Dishonorable Hip Hop Honors

Although Tony Draper of Suave House Records was snubbed when the Pioneers of Southern Hip Hop were honored last year, nearly all of the inductees to the VH1 Hip Hop Honors have been deserving that I can remember. But for the last two or three years, I've been wondering how can one of the greatest Hip Hop duos of all time has consistently been left off of the guest list. Who had one of the coldest samples of "More Bounce to the Ounce", rocked the ill fisherman caps, brought us Redman, K-Solo, Das Efx, Keith Murray, Illegal, and had one of the livest DJ's in DJ Scratch. That team would be Eric Sermon and Parrish Smith, Eric and Parrish Making Dollars or EPMD for short.

I remember when they first came out, I took the bus to the mall with my walkman and bought the "Strictly Business" cassette and rocked it the whole way home. I must've played "You Gots to Chill" a million times that night. That album went gold which was big back then. On all of their albums they maintained the "Business" themes - Strictly Business, Business as Usual, Back to Business, which was fitting since they penned their own rhymes and handled a bulk of the production. Even during a break up of the Brentwood, Long Island duo, they maintained the "Business" theme.

What VH1 should do is handle their business and give proper respects to one of the all time great Hip Hop duos. How in the hell do you honor Def Jam and only have one verse of "Crossover". People need to know that after Run DMC, there was a tag team that held it down and made a way for some of the dopest MC's that the '90's saw. Eric Sermon even helped Shaq with his first album. So, I'm thinking that until this is done, VH1 is on some bull$#!* and I'm not rockin' with them until they have sobered up from the wack juice that they have been sipping honor EPMD. I would advise all Hip Hop heads to do as I do and write them and let's see what happens. As always, TELL SOMEBODY and follow me on Twitter at @TheMarcusObrien.