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The Hit Squad was a 1990s East Coast hip hop collective formed by Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith (E.P.M.D.). The collective separated when EPMD broke up for the first time in 1993.
The members were:
In 1998 Redman, Keith Murray and Erick Sermon formed Def Squad and released their album El niño.
In 2006 most of the former Hit Squad members reunited. A new album for the Hit Squad/Def Squad is planned.
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First Priority Music was an American hip hop record label of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Its most well-known artists are hip hop acts Audio Two and MC Lyte, and singers Eamon and Jason Downs.
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Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York. It lies on the border of the the Bronx. This is where Heavy D’s family moved to when he was 3 years old and where he grew up.
Heavy D has a song about it on the album Living Large.
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Mardi Gras refers to events of the Carnival celebrations. Mardi gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It’s called Fat Tuesday because it’s the last night you can eat richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season.
Seems like a pretty fun party:
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Häagen-Dazs is an ice cream brand, established in 1967, in Bronx, New York.
They started with only three flavors; vanilla, chocolate, and coffee. Now they have flavors like the one mentioned by Celph Titled:
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Lakim Shabazz is a hip hop emcee and one of the founding members of the original version of the Flavor Unit crew. He was active during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Erick Sermon is so good with the mic, it has to be magic.
Chris Webber is a retired professional basketball player. In 1994 Webber was traded to the Washington Bullets. He spent the next three years with the Bullets.
In 1995, owner Abe Pollin announced he was changing the team’s name because Bullets had acquired violent overtones that had made him increasingly uncomfortable over the years, particularly given the high homicide and crime rate in the early 1990s in Washington, D.C.
On May 15, 1997, the Bullets officially became the Washington Wizards.
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Freddy Krueger is a fictional character and the bad buy of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He kills his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the waking world as well.
It's me, transformed I'm Eazy-E EPMD – House Party
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This refers to Ruthless Records, a record label founded by founded by gangsta rapper Eazy-E and N.W.A manager Jerry Heller.
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In 1988 E.P.M.D. (Parrish Smith and Erick Sermon released the second single from their debut album Strictly Business, You Gots to Chill. It reached number 22 on the U.S. R&B chart.
In this interview Erick Sermon tells the stories behind their classic records.
