Smif-N-Wessun

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Smif-N-Wessun in Phoenix 2015

Smif-N-Wessun is an American hip hop crew from New York . She is also known by her second Crewn name Cocoa Brovaz , which they had to adopt after a legal battle with the Smith & Wesson company . However, the group is currently using the old name again. The crew consists of the rappers Tek and Steele. Both come from the borough of Brooklyn , which they have given their pseudonym Bucktown . You are under contract with the label Duck Down .

Career

Tek and Steele met in 1993. In their area they met Ruck aka Sean Price and Rock, known as Heltah Skeltah ; Buckshot, 5ft, and Evil Dee known as Black Moon ; Starang Wondah, Top Dog and Louieville Sluggah, known as OGC . All crews together make up the Boot Camp Clik . Tek & Steele released their debut album Dah Shinin in 1995 under their then Crewname Smif'n'Wessun . The company Smith & Wesson looked too great a similarity of names and after a three-year legal battle finally changed Tek & Steele their crew name in 1998 in Cocoa Brovaz . In the same year the successor work The Rude Awakening followed . In 2004 a best of album was released with the title Still Shinin . It contains all the tracks, remixes and freestyles from the two rappers . In 2005 they released their album Reloaded , now again under the name Smif'N'Wessun . Guests like Tony Touch , Talib Kweli , Dead Prez , Da Beatminerz are represented.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Dah shinin '
  US 59 01/28/1995 (8 weeks)
The Rude Awakening
  US 21st 04/18/1998 (7 weeks)
Monumental (with Pete Rock )
  US 110 07/16/2011 (1 week)
Singles
Bucktown
  US 93 05/28/1994 (5 weeks)
  • 1995: Dah Shinin (as Smif-N-Wessun)
  • 1995: Wontime / Stand Strong (as Smif-N-Wessun) (single)
  • 1995: Bucktown / Let's Git It On (as Smif-N-Wessun)
  • 1995: Wrekonize / Sound Bwoy Bureill (as Smif-N-Wessun)
  • 1995: Headz Aint Redee (with Black Moon) (single)
  • 1996: Wrekonize (as Smif'n'Wessun)
  • 1997: Won on Won (as Cocoa Brovaz)
  • 1998: The Rude Awakening (as Cocoa Brovaz)
  • 1998: Bucktown USA Remix (as Cocoa Brovaz) (single)
  • 2004: Still Shinin (as Smif'n'Wessun)
  • 2005: Reloaded (as Smif'n'Wessun)
  • 2006: X-Files Official Mix (as Smif'n'Wessun)
  • 2006: Wreckonize (as Smif'n'Wessun) (single)
  • 2007: Get Up (as Cocoa Brovaz with Royce da 5'9 ″ ) ( vinyl single)
  • 2007: Like a Champion (as Smif-N-Wessun) (single)
  • 2007: Buck Town (as Smif-N-Wessun) (single)
  • 2007: The Album (as Smif-N-Wessun)
  • 2011: Monumental (as Smif-N-Wessun, with Pete Rock )
  • 2012: Get Ya Paper (as Smif-N-Wessun, with Sido and B-Tight ) on Sido's #Beste (single)
  • 2012: Eyes Straight (as Smif-N-Wessun, with Sadat X ) on Love, Hell or Right (single)
  • 2019: The All (as Smif-N-Wessun & 9th Wonder, with 9th Wonder), with Raekwon , Rick Ross , Rapsody ( vinyl album)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: US