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Onyx

Throw ya guns in the air, and buck buck like you just don’t care… The group of early pioneering rap artists known as Onyx would get their start in the city of Brooklyn New York in the year of 1988. They would form an alliance with one another and begin recording beats and rhythms that were put to words in a new music genre that had begun taking the east coast cities by storm.

Rap, or hip hop, as it is also known, had started to take hold as an up and coming style of music shared by many in the more urban areas at the time although it has become a household genre of music of the present. After they would get their rhythm and style, the group would start recording their music in the late 1980’s and be one of the major contributors to the hip hop world of today. The group would create their first single in 1990 called Ah, and WE Do It Like This, which was a jazzy album set to voice but was said to be nothing like what they would ever release in the future. The single would gain them radio play around the United States and would get name out to many. Also, they would begin doing performances in support of their singles as well as for the demos and EP’s that they had made along the way.

From this single, the group would go on to sign a deal with Def Jam records and would create their first full length studio album called Bacdafucup, which was released in 1993. The record was praised by the rap community and was considered a great commercial success for the group and would receive heavy airplay of many of the tracks across the radio waves as well as MTV.

However, the group did experience a growing number of people who did not like the display of sexual and violent tendencies of Onyx that was displayed on stage at their shows and in their lyrics. They would be deemed as a threat by many groups including the NAACP. The group would continue to perform in spite of the growing efforts to curb their shows and go on to release their next album in 1995. The group would release the album called All We Got Iz Us in 1995 and would be listed as the best rap album produced of that year according to VIBE magazine. The record did not fair commercially as well as their first but it would be claimed as generally successful in the total number of albums sold. Just before the release of the album, one of the original members would leave the group due to conflicting efforts of microphone time and the group would now consist of only two rappers.

After the album, the group would not release another record for quite some time although they would make some appearances in movies of the late 1990’s such as Sunset Park and Dead Presidents. 1998 would see the release of their third full length studio album called Shut’Em Down and would have a number of appearances by other up and coming hip hop artists of the time. The album was a commercial success and created an avenue for the artists to begin releasing works to solid foundations of fans.

They would continue releasing albums well into the 2000’s after signing with a different company called Koch records. Fans of the group can visit their official website where they may find free music downloads or music available for internet screening.

Did you know that...

• ...member Sticky Fingers was arrested for disrupting an airplane flight in the early 1990’s.
• ...the group has had an ongoing feud with rapper 50 Cent.
• ...Onyx started a project called Yung Onyx in 2006.