We pick up the Jane saga sometime in 1992, Business Never Personal has dropped to rave reviews and we're posed with the question "who killed Jane?". Could Jane be dead? Well according to the police in P's crib there's been a homicide and he's the number one suspect. P's mind boggles, "couldn't be the squad kid i think we've been framed". P's cuffed and taken down town, to make matters worse he hasn't been allowed a lawyer. Insults are flying thick and fast between the arresting officer and P, including some rather nasty racial slurs. P decides to ignore the insults but he needs to use facilities to urinate. He's escorted down stairs by an officer and decides there's no time like the present to go for the cops "black 9mm" and let off a few shots to let them know he's innocent. Make sense? Maybe not, but the cop goes down and we're left wondering what happens for a few years while EPMD split up to focus on solo projects....
1997 rolls around and EPMD haved reformed to release Back In Business and as luck would have it 1992's trumped up charges were a mere technicality. P's let go as the dead girl wasn't Jane but Valerie, "the prostitute from downtown". Its two hours later and P is on his way home by bus when its hyjacked by a mysterious women in a robbery. Things escalate quickly, a white chick goes down, an off duty P.O. gets hit along with the driver of the bus, the bus tips and P's taken hostage.
Of course Parrish isn't one to lose his composure as he follows the mysterious female to a range rover. The female starts to roll a a spliff as P begins to wonder "could this be Jane as my co-pilot?" Sure enough, "Jane on the licence plate pushin 95 with no headlights down the interstate".
The final part in the Jane saga is a little convoluted. It plays out on EPMD's 1999 finale, Out Of Business. It would seem that after all the events of the prior albums P is back nailin broads with E, a half Phillipino half black cutie in the back of a Benz to be precise. Like they've learnt nothing at all, the cuties in the benz prove to be a tad scandolous when 5-0 stop the Benz in front of the store the girls have gone into to cop a dutch. The obligatory gun-play ensues and EPMD and the bitches are on the run again. It would seem that a fellow by the name of "Tommy Twotime" who used to "move moonshine" has started "droppin dimes" on the crew and he can be found "down on 48th and Lex near the black museum". Here's where it starts to get a little convoluted. A character by the name of Jay enters the story along with a "chick who talks like a dude" and they begin to reminise on Jay from the schoolyard before the girl lifts her skirt and pulls out a dick and tells jay to bend over. "The chick who talks like dude" proceeds to analy rape jay while P thinks he hears the dude say "yo, don't do it Jane".
What happend to the cuties in E's Benz? What happend to the cops? And most importantly, was Jane a tranny (it was hinted at in Jane3 on Business As Usual), and if he/she was a tranny is P a closet fag? He did after all fuck this creature named Jane on more than one occasion.
In summarising the Jane saga i listend and re-listend to all six EPMD albums trying to make sense of the whole narrative Jane played through out the catalogue. In short it made little to know sense at all, they should've killed the fuckin man/women off on Business As Usual when they found out it was trying to get down with the crew. Are Eric and Parrish fags? (if memory serves Eric Sermon did try to commit suicide over some "unresolved personal issues" a few years ago) Is Jane some bizarre chracter conjured as a vent for thier closet fantasies to be realised?
Mmmmmmmm, probably not. Its just a bunch of rap songs after all.......
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