its still a dope album, one of the better releases in 97 and a solid 4 mics

I dont know anyone who called it wack like that, I remember when it dropped it had a posiitive reception. Anyone saying its wack now is doing revisionism cause it came out 5 years after they split and its not got the foundational sound that the others did....even though it still got dope music on it. They probably hating on it cause it was after their prime run but its viewed as a great comeback album

 

[Art Barr]

have you heard the second album that is why?

art barr

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Albums 1,2, and 4 were their best albums

They were out of step with the times after they split up.

No way Business as Usual is their best, their 3 album.
First 3 are all very strong to classic IMO.

 

[General Mills]

I love that album but it’s number three for me

1. Unfinished Business
2. Business as Usual
3. Back in Business
4. Strictly Business
5. Business Never Personal
6. Out of Business
7. We Mean Business

 

[Mikeatris]

Business as Usual easy for me

 

[Mikeatris]

No way Business as Usual is their best, their 3 album.
First 3 are all very strong to classic IMO.

Business as Usual is the third album. He did not name that one but it is the best one to me

 

[Threnody]

Is this a joke thread

"you gots 2 chill 97" sounds like hip-hop committing suicide

After PMD's wack solo album and E double falling the fukk off as a producer I
wasn't even checking for EPMD but it was wacker than I thought it was gonna be

 

[THE K-MAN]

Business Never Personal>>>>

 

[ineedsleep212]

Not gonna lie, I thought I was bugging when I was listening to this cuz I saw how it was ranked and looked at by people and was confused.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

Because this song isn't on it.



Or this song.



Even though the '97 version on it.

It was dope though.

 

[DANJ!]

I liked it, it was a good reunion, but nah...

Their first four, especially Business as Usual for me, is the bulk of their greatest work. Back In Business proved that they still had it, but a good deal of it is missing the EPMD synergy that was evident on the first four. With all due respect to them, when they got back together, it never felt/sounded as real as it did the first time around. Even on stage, it always came off like they were doing what was 'good for business', because their solo projects were never as accepted as the group projects (especially P's).