The Orlando Magic get a bit of free advertising here on EPMD's MusiCard. Must've been a fresh cap at the time this photo was taken. The NBA expansion team was established in 1989 and started winning over fans en masse after drafting Shaq in '92.
EPMD have 4 cards in the Yo! MTV Raps sister set, though this is the act's lone appearance in the Super Stars checklist.
Don't let the Florida hat fool you, as the guys represent from Brentwood, New York. The duo formed in 1987, with name evolving from EEPMD ("Easy Erick and Parrish the Microphone Doctor") to EPMD ("Erick and Parrish Making Dollars"). They temporarily broke up a couple times in the 90s and made multiple respective solo albums, but have otherwise kept at it over the years, still teamed up today.
As hinted on the back of their card, they've got a quirk where all their album titles include the word "Business":
Strictly Business (1988)
Unfinished Business (1989)
Business as Usual (1990)
Business Never Personal (1992)
Back in Business (1997)
Out of Business (1999)
We Mean Business (2008)
Their '92 song "Crossover" did in fact crossover into the mainstream, becoming EPMD's highest chart success, hitting #42 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their top track on streaming these days, however, is "Da Joint" from 1997.
If you're interested in learning more about EPMD, here's a handy link to their Wikipedia entry for your convenience.
CUSTOM CORNER
I thought I'd be cheeky and pair up EPMD with KMFDM, essentially turning the post title into a Scrabble hand.
I've never listened to much KMFDM, honestly, and am mostly familiar with them due to the clunky name that commonly gets misinterpreted as a slag against the band Depeche Mode.
KMFDM - "Megalomaniac"
After a perusal of the group's wiki entry, I can tell you they formed in Germany in 1984, originally as a performance art project. The name stands for Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid, loosely translated by the band as "No Sympathy for the Majority", though apparently they started the "Kill MFing Depeche Mode" thing while messing with journalists on their first US tour, later working it into lyrics of a song (2013's "Kunst").
I might describe the sound as in-your-face dance music, while they like to think of it as "The Ultra-Heavy Beat", and music critics often use terms like industrial, techno, and electro. I've listened to plenty of early Nine Inch Nails and some Ministry, but never really plunged all the way into stuff like Skinny Puppy and KMFDM. I've been checking out some tracks while working on this post and it's cool stuff, though not the kind of thing I'm likely to keep in regular rotation.
And they're still at it. The 23rd studio album from KMFDM, Enemy, came out just this past February 2026.
How about you readers? R U into EPMD or KMFDM? LMK in the comments.
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