Los Angeles, California: New York rap legends Onyx follow up the success of their last single with another glimpse inside their forthcoming Lower East Side album, the blistering “Tear Shit Up.”
An incendiary presentiment for Lower East Side itself, an almost militaristic tattoo hooked around a compulsive chant, “Tear Shit Up” is classic hardcore, the aggressive gangsta rap that Onyx are known for, and which they’re not about to let slip now.
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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.
Their debut album Bacdafucup (say it quickly!) followed “Slam” to platinum status, with Source magazine electing it to their Top 100 Best Albums, and two further tracks spinning into the Billboard chart, “Throw Ya Gunz” and “Shiftee.”
Further albums (and their own Marvel comic!) followed before Onyx joined the Cleopatra family in 2014, with a blistering collection of unreleased songs, #TURNDAFUCUP; since then, Cleopatra’s X Ray subsidiary has released a stream of fresh Onyx releases, including 2021’s Onyx For Life, 2023’s Blood on Da X and last year’s Ghetto Anthems.
All leading up to The Lower East Side, their 156th album and 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 (“Tear Shit Up”!) that reach far beyond mere fury and protest.
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
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