Listen to The Originators

Queens representatives who honed their production skills (producing for Kurious, Fat Joe, and Chi Ali) before unleashing their lyrical fury on 1993’s INTOXICATED DEMONS EP, the Beatnuts have been a mainstay in the NYC underground since the late 1980s. For Psycho Les, Juju, and sometime member Al Tariq, the subject matter never strays far from blunts, booze, hoes, and gunplay. Though their ribald, devilish content may come off as rather limited in imagination, their intricate, jazz-infused production work is anything but.