Strictly Business is the debut album by golden age hip-hop duo EPMD. It was released on June 21, 1988, by Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records around the world and BCM Records in Germany. It peaked at No. 80 on the Billboard 200 soon after release, yet it earned an RIAAgold album certification within four months of its release. In addition, it has received much positive critical attention since its release. In 2003, the album was ranked number 459 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album is known for its lighthearted party raps and funky sample-reliant production. The album has no guest emcees or producers except DJ K La Boss. The album is broken down track-by-track by the group in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique.
Reception
Initial
Strictly Business peaked at No. 80 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. Of its four singles, three landed on the UK Singles Chart and two reached the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Although none of the singles reached the Billboard Hot 100, the album was able to go gold within four months of its release. Initial reviews of the album were strong: Allmusic gave the album a five star rating calling the album "simply amazing".The Source assigned the album a 5-mike rating making it one of 43 albums to ever receive this rating.Robert Christgau also gave it an A- rating soon after its release.Strictly Business was also featured on various "best of 1988" lists. The Face ranked it as the third best album of the year, and ranked its title track as the 25th best single of the year.Sounds judged it to be the 50th best album of the year, while Spex ranked it as the 8th best.
Strictly Business is a full-length collaboration album released by Haystak & JellyRoll on December 3, 2011. The collaboration album peaked at 67 on the Billboard 200 R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and 16 on the Heatseekers Albums.
"Strictly Business" is the debut single by EPMD from its debut album, Strictly Business. Written and produced by the duo, "Strictly Business" became EPMD's first charting single, becoming a minor hit on the R&B charts. Although not a huge success when it was released, "Strictly Business" has since become a hip hop classic, making it to several best hip hop songs lists.
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Strictly Business · EPMD
Strictly Business
℗ 1988 Priority Records LLC
Released on: 2010-01-01
Producer: Erick Sermon
Producer: PMD
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Charlie Marotta
Composer Lyricist: Parrish Smith
Composer Lyricist: Erick Sermon
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published: 16 Mar 2017
It's Not Personal It's Strictly Business ( The Godfather 1972 )
Mike, let me look at you.
You're beautiful, beautiful.
You're gorgeous.
The Turk wants to talk! Imagine
the nerve of the son-of-a-bitch.
- He wants a meeting today.
- What did he say?
What did he say... He wants us to
send Michael to hear the proposition.
He promises that the deal
is too good to refuse.
- And Bruno Tattaglia?
- That's part of the deal.
- He cancels out what they did to Father.
- We should listen to them.
No more! Not this
time, Consigliere.
No more meetings, discussions,
or Sollozzo tricks.
I want Sollozzo,
or we go to war...
- The other families...
- They hand me Sollozzo!
This is business, not personal!
- They shot my father...
- Even that was business, not personal.
Then business will have to suffer.
Do me a favor.
No more advice on how to patch things up.
Just help me ...
published: 15 Apr 2016
LIL SKIES - Strictly Business (prod: Menoh Beats, Taz Taylor & Nick Mira) [Official Audio]
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published: 10 Jan 2018
Strictly Business (1991) Official Trailer - Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry Movie HD
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Strictly Business (1991) Official Trailer - Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry Movie HD
Fun-loving Bobby is a mail boy in a big firm, but he has a trump card, his best friend Waymon, a "white" African-American who is almost a partner in the firm. They make a deal: Waymon will try to move Bobby to the trainee broker programme if he will help him meet Natalie, the girl of his dreams. There's only one problem, everyone will have to change...
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Strictly Business · EPMD
Strictly Business
℗ 1988 Priority Records LLC
Released on: 2010-01-01
Producer: Erick...
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Strictly Business · EPMD
Strictly Business
℗ 1988 Priority Records LLC
Released on: 2010-01-01
Producer: Erick Sermon
Producer: PMD
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Charlie Marotta
Composer Lyricist: Parrish Smith
Composer Lyricist: Erick Sermon
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Strictly Business · EPMD
Strictly Business
℗ 1988 Priority Records LLC
Released on: 2010-01-01
Producer: Erick Sermon
Producer: PMD
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Charlie Marotta
Composer Lyricist: Parrish Smith
Composer Lyricist: Erick Sermon
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Mike, let me look at you.
You're beautiful, beautiful.
You're gorgeous.
The Turk wants to talk! Imagine
the nerve of the son-of-a-bitch.
- He wants a meeting to...
Mike, let me look at you.
You're beautiful, beautiful.
You're gorgeous.
The Turk wants to talk! Imagine
the nerve of the son-of-a-bitch.
- He wants a meeting today.
- What did he say?
What did he say... He wants us to
send Michael to hear the proposition.
He promises that the deal
is too good to refuse.
- And Bruno Tattaglia?
- That's part of the deal.
- He cancels out what they did to Father.
- We should listen to them.
No more! Not this
time, Consigliere.
No more meetings, discussions,
or Sollozzo tricks.
I want Sollozzo,
or we go to war...
- The other families...
- They hand me Sollozzo!
This is business, not personal!
- They shot my father...
- Even that was business, not personal.
Then business will have to suffer.
Do me a favor.
No more advice on how to patch things up.
Just help me win.
I found out about Captain
McCluskey, who broke Mike's jaw.
He's definitely on Sollozzo's
payroll, and for big money.
McCluskey has agreed to
be The Turk's bodyguard.
So when Sollozzo is being
guarded, he's invulnerable.
Nobody has ever gunned down
a New York police captain.
All the families would come after you.
The Corleone family would be outcasts!
Even the old man's political
protection would run for cover.
Do me a favor. Take this
into consideration.
All right, we'll wait.
We can't wait. We can't wait.
No matter what Sollozzo says,
he's going to kill Pop.
That's the key for him.
We've got to get Sollozzo.
- Mike is right.
- Let me ask you something.
What about this McCluskey?
What do we do with this cop?
They want to have a
meeting with me, right?
It will be me, McCluskey
and Sollozzo.
Let's set the meeting.
Get our informers to find out
where it's going to be held.
We insist it's a public place.
A bar, a restaurant.
Some place where there are
people, so I feel safe.
They'll search me when
I meet them, right?
So I can't have a weapon on me.
But if Clemenza can figure out a way
to have a weapon planted there for me
then I'll kill them both.
Nice college boy. Didn't want to get
mixed up in the family business.
Now you want to shoot a police
captain because he slapped you?
This isn't like the army! You have to get
close and get their brains on your suit.
You're taking this
very personal.
Tom, this is business and
he's taking it personal.
- Where does it say you can't kill a cop?
- Mikey...
I'm talking about a cop who's mixed
up in drugs, a dishonest cop.
A cop who got mixed up in the
rackets and got what was coming.
That's a terrific story. We have
newspaper people on the payroll, right?
- They might like a story like that.
- They might.
It's not personal, Sonny.
It's strictly business.
Mike, let me look at you.
You're beautiful, beautiful.
You're gorgeous.
The Turk wants to talk! Imagine
the nerve of the son-of-a-bitch.
- He wants a meeting today.
- What did he say?
What did he say... He wants us to
send Michael to hear the proposition.
He promises that the deal
is too good to refuse.
- And Bruno Tattaglia?
- That's part of the deal.
- He cancels out what they did to Father.
- We should listen to them.
No more! Not this
time, Consigliere.
No more meetings, discussions,
or Sollozzo tricks.
I want Sollozzo,
or we go to war...
- The other families...
- They hand me Sollozzo!
This is business, not personal!
- They shot my father...
- Even that was business, not personal.
Then business will have to suffer.
Do me a favor.
No more advice on how to patch things up.
Just help me win.
I found out about Captain
McCluskey, who broke Mike's jaw.
He's definitely on Sollozzo's
payroll, and for big money.
McCluskey has agreed to
be The Turk's bodyguard.
So when Sollozzo is being
guarded, he's invulnerable.
Nobody has ever gunned down
a New York police captain.
All the families would come after you.
The Corleone family would be outcasts!
Even the old man's political
protection would run for cover.
Do me a favor. Take this
into consideration.
All right, we'll wait.
We can't wait. We can't wait.
No matter what Sollozzo says,
he's going to kill Pop.
That's the key for him.
We've got to get Sollozzo.
- Mike is right.
- Let me ask you something.
What about this McCluskey?
What do we do with this cop?
They want to have a
meeting with me, right?
It will be me, McCluskey
and Sollozzo.
Let's set the meeting.
Get our informers to find out
where it's going to be held.
We insist it's a public place.
A bar, a restaurant.
Some place where there are
people, so I feel safe.
They'll search me when
I meet them, right?
So I can't have a weapon on me.
But if Clemenza can figure out a way
to have a weapon planted there for me
then I'll kill them both.
Nice college boy. Didn't want to get
mixed up in the family business.
Now you want to shoot a police
captain because he slapped you?
This isn't like the army! You have to get
close and get their brains on your suit.
You're taking this
very personal.
Tom, this is business and
he's taking it personal.
- Where does it say you can't kill a cop?
- Mikey...
I'm talking about a cop who's mixed
up in drugs, a dishonest cop.
A cop who got mixed up in the
rackets and got what was coming.
That's a terrific story. We have
newspaper people on the payroll, right?
- They might like a story like that.
- They might.
It's not personal, Sonny.
It's strictly business.
Lil Skies - Strictly Business (prod: Menoh Beats, Taz Taylor & Nick Mira)
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Strictly Business (1991) Official Trailer - Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry Movie HD
Fun-loving Bobby is a mail boy in a big firm, but he has a trump card, his best friend Waymon, a "white" African-American who is almost a partner in the firm. They make a deal: Waymon will try to move Bobby to the trainee broker programme if he will help him meet Natalie, the girl of his dreams. There's only one problem, everyone will have to change...
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Strictly Business (1991) Official Trailer - Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry Movie HD
Fun-loving Bobby is a mail boy in a big firm, but he has a trump card, his best friend Waymon, a "white" African-American who is almost a partner in the firm. They make a deal: Waymon will try to move Bobby to the trainee broker programme if he will help him meet Natalie, the girl of his dreams. There's only one problem, everyone will have to change...
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Strictly Business · EPMD
Strictly Business
℗ 1988 Priority Records LLC
Released on: 2010-01-01
Producer: Erick Sermon
Producer: PMD
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Charlie Marotta
Composer Lyricist: Parrish Smith
Composer Lyricist: Erick Sermon
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Mike, let me look at you.
You're beautiful, beautiful.
You're gorgeous.
The Turk wants to talk! Imagine
the nerve of the son-of-a-bitch.
- He wants a meeting today.
- What did he say?
What did he say... He wants us to
send Michael to hear the proposition.
He promises that the deal
is too good to refuse.
- And Bruno Tattaglia?
- That's part of the deal.
- He cancels out what they did to Father.
- We should listen to them.
No more! Not this
time, Consigliere.
No more meetings, discussions,
or Sollozzo tricks.
I want Sollozzo,
or we go to war...
- The other families...
- They hand me Sollozzo!
This is business, not personal!
- They shot my father...
- Even that was business, not personal.
Then business will have to suffer.
Do me a favor.
No more advice on how to patch things up.
Just help me win.
I found out about Captain
McCluskey, who broke Mike's jaw.
He's definitely on Sollozzo's
payroll, and for big money.
McCluskey has agreed to
be The Turk's bodyguard.
So when Sollozzo is being
guarded, he's invulnerable.
Nobody has ever gunned down
a New York police captain.
All the families would come after you.
The Corleone family would be outcasts!
Even the old man's political
protection would run for cover.
Do me a favor. Take this
into consideration.
All right, we'll wait.
We can't wait. We can't wait.
No matter what Sollozzo says,
he's going to kill Pop.
That's the key for him.
We've got to get Sollozzo.
- Mike is right.
- Let me ask you something.
What about this McCluskey?
What do we do with this cop?
They want to have a
meeting with me, right?
It will be me, McCluskey
and Sollozzo.
Let's set the meeting.
Get our informers to find out
where it's going to be held.
We insist it's a public place.
A bar, a restaurant.
Some place where there are
people, so I feel safe.
They'll search me when
I meet them, right?
So I can't have a weapon on me.
But if Clemenza can figure out a way
to have a weapon planted there for me
then I'll kill them both.
Nice college boy. Didn't want to get
mixed up in the family business.
Now you want to shoot a police
captain because he slapped you?
This isn't like the army! You have to get
close and get their brains on your suit.
You're taking this
very personal.
Tom, this is business and
he's taking it personal.
- Where does it say you can't kill a cop?
- Mikey...
I'm talking about a cop who's mixed
up in drugs, a dishonest cop.
A cop who got mixed up in the
rackets and got what was coming.
That's a terrific story. We have
newspaper people on the payroll, right?
- They might like a story like that.
- They might.
It's not personal, Sonny.
It's strictly business.
Lil Skies - Strictly Business (prod: Menoh Beats, Taz Taylor & Nick Mira)
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Strictly Business (1991) Official Trailer - Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry Movie HD
Fun-loving Bobby is a mail boy in a big firm, but he has a trump card, his best friend Waymon, a "white" African-American who is almost a partner in the firm. They make a deal: Waymon will try to move Bobby to the trainee broker programme if he will help him meet Natalie, the girl of his dreams. There's only one problem, everyone will have to change...
Welcome to the Fandango MOVIECLIPS Trailer Vault Channel. Where trailers from the past, from recent to long ago, from a time before YouTube, can be enjoyed by all. We search near and far for original movie trailer from all decades. Feel free to send us your trailer requests and we will do our best to hunt it down.
Strictly Business is the debut album by golden age hip-hop duo EPMD. It was released on June 21, 1988, by Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records around the world and BCM Records in Germany. It peaked at No. 80 on the Billboard 200 soon after release, yet it earned an RIAAgold album certification within four months of its release. In addition, it has received much positive critical attention since its release. In 2003, the album was ranked number 459 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album is known for its lighthearted party raps and funky sample-reliant production. The album has no guest emcees or producers except DJ K La Boss. The album is broken down track-by-track by the group in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique.
Reception
Initial
Strictly Business peaked at No. 80 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. Of its four singles, three landed on the UK Singles Chart and two reached the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Although none of the singles reached the Billboard Hot 100, the album was able to go gold within four months of its release. Initial reviews of the album were strong: Allmusic gave the album a five star rating calling the album "simply amazing".The Source assigned the album a 5-mike rating making it one of 43 albums to ever receive this rating.Robert Christgau also gave it an A- rating soon after its release.Strictly Business was also featured on various "best of 1988" lists. The Face ranked it as the third best album of the year, and ranked its title track as the 25th best single of the year.Sounds judged it to be the 50th best album of the year, while Spex ranked it as the 8th best.