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Fu-Schnickens was an American hip-hop trio from the New York district of Brooklyn . Even before the Wu-Tang Clan , they introduced style elements that originally come from Kung Fu into the hip-hop scene. Together with Shaquille O'Neal , What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock) a mainstream hit.

history

The band's name is made up of F or U nity and the portmanteau Schnickens , which according to the band coalition means. The band members were Moc Fu (J. Jones), Poc Fu (Lennox Maturine) and Chip Fu (Roderick Roachford). Her high-speed raps, heavily influenced by the toasting of Jamaican dancehall artists, often contained puns and allusions to cartoons , martial arts films and trash culture . Every now and then they even rapped backwards, in the same high-speed style.

All three band members are from East Flatbush , Brooklyn. There they gained first notoriety through club appearances. When they performed at a conference on rap at Howard University in Washington, DC in 1991 , they were discovered by a representative of the record label Jive Records . Their first LP FU Don't Take It Personal and the singles from it were produced in part by A Tribe Called Quest . Their first release, the 1992 single Ring the Alarm , made it into the top 10 of Billboard magazine's "Hot Rap Singles" charts . The accompanying album F.U. Don't Take It Personal reached the top 20 on the Billboard R&B charts. The songs True FuSchnick and La Schmoove also included there are now considered cult classics of hip-hop.

The second album Nervous Breakdown followed in 1994, but did not get nearly the attention of the previous one. Then it became quiet around the group.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
FU Don't Take It Personal
  US 64 06/20/1992 (20 weeks)
Nervous breakdown
  US 81 11/12/1994 (4 weeks)
Singles
What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock) (with Shaquille O'Neal )
  US 39 08/14/1993 (17 weeks)
Breakdown
  US 67 October 29, 1994 (20 weeks)

Albums

  • 1992: FU Don't Take It Personal
  • 1994: Nervous Breakdown
  • 1995: Greatest Hits

Singles

  • 1991: Ring the Alarm
  • 1992: La Schmoove
  • 1992: True Fuschnick
  • 1992: Heavenly Father
  • 1993: What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock) (with Shaquille O'Neal )
  • 1994: breakdown
  • 1994: Sum Dum Munkey
  • 1995: Got It Covered

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fu-Schnicken's Biography on allmusic.com, accessed on August 23, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ FU Don't Take It Personal Album Info on discogs.com, accessed August 23, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: US