Lords of the Underground

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Lords of the Underground
General information
Genre (s) Hip hop
founding 1990, 1999
resolution 1995
Current occupation
Mr. Funke
MC
 DoItAll Dupré
Lord Jazz

The Lords of the Underground (LOTUG) are an American hip-hop group from Newark, New Jersey . It consists of the MCs Mr. Funke and DoItAll Dupré as well as the DJ Lord Jazz.

Career

The Lords were instrumental in the so-called Golden Age of Hip Hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her biggest hits were the singles Funky Child , Chief Rocka and Tic Toc . Most of her pieces were produced by Marley Marl .

For their first album Here Come the Lords (1992) they received an award for Best Rap Group 1993 from Black Entertainment Television . On the title track of the second album Keepers of the Funk (1994) there is a cameo by George Clinton . This song is less raw and melodically more unconventional than most of her other pieces.

From around 1992, the public's taste changed strongly in the direction of gangsta rap . As a result, the Lords of the Underground and similar groups lost a lot of their importance.

Her reunion album Resurrection was released in 1999 on Queen Latifah's Jersey Kidz label, but was barely noticed due to a lack of promotion. In 2007 the album House of Lords was released .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US
1993 Here come the lords - US66 (25 weeks)
US
First published: March 30, 1993
1994 Keepers of the Funk UK68 (1 week)
UK 		US57 (3 weeks)
US
First published: November 1, 1994

more publishments

  • 1999: Resurrection
  • 2007: House of Lords
  • 2014: Lotug 20: The 20th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 1

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US
1993 Funky Child
Here Come the Lords 		- US74 (11 weeks)
US
First published: February 4, 1993
Chief Rocka
Here Come the Lords 		- US55 (20 weeks)
US
First published: June 3, 1993
Here Come the Lords
Here Come the Lords 		- US93 (6 weeks)
US
First published: December 1993
1994 Flow On
Here Come the Lords 		UK89 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: April 26, 1994
Tic Toc
Keepers of the Funk 		- US73 (15 weeks)
US
First published: October 11, 1994

More singles

  • 1992: Psycho
  • 1995: What I'm After
  • 1995: Faith

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lords of the Underground: Biography on mtv.com, accessed on July 30, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US