Los Angeles, California: New York rap legends Onyx have already hit hard with their latest album, Lower East Side, but just in case you missed the excitement, the video for the opening track “Blk Sknhds” will certainly keep you up all night.
Directed by Onyx themselves, with Director of Photography Chris Rouse and editor Ryan Pinkall, “Blk Sknhds” is a compulsive melange of live and offstage shots, the imagery as hypnotic as the song’s own drifting rhythm and mantric hook.
As rapreviews.com put it, “[‘Blk Sknhds’ is]… a reference to the innovations and trends Onyx has brought to hip-hop: Bald-headed street rappers with the energy of hardcore heavy metal fans.”
It was back in 1988 that Fredro Starr formed Onyx, with Sticky Fingaz joining three years later. Since then, Onyx have remained among the most exhilarating bands on the hip hop scene, an incendiary marriage of hardcore confrontation, slam dancing (remember 1993’s platinum selling “Slam”?) and even onstage fighting.
They’ve never let up since, and Lower East Side is as hard-hitting as any of its predecessors. Exquisitely produced by Lord Nez it’s a truly excoriating rampage inspired by the chaos, aggression and rage that is so much a part of the modern world - but one that uniquely offers both solutions and vision that reach far beyond mere fury and protest.
DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/onyx_lowereastside
Adding to the excitement, Fredro’s no-holds-barred autobiography Bacdafucup: The Story Of Onyx was published just a couple of months ago; he has also just been interviewed by BigBoyTV, looking back over his career - and forward, too. It’s compulsive viewing.
Lower East Side Track List:
1. Blk Sknhds
2. We Will Rob U
3. America's Nightmare
4. Stray Shots
5. Tear Shit Up
6. Rock Boxx
7. Lower East Side
8. Get Wasted
9. Monsters Under My Bed
10. Over Petty Shit
11. NY What Up
12. Green Eggs and Spam
13. Creepin in da Park
