Strictly Business
by EPMD
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Strictly Business is ranked as the best album by EPMD.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/05/2025 19:53 | Hyggevinyl | 4,195 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/12/2025 04:13 | Jparce | 225 | 82/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2025 04:08 |  Kingturtle | 7,530 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/20/2025 22:42 | RogueSimon | 202 | 84/100 |
| ! | 04/09/2025 15:55 |  Volee | 290 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.3/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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Album Rating: 80.50
(805/10)
07.06.1988
EPMD (USA): Strictly Business
1.Strictly Business 85
2.I'm Housin' 84
3.Let The Funk Flow 83
4.You Gots To Chill 85
5.It's My Thang 91
6.You're A Customer 81
7.The Steve Martin 79
8.Get Off The Bandwagon 76
9.D.J. K La Boss 68
10.Jane 73
VictorVale 01/27/2023 18:29 | #293317
Não tem como não se sentir maneiro ouvindo esse álbum...
Larcx13 12/07/2020 11:31 | #262189
Stripped down funky beats and smooth rhyming. I actually prefer this to PE's Nation for its length and simplicity and I also prefer it to Rakim's Follow The Leader since it has way less "DJ breaks". Also better than Straight Outta Comtpon for me, maybe not as many classic tracks but I can listen to Strictly Business through and through, minus the "DJ break" of course, not Straight Outta Compton.
Since the beats are so simple, some of the tracks may seem to drag on a bit because they're mostly all the golden age length of 4 to 5 minutes.
Perfectly fine golden age hip hop album with a laid back, funky streak. May have a hard time standing out in the sea of hip hop that was 1988... let alone modern hip hop fans.
Perfectly fine golden age hip hop album that may have a hard time standing out in the sea of hip hop that was 1988... let alone modern hip hop fans
junodog4 04/30/2018 03:45 | #213911
It's unbelievable that this album isn't even in the top 2000. This is a cornerstone album for hip-hop.
One of the best hip-hop albums from the 80s.
swhaze 12/29/2014 15:45 | #130366
This is old-school hip-hop at its finest. Love the beats, the lyrics and all of the scratching and mixing in the background.
Graeme2 06/27/2014 21:36 | #115491
Amazing hairs stand up music. Only ever had a few of traks off this at the time and wish I'd had the full album as only had it couple of years. 88 man. Very efficient indeed.
Norman Bates 05/12/2012 13:52 | #42071
Definitely not enough love for EPMD on this site. Great boom-bap, very efficient.
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