The Beatnuts

JuJu (left) and Psycho Les (right)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Beatnuts   US 182 07/09/1994 (2 weeks) Stone crazy   US 154 07/12/1997 (1 week) Musical Massacre   US 35 11/18/1999 (8 weeks) Take It or Squeeze It   US 51 04/07/2001 (7 weeks) Milk Me   US 196 11/18/2004 (1 week)

Singles

Off the Books (with Big Punisher and Claudette Sierra )   US 86 09/27/1997 (3 weeks) Watch Out Now (with Yellaklaw )   US 84 06/26/1999 (12 weeks) No escapin 'this   UK 47 07/14/2001 (2 weeks) Dude Descending a Staircase (with Apollo 440 )   UK 58 06/21/2003 (1 week) Watch Out Now   UK 84 04/10/2004 (2 weeks) Find Us (feat. Akon )   UK 92 10/16/2004 (1 week)

The Beatnuts is a Latino - Rap duo, which 1991 by JuJu (Jerry Tineo) - The Dominican descent - and Psycho Les (Lester Fernandez) - the Colombian descent - in Queens , New York was founded. The group has gone through many label changes. Her current label is Penalty Recordings .

For their first album, which was released in 1993, they took Fashion aka Al Tariq into the group, but after the first album it was no longer part of the group. They also have good connections to Tony Touch , Triple Seis, Cuban Link, Chino XL and Big Pun when he was still alive.

In addition to working for their own albums, they produced for Ghostface , Common , Mos Def , Missin Linx, Vinnie Paz and the Latino rapper Kurious, among others .

Discography

• 1993: Intoxicated Demons
• 1994: Streetlevel / The Beatnuts
• 1997: Stone Crazy
• 1997: Hydra Beats Vol. 5
• 1998: The Beatnuts Remix EP: The Spot
• 1999: A Musical Massacre
• 2001: Take It or Squeeze It
• 2002: The Classic Nutz Vol. 1
• 2002: Present: The Originators
• 2004: Milk Me
• 2008: UFO Files

Web links

• Unofficial Beatnuts page (English)
• The Beatnuts at laut.de
• The Beatnuts at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: UK US1 US2 US3