![]() ![]() And that's partially what kept our energy going at that high level. That's just the creative side of making music. We was dropping papers, taking meth tabs, during that whole album. ".While we were recording the album, niggas was on LSD the whole time, straight up. įredro drops a very interesting fact about the group's mind state when recording Bacdafucup: The album was recorded in 7 different studios in New York.ĭuring the recording of the album, Fredro Starr and Sticky Fingaz were still working at the Nu Tribe Barber Shop on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, New York City until they heard their song "Throw Ya Gunz" on the radio in November 1992. The recording of the album began in September 1991 and ended in August 1992, when Fredro Starr acting in a movie " Strapped", and from the set he went to the studio to record the album. Jeff Harris was credited as the producer of the three songs on this album: "Blac Vagina Finda", "Nigga Bridges" and "Stik 'N' Muve", but in fact he was just the group's manager since the release of their first single in 1990, and after the release of Onyx's first album, they grew apart. Jam Master Jay's friend, Kool Tee, also known as a member of rap groups Solo Sounds and The Afros, produced two songs on the album: "Atak Of Da Bal-Hedz" and "Da Nex Niguz". He was always there in the studio with us. Sticky says of the late great JMJ: “Jay was very hands-on, one hundred percent. But despite this, he basically let Onyx and Chyskillz do their thing. Jam Master Jay attended the studios during the recording of absolutely every song and was guided by the group in the process of recording the album, applying his hand as a producer to many tracks. The first song that Chyskillz ever did for ONYX was "Nigga Bridges". ![]() We brought him into our zone and made him do some grimy shit."Ĭhyskillz was picked as the main producer of the album, he produced 16 of 18 songs. I knew he could put beats together right away. We was buying weed at the weed spot and Chy was chasing my truck down the street, yelling, 'I got beats!' His stuff back then was jazzy, on some Tribe Called Quest shit, but it was hot. ".We met Chyskillz on Jamaica Avenue one day. In Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique Fredro described how Onyx met their future producer: So the group needed a new music producer. When we lost that sound, that was the end." When he got murdered, we lost that sound. I said, “Yo, don’t go down South, I just met Jam Master Jay.” He went down south, he got murdered. ".When I met Jam Master Jay, I told B-Wiz, who was doin’ his thing, sellin’ drugs, goin’ to Baltimore. In 1991, despite the reproaches from Fredro, the Onyx's music producer, B-Wiz, sold his drum machine SP-12 and went to Baltimore to sell crack, and eventually he was killed in Baltimore. Jay signed the group to his label, JMJ Records, for a single deal, then for an EP deal followed by an album deal because they did 10 songs on a budget of 6 songs. Jam Master Jay liked these songs and that's how Sticky joined the group, because Jay said, “If Sticky ain't in the group, it ain't no group!”. And they both were crazy! When Jay heard the songs he was like, 'Yo, I love the group'." One was called 'Stick and Move' and the other was called 'Exercise'. ".When we went to the studio we made two records. Fredro and Sticky Fingaz made two records, "Stik 'N' Muve" and "Exercise". So Jeff Harris, the manager of Onyx, asked Fredro to come to the studio with his cousin, Kirk Jones, who would join the group and be known as a group member as "Sticky Fingaz" who at the time was doing a solo career under the name Trop and working in the barbershop making a thousand dollars a week cutting high school. Jay gave them about two months to get a demo, but Suave and Big DS didn't make it to the studio because they were stranded in Connecticut. 8 Appearance in movies and on televisionįredro Starr, Big DS and Suave (also known as Sonny Seeza) met Jam Master Jay in a traffic jam at The Jones Beach GreekFest Festival on July 13, 1991.Their breakout single, "Slam", which received heavy airplay on both radio and television ( MTV and BET), leading the song to reach #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and get Platinum on August 10, 1993. The first single, "Throw Ya Gunz", became a crossover radio hit. The album features three of the Billboard singles " Throw Ya Gunz", " Slam" and " Shifftee". In 1994, the album was nominated as "Rap/Hip-Hop New Artist" on American Music Awards of 1994 and won "Best Rap Album" on 1994 Soul Train Music Awards. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on October 25, 1993. The album was produced by Chyskillz, Jam Master Jay and Kool Tee.īacdafucup peaked at number 17 on the US Billboard 200, and number 8 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. Bacdafucup is the debut album by American hip hop group Onyx, released on Maby JMJ Records, Rush Associated Labels and Chaos Recordings. ![]()
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