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Onyx
All Music Guide
Onyxs shouting, in-your-face brand of high-volume rapping proved to be more at home in the slam pit than on the dancefloor and brought the ap quartet instant chart success. Originally formed in Queens, NY, during 1990, the members of Onyx (Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz, Big DS, and DJ Suave Sonny Caeser) met while working as barbers. The band honed their rhyming skills and act by performing at local clubs, which eventually gained the attention of Run-D.M.C.s Jam Master Jay, who signed the group to his label, JMJ Records, and even helped produce Onyxs debut full-length, Bacdafucup, in 1993. The album turned out to be a platinum-certified smash, spurred on by the runaway success of the hit single Slam, which went on to become one of the years biggest ap hits. The group confirmed that they were just as content attracting a heavy metal audience by a pair of collaborations with the N.Y.C. hardcore metal outfit Biohazard (a remix of Slam credited to Bionyx, and the title track to the motion picture #Judgment Night). The album even beat out such stiff competition as Dr. Dres ap classic The Chronic at the Soul Train Awards for Best Rap Album that year. But Onyx was unable to continue their commercial success as such subsequent albums as 1995s All We Got Iz Us and 1998s Shut Em Down came and went without much fanfare. The late 90s saw members Sticky and Fredro try their hand at acting, landing spots on HBOs #Strapped, Spike Lees #Clockers, the Rhea Pearlman/Danny De Vito-directed #Sunset Park, and Brandys hit TV show #Moesha. The various members tried to launch solo careers, but the records never connected with audiences. With the ap genres continuous changes and shifts, they decided to try a comeback and reappeared with 2002s Bacdafucup, Pt. II.
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
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