You Gots To Chill
Performing artist
EPMD
Producer
EPMD
Record company
Fresh Records
Mastering engineer
Herb Powers Jr.
Date1988
Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (Diameter): 11 13/16 in. (30.004 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1999.425.61.A,.B
Text Entries“You Gots To Chill” is a song by EPMD released in 1988 off their debut album Strictly Business (1988). The song sampled “More Bounce to the Ounce” by Zapp and “Jungle Boogie” by Kool & the Gang. Signed under Fresh Records this song was produced by EPMD. Known as a Hip-Hop classic, the song reached number 22 on the U.S. R&B Chart and listed as number 74 on VH1’s Greatest Hip-Hop Songs.
EPMD is an American Hip Hop duo from Brentwood, New York. The duo's name is a concatenation 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: Two men posing, looking down at the camera wearing colorful varsity jackets. EPMD You Gots to Chill is printed on top of cover. Back cover: Three men posing in a squat position. Track list and credits are printed.
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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