Da Joint

{{Infobox song | name = Da Joint | cover = Da Joint.jpg | alt = Adjacent photos of Parrish Smith and Erick Sermon, in blue and red filter, respectively; EPMD logo is above them on the left side and "The Joint 12″ Single" text is centered above them. | type = single | artist = [[EPMD]] | album = [[Back in Business (EPMD album)|Back in Business]] | B-side = You Gots 2 Chill '97 | released = September 1997 | recorded = 1997 | studio = Mirror Image, [[Long Island]] | venue = | genre = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]] | length = 3:27 | label = [[Def Jam Recordings|Def Jam]] | writer = [[Rockwilder|Dana Stinson]], [[Erick Sermon]], [[James Brown]], [[PMD (rapper)|Parrish Smith]] | producer = Erick Sermon, [[Rockwilder]] | chronology = [[EPMD]] | prev_title = [[Head Banger (EPMD song)|Head Banger]] | prev_year = 1992 | next_title = [[Richter Scale (song)|Richter Scale]] | next_year = 1997 }} "'''Da Joint'''" (sometimes spelt "'''The Joint'''") is the first single from [[EPMD]]'s fifth album, ''[[Back in Business (EPMD album)|Back in Business]]''. Produced by [[Erick Sermon]] and [[Rockwilder]],<ref name="complex" /> "Da Joint" became EPMD's second and final single to make it to the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]],<ref>{{cite magazine |title=EPMD Chart History |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/epmd/chart-history/hsi/ |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref> peaking at 94 on the chart with approximately 100,000 copies sold in the first week.<ref name="complex" /> "Da Joint" was released a week before the ''Back in Business'' album, making it to the first release by the newly reformed EPMD since the group's 1992 single, "[[Head Banger (EPMD song)|Head Banger]]".

[[Hype Williams]] was planning to shoot the music video for "Da Joint", but those plans never materialized. Instead, [[Steve Carr]] directed the music video.<ref name="complex">{{cite web |last=Isenberg |first=Daniel |title=Erick Sermon Tells All: The Stories Behind His Classic Records (Part 2) |url=https://www.complex.com/music/2012/03/erick-sermon-tells-all-the-stories-behind-his-classic-records-part-2/da-joint |website=[[Complex (magazine)|Complex]] |access-date=11 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

==Track listing== ;Side A #"Da Joint" (Radio Edit) – 3:26 #"Da Joint" (LP Version) – 3:27 ;Side B #"Da Joint" (Instrumental) – 3:26 #"You Gots 2 Chill '97" (Radio Edit) – 3:27

==Personnel== Credits are adapted from the single's liner notes.<ref name="linernotes">{{Cite AV media notes|title=The Joint|author=EPMD|year=1997|type=liner notes|publisher=[[Def Jam]]|id=314 571 679-1|location=New York City}}</ref>

* [[Erick Sermon]] – producer, writer * [[Parrish Smith]] – producer, writer * Tommy Uzzo – recording * Ivan "Doc" Rodriguez – mixing * [[Danny Clinch]] – photography

==Charts== {| class="wikitable" !Chart (1997) !Peak<br>position |- |US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1997-11-22|title= The Top 100 Chart|author= |date= November 22, 1997|website= |publisher= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date= 10 August 2021}}</ref> |align="center"| 94 |- |US [[Hot R&B Singles]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1997-11-08|title= Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart|author= |date= November 8, 1997|website= |publisher= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date= 10 August 2021}}</ref> |align="center"| 42 |- |US [[Hot Rap Singles]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.billboard.com/charts/rap-song/1997-09-27|title= Hot Rap Songs Chart|author= |date= September 27, 1997|website= |publisher= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date= 10 August 2021}}</ref> |align="center"| 17 |- |US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{cite magazine|author= |title=US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales|url=|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=32|publisher=|date= September 27, 1997}}</ref> |align="center"| 5 |- |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:1997 singles]] [[Category:1997 songs]] [[Category:EPMD songs]] [[Category:Def Jam Recordings singles]] [[Category:Songs written by Erick Sermon]] [[Category:Songs written by Rockwilder]] [[Category:Songs written by PMD (rapper)]] [[Category:Songs written by James Brown]]