Funcrusher Plus

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Funcrusher Plus
Studio album by
Company Flow
ReleasedJuly 22, 1997 (1997-07-22)
Studio
  • Ozone
  • No Mystery (New York)
Genre
Length73:52
LabelRawkus
ProducerCompany Flow
Company Flow chronology
Funcrusher
(1995) 		Funcrusher Plus
(1997) 		Little Johnny from the Hospitul: Breaks & Instrumentals Vol.1
(1999)
Singles from Funcrusher Plus
  1. "8 Steps to Perfection"
    Released: 1996
  2. "Blind"
    Released: 1997

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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
[7]
Los Angeles Times[8]
Muzik10/10[9]
NME7/10[10]
Pitchfork9.0/10[11]
PopMatters9/10[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[12]
Spectrum Culture[13]
Spin8/10[14]

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] 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 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]

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]

Brian Coleman of

CMJ New Music Monthly called it "the most important release of 1997 thus far."[16] 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."[17]

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.

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.[19]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Bad Touch Example"
  • Breezly Brewin
  • J-Treds
El-P5:02
16."Krazy Kings"IngletonEl-P4:52
17."Last Good Sleep"MelineMr. Len, El-P5:59
18."Info Kill II"
  • Ingleton
  • Meline
El-P3:48
19."Funcrush Scratch" Mr. Len2:48
Total length:73:52

Notes

Personnel

  • El-P – producer, lead vocals, mixing
  • Bigg Jus – producer, lead vocals
  • Mr. Len – producer, scratching
  • R.A. the Rugged Man – vocals
  • J-Treds – vocals
  • BMS – vocals
  • Breezly Brewin – vocals
  • Vassos – recording, engineering, mixing
  • Jeff Cordero – recording, engineering, mixing
  • Walker Bernard – recording, engineering
  • Chris Athens – mastering

Singles chart positions

Year Song
Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
1997 "Blind" 44[20]

References

  1. The Boombox
    . Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  2. Respect.
    Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  3. ^
    Complex
    . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Newmark, Mike (September 13, 2009). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". PopMatters. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  5. ^ a b McCall, Tris (October 4, 2011). "Song of the Day: 'Lune TNS,' Company Flow". NJ.com. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  6. ^ a b Huey, Steve. "Funcrusher Plus – Company Flow". AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  7. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8
    .
  8. ^ a b Weiss, Jeff (May 7, 2009). "Album Review: Company Flow's 'Funcrusher Plus' reissue". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  9. ^ Ashon, Will (August 1997). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus (Official/Rawkus)". Muzik (27): 125.
  10. ^ Moody, Paul (September 27, 1997). "Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus". NME. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  11. ^ a b Patrin, Nate (May 15, 2009). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  12. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8
    . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  13. ^ Hanover, Nick (May 19, 2009). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  14. ^ a b Tompkins, Dave (August 1997). "Lateef and Lyrics Born: Latyrx / Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". Spin. 13 (5): 116–18. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  15. ^ Dolan, Jon (November 26, 1997). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". City Pages. Archived from the original on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  16. CMJ New Music Monthly
    : 51.
  17. ^ Schafer, Joseph (January 29, 2014). "El-P Albums From Worst To Best - Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (1997)". Stereogum. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  18. Pitchfork Media
    . Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  19. ^ "The 100 best indie hip-hop records of all time (98/101)". Fact. February 25, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  20. ^ "Company Flow - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2015.

External links

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