WHY??? Besides Rakim Epmd was the 1st few rappers to stop with the animated old school flow and just spat on tracks, which is why there songs sound relevant to this day. This album touched on a lot of issues you hear in Hip-hop today. When the boys are keeping niggas who doubt you in check on "You Got's To Chill" to
Best Song: Strictly Business
Best Bar: PMD - Your A Customer...Gotta give him props for stepping up to The GOD MC RAKIM (Had to give ya the whole 4 bars for yall 2 understand it)
The style we're using, no doubt copastetic
You try to bite and yet sound pathetic
Design my rhymes like a taylor, floatin' like a sailor
As the P gets stronger, MC's get staler
Best Verse: PMD - Strictly Business
Total chaos -- no mass confusion
Rhymes so hypnotizin known to cause an illusion
Like a magician.. who pulls a rabbit out a hat, son
I pull them all like a .44 magnum
Mc freeze stop look and listen, and try to imagine
Its travellin the speed of light, but everythings motion
Is frightening.. plus the thought you alone
You now enter dimension, called the twilight zone
Youre terrified.. plus you cant bear the thought
You and I one-on-one, in the land of the lost
You start to shiver.. but then you scream, my friend
Yo wake up muttley, because youre dreamin again
But next time Im on the scene, do not try to diss us
Keep your mouth shut sucker duck, because Im strictly business
