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The duo “Das EFX” emerged in 1991 from the well-established East Coast Hip-Hop scene. The group is composed of Willie “Skoob” Hines and Andre “Krazy Drayz” Weston. With their first album “Dead serious” released in 1992, the group creates a mini-revolution by using an ultra-fast rap associated with funky beats. The album was a commercial success. The following year, Das EFX released their second LP “Straight up Sewaside”, “Hold it down” in 1995, and “Generation EFX” in 1998. Their last album was “How We Do” which was released in 2003.
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Das EFX’s wildly playful, rapid-fire stuttering — dense with rhymes and nonsense words — was one of the most distinctive and influential lyrical styles in early-’90s hip-hop. While the duo completely rewrote the MC rule book, they themselves were increasingly pegged as a one-dimensional novelty the longer their career progressed, despite watching elements of their style creep into countless rappers’ bags of tricks. Krazy Drazyz (born Andre Weston; Teaneck, NJ) and Skoob (born Willie Hines) were both raised in Brooklyn, but didn’t begin performing together until they met at Virginia State University in 1988. Removed from an active music scene, the two were free to develop their most idiosyncratic tendencies; they started making up gibberish words (anything ending in “-iggity” was a favorite) that added loads of extra syllables to their lines, and wove plenty of pop-cultural references into the tongue-twisting lyrical gymnastics that resulted.
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Das EFX’s wildly playful, rapid-fire stuttering — dense with rhymes and nonsense words — was one of the most distinctive and influential lyrical styles in early-’90s hip-hop. While the duo completely rewrote the MC rule book, they themselves were increasingly pegged as a one-dimensional novelty the longer their career progressed, despite watching elements of their style creep into countless rappers’ bags of tricks. Krazy Drazyz (born Andre Weston; Teaneck, NJ) and Skoob (born Willie Hines) were both raised in Brooklyn, but didn’t begin performing together until they met at Virginia State University in 1988. Removed from an active music scene, the two were free to develop their most idiosyncratic tendencies; they started making up gibberish words (anything ending in “-iggity” was a favorite) that added loads of extra syllables to their lines, and wove plenty of pop-cultural references into the tongue-twisting lyrical gymnastics that resulted.
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Cruzzzz wrote:
generation efx - this is what i call real hip hop. fuckin amazing rap's style!
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kapteeni_mauser wrote:
hold it down and generation efx are my shit
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seyyjJ wrote:
They Want EFX is just pure perfection =D
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Peacen wrote:
Ready To Rock Rough Ryhmes ...
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afrothunder23 wrote:
they are surreal
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egotripping wrote:
Real hip hop is not sampled near enough
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MarcusAurelio wrote:
Marvellous flow on these guys, Baknaffek and Here we go....terrific.
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bojz wrote:
the Real hip hop !!!
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BBacid wrote:
Das EFX wit da Real Hip Hop!
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el_yucatan wrote:
natty dread
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Inci90 wrote:
dopefreshmatic
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Inci90 wrote:
dopefresh
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Inci90 wrote:
dope
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lastfmgs wrote:
These guys were so fun
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GadgetFunk wrote:
make way for tha underground rappa
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i_got wrote:
They r boring...
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elcovert wrote:
REAL hip hop! None of that ring tone rap shit!
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dafunkee wrote:
his the best album is Hold It Down
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BlessedVoodoo wrote:
Sick stuff... Dead Serious and Hold It Down - my favorite albums...
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mrc333 wrote:
now there, let me crack a beer and kick my feet up, turn the heat up and smiggidy smoke all the weed up
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