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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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Dead Serious
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Straight Up Sewaside
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Hold It Down
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The Very Best of Das Efx
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Jennyawesome wrote:
Today's rap game needs dude's like Das, the kid's should know what real Hip Hop is all about. I'm tired of hearing guy's with no lyrical ability going platinum. [2]
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Cox_of_Seagulls wrote:
god damn
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JohnnyBlaze92 wrote:
<3
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cdegarr wrote:
this is hip hop
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Tyfusek wrote:
I'm just wondering, are all copies of Das EFX discography censored?
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NIGHTCRAWLER232 wrote:
Today's rap game needs dude's like Das, the kid's should know what real Hip Hop is all about. I'm tired of hearing guy's with no lyrical ability going platinum.
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Mart1n_O wrote:
one of my fav favourite EC bands)
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exaze wrote:
is this rdj?
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UrbanPurist wrote:
@jae_moon lol wtf is wrong with ur ears ... the flow is innovative, the beats are slammin and the wordplay ranks among the best i ever heard ... dead serious is CLASSIC
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evol1986 wrote:
jae__moon means business
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jae__moon wrote:
dead serious is nothing but "liggity jiggy wiggity" for almost 40 minutes straight. i almost can't stand it.
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GHOST1PRODD wrote:
oh man loved this shit when it first drop't,somethings you just don't out grow. you lovin this vibe check this link! http://www.youtube.com/user/quincy25100?feature=mhsn#p/a/u/0/nRc8wOqyOq4
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Splif4d wrote:
хороши
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Mart1n_O wrote:
awesome!
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MightyMouse415 wrote:
Dead Serious is pretty much unreal.wow.
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soneproductions wrote:
Y'all held S.One down as a teen!!!! Still love DAS EFX All DAY
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a_theorem wrote:
good stuff
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GRAFFULTRAS wrote:
..I'MA FREAKT LIKE DIS I'MA FREAKIT LIKE DAAAAAAAAT
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sjm26b wrote:
they were so dope with their piglatin slang
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