>And I've said it before, but I think it's a tragedy because
>hip-hop never really was quite as fun post-EPMD break-up. It
>was the first time that hip-hop "died" a little bit to me.

to me, EPMD (and their collective) was like what Wu-Tang eventually became in the mid-90s. When I saw the news on Yo! MTV Raps, I was seriously hurt by the news... they were the best collective of rappers back then to me, and they were at the height of their popularity.