The Big Payback
Mastering engineer
Howie Weinberg
Performing artist
EPMD
Recipient
Fresh Records
Producer
Ivan "Doc" Rodriguez
Date1989
Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (Diameter): 11 13/16 in. (30.004 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1999.425.41.A,.B
Text Entries“The Big Payback” is a single from EPMD’s second album Unfinished Business. The single was released in 1989 under Fresh Records.
EPMD is a Hip-Hop duo from Brentwood, New York. The duo's name is a mix of the members' names "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars", referring to its members: emcee E Double (Erick Sermon, b. 1968) and PMD (Parrish Smith, b. 1968).
Front cover: EPMD/ The Big Pay Back is printed in large font. A large blue hand is printed on the bottom right corner. The track list and credits are printed on vinyl.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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