Funcrusher Plus | ||||
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Released | July 22, 1997 | |||
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Length | 73:52 | |||
Label | Rawkus | |||
Producer | Company Flow | |||
Company Flow chronology | ||||
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Singles from Funcrusher Plus | ||||
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Funcrusher Plus is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Company Flow. [2] It was released by Rawkus Records in 1997. [3] In 2009, it was re-released on Definitive Jux. [4] The album has been recognized as "a landmark independent hip-hop release". [5]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
Los Angeles Times | [8] |
Muzik | 10/10 [9] |
NME | 7/10 [10] |
Pitchfork | 9.0/10 [11] |
PopMatters | 9/10 [4] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [12] |
Spectrum Culture | [13] |
Spin | 8/10 [14] |
Jon Dolan of City Pages noted "[Company Flow's] evincing a confrontational critique of 'those signed, big-budget muthafuckas' like none hip hop has attempted since EPMD's Strictly Business." [15] Andrew Hultkrans of Spin gave the album 8 stars out of 10, commenting that "[the album] deconstructed hip-hop conventions and rebuilt them into a spare, murky, sputtering soundscape." [14] Jeff Weiss of the Los Angeles Times felt that "El-P conjured an apocalyptic minimalism -- the sublimated sound of clanging and cluttered train cars, city grime buried beneath cuticles, and the ghostly smoke of burning blunts." [8] Brian Coleman of CMJ New Music Monthly called it "the most important release of 1997 thus far." [16] The New York Times wrote that Company Flow "rap fast, rude, free-associative boasts and dystopian visions over tracks that mesh raunchy old funk snippets with electronic noise, making hip-hop that's simultaneously propulsive and disorienting." [17]
Nate Patrin of Pitchfork said: "With the exception of the nocturnal crystalline funk of the Bigg Jus-produced 'Lune TNS' and the frequent scratch contributions from secret weapon DJ Mr. Len, Funcrusher Plus' beats bear the mark of El-P's dusty-but-digital aesthetic, which even back then had the same sort of beautiful-dystopia Blade Runner feel that informed Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein and his own Fantastic Damage a few years later." [11] AllMusic gave the album a perfect 5 star rating, and writer Steve Huey stated: "[Funcrusher Plus] demands intense concentration, but also rewards it, and its advancement of hip-hop as an art form is still being felt. It's difficult, challenging music, to be sure, and it's equally far ahead of its time." [6]
Joseph Schafer of Stereogum said, "Funcrusher Plus made for a hell of an opening salvo, and most emcee/producers would envy having such a record in their discography, but El mostly improved upon his work here later." [18]
On October 4, 2011, "Lune TNS" was chosen by NJ.com as the Song of the Day. [5]
In 2003, Funcrusher Plus ranked at number 84 on Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list. [19] In 2014, Complex listed the album at number 86 on the 90 Best Rap Albums of the 90s. [3] In 2015, it was chosen by Fact as number 4 on the 100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time. [20]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Bad Touch Example" | El-P | 3:26 | |
2. | "8 Steps to Perfection" |
| El-P | 4:43 |
3. | "Collude/Intrude" (featuring J-Treds) |
| El-P | 5:25 |
4. | "Blind" |
| El-P | 3:42 |
5. | "Silence" | Ingleton | El-P | 3:33 |
6. | "Legends" | Meline | El-P | 4:02 |
7. | "Help Wanted" | El-P | 2:13 | |
8. | "Population Control" |
| El-P | 4:26 |
9. | "Lune TNS" | Ingleton | Bigg Jus | 3:39 |
10. | "Definitive" | Meline | El-P | 5:47 |
11. | "Lencorcism" | Mr. Len | 0:36 | |
12. | "89.9 Detrimental" | Meline | El-P | 1:03 |
13. | "Vital Nerve" (featuring BMS) |
| El-P | 5:01 |
14. | "Tragedy of War (in III Parts)" |
| El-P | 3:49 |
15. | "The Fire in Which You Burn" (featuring The Brewin from the Juggaknots & J-Treds) |
| El-P | 5:02 |
16. | "Krazy Kings" | Ingleton | El-P | 4:52 |
17. | "Last Good Sleep" | Meline | Mr. Len, El-P | 5:59 |
18. | "Info Kill II" |
| El-P | 3:48 |
19. | "Funcrush Scratch" | Mr. Len | 2:48 | |
Total length: | 73:52 |
Notes
Year | Song | Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales [21] |
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1997 | "Blind" | 44 |
Funcrusher Plus | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | July 22, 1997 | |||
Studio |
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Genre | ||||
Length | 73:52 | |||
Label | Rawkus | |||
Producer | Company Flow | |||
Company Flow chronology | ||||
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Singles from Funcrusher Plus | ||||
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Funcrusher Plus is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Company Flow. [2] It was released by Rawkus Records in 1997. [3] In 2009, it was re-released on Definitive Jux. [4] The album has been recognized as "a landmark independent hip-hop release". [5]
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
Los Angeles Times | [8] |
Muzik | 10/10 [9] |
NME | 7/10 [10] |
Pitchfork | 9.0/10 [11] |
PopMatters | 9/10 [4] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [12] |
Spectrum Culture | [13] |
Spin | 8/10 [14] |
Jon Dolan of City Pages noted "[Company Flow's] evincing a confrontational critique of 'those signed, big-budget muthafuckas' like none hip hop has attempted since EPMD's Strictly Business." [15] Andrew Hultkrans of Spin gave the album 8 stars out of 10, commenting that "[the album] deconstructed hip-hop conventions and rebuilt them into a spare, murky, sputtering soundscape." [14] Jeff Weiss of the Los Angeles Times felt that "El-P conjured an apocalyptic minimalism -- the sublimated sound of clanging and cluttered train cars, city grime buried beneath cuticles, and the ghostly smoke of burning blunts." [8] Brian Coleman of CMJ New Music Monthly called it "the most important release of 1997 thus far." [16] The New York Times wrote that Company Flow "rap fast, rude, free-associative boasts and dystopian visions over tracks that mesh raunchy old funk snippets with electronic noise, making hip-hop that's simultaneously propulsive and disorienting." [17]
Nate Patrin of Pitchfork said: "With the exception of the nocturnal crystalline funk of the Bigg Jus-produced 'Lune TNS' and the frequent scratch contributions from secret weapon DJ Mr. Len, Funcrusher Plus' beats bear the mark of El-P's dusty-but-digital aesthetic, which even back then had the same sort of beautiful-dystopia Blade Runner feel that informed Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein and his own Fantastic Damage a few years later." [11] AllMusic gave the album a perfect 5 star rating, and writer Steve Huey stated: "[Funcrusher Plus] demands intense concentration, but also rewards it, and its advancement of hip-hop as an art form is still being felt. It's difficult, challenging music, to be sure, and it's equally far ahead of its time." [6]
Joseph Schafer of Stereogum said, "Funcrusher Plus made for a hell of an opening salvo, and most emcee/producers would envy having such a record in their discography, but El mostly improved upon his work here later." [18]
On October 4, 2011, "Lune TNS" was chosen by NJ.com as the Song of the Day. [5]
In 2003, Funcrusher Plus ranked at number 84 on Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list. [19] In 2014, Complex listed the album at number 86 on the 90 Best Rap Albums of the 90s. [3] In 2015, it was chosen by Fact as number 4 on the 100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time. [20]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Bad Touch Example" | El-P | 3:26 | |
2. | "8 Steps to Perfection" |
| El-P | 4:43 |
3. | "Collude/Intrude" (featuring J-Treds) |
| El-P | 5:25 |
4. | "Blind" |
| El-P | 3:42 |
5. | "Silence" | Ingleton | El-P | 3:33 |
6. | "Legends" | Meline | El-P | 4:02 |
7. | "Help Wanted" | El-P | 2:13 | |
8. | "Population Control" |
| El-P | 4:26 |
9. | "Lune TNS" | Ingleton | Bigg Jus | 3:39 |
10. | "Definitive" | Meline | El-P | 5:47 |
11. | "Lencorcism" | Mr. Len | 0:36 | |
12. | "89.9 Detrimental" | Meline | El-P | 1:03 |
13. | "Vital Nerve" (featuring BMS) |
| El-P | 5:01 |
14. | "Tragedy of War (in III Parts)" |
| El-P | 3:49 |
15. | "The Fire in Which You Burn" (featuring The Brewin from the Juggaknots & J-Treds) |
| El-P | 5:02 |
16. | "Krazy Kings" | Ingleton | El-P | 4:52 |
17. | "Last Good Sleep" | Meline | Mr. Len, El-P | 5:59 |
18. | "Info Kill II" |
| El-P | 3:48 |
19. | "Funcrush Scratch" | Mr. Len | 2:48 | |
Total length: | 73:52 |
Notes
Year | Song | Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales [21] |
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1997 | "Blind" | 44 |