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On the top, the sample-reliant productions and monotone rapping varieties of Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith had little to recommend them, however the duo’s recordings as EPMD were one of the better in hip-hop’s underground through the past due ’80s and early ’90s. During the period of four albums (from …

After EPMD’s early-’90s split, Parrish Smith went solo and dropped the “e” through the duo’s name — which stood for Erick, as with Erick Sermon — to record as PMD (as with “Parrish Building Dollars”). In 1994, he released Color Business (offering guest places from Das EFX and EXCELLENT), and …