Latest Release
- 9 FEB 2024
- 1 Song
- Music · 2001
- Incredible · 2002
- Hip Hop Années 90 · 1996
- Blutzbrüdaz - Die Mukke zum Film (Deluxe Version) · 2011
- Double or Nothing · 1995
- No Pressure · 1993
- No Pressure · 1993
- Green Eyed Remixes 2 · 2011
- The Lincoln Lawyer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2001
- E Double · 1998
Albums
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- The Green Eyed Bandit always comes through with a funky and melodic sound.
- You gots to chill with these breezy tracks from the EPMD man.
- 2019
Compilations
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017
Appears On
- Keith Murray
- Elijah "The Young Prophit"
- Tone Kapone
- Lakiesha Berri
More To Hear
- Lowkey breaks down the East and West Coast sounds.
- Erick Sermon talks the 30th anniversary of 'Business As Usual.'
- Erick Sermon talks the 30th anniversary of 'Business As Usual.'
- The New Yorker spills details on his solo album, Vernia.
About Erick Sermon
Producer Erick Sermon helped define hip-hop’s more commercial form. Sermon and his Long Island schoolmate Parrish Smith founded EPMD in 1987, introducing a taste for fat electro samples and an ever-so-rough arrangement style that pushed the genre past its founding breakbeats into funkier territory. The joint production work on their chart-topping debut alone, 1988’s Strictly Business, established several samples as canon, including Zapp’s “More Bounce to the Ounce”. “So Wat Cha Sayin’”, from the following year’s Unfinished Business, was one of the first hits to flip P-Funk before Digital Underground’s “The Humpty Dance”. Sermon’s beat for his group’s biggest single, 1992’s “Crossover”, returned to the Roger Troutman well and helped legitimise talkbox rap hooks. He went on to executive-produce the rise of Redman, in whom he found a perfect foil for his bass-driven sample stacks; he developed an enduring relationship with Def Jam labelmate Keith Murray, too. Sermon would go on to work with successive generations of New York royalty, including LL Cool J, Jay-Z, and 50 Cent.
- HOMETOWN
- Bay Shore, NY, United States
- BORN
- 25. November 1968
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap