![]() And all were raised on the traditional hip-hop of the ’80s and early ’90s. All three were New York City natives, though Len spent many of his formative years in Newark, New Jersey. Len” Smythe, Company Flow held the mainstream music industry in utter contempt. Comprised of rapper Justin “Bigg Jus” Ingleton, rapper/producer Jaime “ El-P” Meline, and DJ/producer Leonard “Mr. Then groups like Company Flow came along and started pushing the boundaries outwards again.Īnti-pop sentiments were hardly new to hip-hop during the mid ’90s, but Company Flow raised them to a high art form. And to some degree, the music was collapsing in on itself, coalescing around a single point of sameness. You could turn on the radio or watch MTV and be faced with a constant stream of hip-hop artists, but everything seemed watered down. Rap had never enjoyed such mainstream exposure, acclaim and acceptance, but it appeared that the music was in danger of losing its soul. ![]() Happy 25th Anniversary to Company Flow’s debut album Funcrusher Plus, originally released July 22, 1997.įor some, hip-hop was in a dire place in the summer of 1997.
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