“Head Banger” was released as the second and final single from EPMD’s fourth album Business Never Personal and features Hit Squad members K-Solo and Redman, who provided a show-stealing verse at the end. This track was the last from the full Hit Squad as EPMD split for a few years after this album with Erick and Redman forming the Def Squad with Keith Murray. Erick Sermon provides the beat where the main sample comes from Parliament’s 1978 song “One of Those Funky Thangs.” “Head Banger” later inspired the 1999 Ruff Ryders posse cut “Ryde or Die.” EPMD, K-Solo and Redman reunited in 2021 to perform the track during Redman and Method Man’s Verzuz performance.