@@stuntedgrowthmusic Naa they had 2 good classic albums and shut em down was cool but Sticky and Fredro kicking Sonsee out of the group out of jealousy ruined onyx after that all of their albums were garbage.
@@maroon9273 I prefer Shut 'Em Down '98. Rob & Vic was one stellar piece of storytelling. And I can still recite Sticky's verse from Street N---uz by heart. Sticky Fingaz and Method Man's duet on The Worst was memorable.
Yeah he really is bugging. Sonsee was dope but it's a reason why on every track we waited for Sticky to go last because he would body the track. He bodied songs with Eminem and Pun on them. Sticky was easily the nicest out of them.
@@therealmarlonbellamyI felt their third album was bittersweet cause neither RZA or Prince Paul wanted to come back and do another album. Only Frukwan and Too Poetic and he had cancer 🤦🏾♂️. #RIPTooPoetic
I saw Onyx perform last year. They are legendary performers and had it rockin. If anyone thinks they're a one trick pony, they obviously never heard Sticky Fingaz debut album 'Black Trash'. That album is classic and he got into some real creative ideas for songs.
@@constablekennedy7705 Fredro was caught lying about Brandy. Fredro and Sticky are frauds. They weren't drug dealers they were dancers back in the day. Lord Jamar remembered seeing them. They weren't tough killer guys before onyx.
@@HipHopEmperorSalute Most rappers aren't who they say they are. Biggie mother once said that most of his raps were lies and he never ate sardines for dinner 😂
“If it was a fifth then we’d all be stoned/ but if don’t drink and drive how the F im ah get home/ and I can’t stop smoking weed cuz I ain’t no quitter/ but since its killing my brain cells maybe I should reconsider.
I don’t know if I agree with this because their first 3 albums are classics and they All had some MONSTER singles on them. They had a pretty good run in the 90’s and their single “Last Dayz” had the streets on FIRE for months. They had their time and honestly I feel like they don’t get enough acknowledgement for what they contributed to Hip Hop.
You think they had their time by ‘98? When DMX came in Def Jam didn’t need Onyx anymore which was fucked up. Once they left they should’ve just decide to regroup in a few years doing solo joints for now. Cause “Bacdafucup Part 2” and “Triggonometry” were terrible albums let’s put it like that. The only album was good in the late 2000’s was “The Cold Case Files” which was a compilation off all the songs that weren’t on albums even Vol.2 was dope
My mom took me to the music store to get their first album, it was a BIG parental advisory sticker on it she said nope 👎🏾. She let me get their second album though!
These evil streets is ROUGH….either roll with the rush or get RUSHED….CAUSE ALL WE GOT IZ US!!! That was my favorite ONYX album. Brings back memories im queuing that joint UP
@@91Definite you ain’t got it in yahhhh I’m born to be a sinna as I move through these evil New York streets like grease like cmon I was inspired by Onyx to have aggression when I emcee on my songs 😤🔥
Another factor that contributed to the stunted growth of ONYX was the huge success of DMX in the late 90s and early 2000s. DMX was able to singlehandedly do what ONYX did as a group with his raw grimmy gutter energy. But what separated DMX from ONYX was that DMX had much more authentic street credibility with his traumatic childhood upbringing and criminal record, DMX had the emotional range similar to the late TUPAC when he used to bare his soul and be vulnerable, and DMX was much more spiritually introspective than ONYX ever was. Since DMX was on the same record label as ONYX, the record label did not have much need for ONYX since they had DMX, because DMX filled that void that TUPAC left when he was assassinated.
@@poloregal Yes it did have DMX on it because DMX was the hot new rapper that year that was taking over hardcore rap in the mainstream. That was the last song that ONYX did that was a hit. After that song, it was ALL DMX in 1998. And DMX dominated hardcore rap music for the next five years after that (1998-2003), while the popularity of ONYX was going down around that time. The song SHUT EM DOWN was a hit for ONYX, but the biggest hit song for ONYX was their song called SLAM back in 1993.
@@poloregalyeah but at the time DMX album just came out the Onyx’s third album the month after. DMX’s first album reach sales while “Shut Em Down” hardly sold! I feel like Def Jam shouldn’t have let Onyx go for DMX. Cause around from 98’ to 2003 that was basically X’s run. He was getting tired out too
@@91Definite Yes, after 2003, DMX started to decline with his rap career and movie career as well. This was mostly due to the fact that his drug addiction and incarceration bids was starting to overshadow and interfere with his music and movie career and even his marriage at that time and DMX was never able to recapture his dominance in mainstream hardcore rap. And unfortunately DMX damn near died broke with very little to show for financially from the huge success that he had in the late 90s and early 2000s. But even without drug addictions, very few rappers maintain mainstream rap dominance beyond five years unless they venture off into other things like acting, music producing, movie directing, owning businesses, or starting their own record labels.
You're half right. Def Jam gave onyx the shaft via Irv gotti, who was the executive producer of DMX debut album, with that clout and irv pushing hard for his own label through Def Jam while also pushing hard for ja rule, iT left little room for onyx to continue to get pushed. So all that promotional money was given to irv, and irv being a greedy selfish, used it on his protégé off the back of good artist like Redman, onyx, even DMX to a degree.
Nonsense Eminem has never in his life rocked shoes like prime Red or Sticky. All this album blah blah blah is half the story. Nobody said an Eminem show was incredible in his prime but he got the praise of GOAT performers due to his skin
@@alstone5005I understand what u saying but check what Sticky be saying go listen to Purse Snatchaz off their second album which is they best album “All We Got Iz Us” and listen to Sticky’s third verse he rhymed everything with “ion” like that’s incredible Sticky is definitely in my top 10 emcees bro u have no idea I get Eminem got a lot of dope lyrics but give everybody else a listen too Em is not the only emcee in the world you know this 💯
@@rayedmonds6108I remember that joint “Off the Wall” really the only song him and Em did 💯! That was childhood right there I used to play the Klumps soundtrack a lot!
All we got iz us was my favorite album sonee was a beast. Also the song judgement night with bio Hazzard from same name movie was fire. Can't forget thangz changed from sunset park soundtrack. Thanks brother. Nice video
@@rayedmonds6108Gang Green was some ill kids X1 was with too! “I’ll Murder You” video was good and them kids were rapping like another Onyx but more of their own style in a way 💯!
@@rayedmonds6108 RIP X1, but yeah Gang Green I feel didn’t last long I think some of them turned to Yung Onyx and X1 was with them too but something had happened to the group. Fredro and Sticky never talked about it
This group started the east coast renneissance era. I wish big ds would've stayed longer. Plus, Chyskillz been part of the production team on we got itz us and shut em down (both albums should've went platinum). Baccdafucup part 2 came out too late and had it been came out two to three years earlier. It would've done much bette.
Yeah they should’ve been with Ruff Ryders but I think that shit would’ve upset Fredro and I could see both him and DMX would’ve had friction. It was told that X thought they wasn’t live enough than he was
They had big cometition. Wu Tang come along along almost around the same time ( '93 ) And a rivalry started...Both Groups at one point came to blows.... They settled it out then some years later both groups did a song together called " The wrorse "
They did? I never knew Wu Tang and Onyx came to blows 🤔. It’s three of them vs 9 of them wtf 🤦🏾♂️?! It’s no surprise Fredro had beef with G-Unit that’s true at the Source Awards
"All We Got Iz Us" is a criminally underrated album. Eminem really put people onto "Last Dayz" in 8 Mile but the whole album was masterfully produced and the tracks flowed in sequence from start to finish. Fredro does not get the props he deserves as a producer, either.
@@legendarytonyclutchI thought I was the only one that liked it. Everyone praises Black Trash, and for good reason. Nobody talks about FireStarr though and it had heat.
By the time I was in middle school in 98, Shut Em Down was HEAVY in my rotation. "The Worst" was literally my favorite song with Wu-Tang. I do believe the type casting of songs like "Slam" "Last Days" "Throw Ya Gunz" made them too comfortable in that lane. Songs like "Overshine" and Sticky on the "Black Trash" album which showed he could be introspective and funny and Starr on songs like "True Colors" showed they could have been more diverse.
@@shauncameron8390 No doubt. I think the problem was all their singles were aggressive, all black, bald heads, with the mad faces so if you never bought the albums you missed there diversity.
They had a great impact and career, nothing stunted about them. Fred and sticky made the group. Their was no need for them to change. Rock groups don't change.
Our say this. the first time i saw onyx on the box the music channel you control. slam would come on regularly. i had they tape and cd. But last year broke my heart. Seeing them perform live. being 35 yrs old. trying to meet them seeing them eye to eye. They ignored me. it broke my heart. Like someone took the wind out me.
Fredro and Sticky being snakes kicking out Sonsee ended onyx. They were never the same after that. Everything after the shut em down album was garbage.
@@Kaveman79 Yes, Sticky and fredro are cousins. They were jealous of Sonsee. I stopped supporting them a long time ago. They got called out by other rappers for being fake. Onyx ain't onyx without Sonsee.
Wait a second they wanted to kick Sonny out the group? If that’s the case Sonny was the third member to even out Onyx! I can’t even listen to they new albums without Sonny’s voice
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Onyx were Artificial studio gangsters💯💯 They never got love in Southside. They were barbers at the Gertz mall lol. Sticky's name was Tropical and Fredro used to be a dancer with yellow hair! These are all FACTS!
If they was like Native Tongues in the beginning? Why change the image to bald headed street niggas? “Ah and we do it like this” was more like Native Tongues 😂
Damn…so they never gotten in trouble with the law or nothing? It felt like “All We Got Iz Us” was so real especially with Fredro talking about selling drugs and shit 😂!
I consider Darvin Ham, as a player at Texas Tech, "The Fifth ONYX!" His dunking, especially that glass shatter on North Carolina, ("Slam Harder! ONYX or Vince Carter?") is the symbol of that! (LOL!)
The best 2 in the group in my opinion are still going strong every time they put something new out im their for it im glad they haven't changed their style as thats when i stop listening to alot of artists
Wu-Tang Clan would soon overshadow Onyx as NY's premier Hardcore group. And with Mobb Deep, M.O.P., Boot Camp Click & LOTUG on the rise, it was crowded on the East Coast. And just like Das EFX, they were victims of their early success & not being able to duplicate it!! With the Rap game going back & forth from East Coast to West Coast, Gangsta Rap would take the glory. And with the emergence of the South in the late 90's, airplay & record sales were hard to come by for most NY & Cali artists...
I feel like during the 2000’s they should’ve regroup in 2006. Cause NY had LOX, Nas,Jay-Z, Papoose, 50 cent and a few others dropping but we was missing Onyx! They waited in 2014 to come back with a new album. By that time Sonsee left
What stunted their growth is their cross over single, Slam.Which was catchy af. But became a massive pop song that they could not top. Same s8&& happened with Cypress Hill with Insane In the brain. Once a street hip hop group get a cross over song, their mainstream career has hit it's peak. They went down as fast as they went up. Which is a shame. Their All We Got Iz Us 2nd album was their best album of their life. Their 3rd album was a piece of hit and miss s8*&*. DMX and Wu Tang features are the only reasons I bought that 3rd album.
That makes sense…If Onyx just regrouped after “Shut Em Down” and didn’t do Bacdafucup II and Trigonometry? Give themselves time? Do solo shit? Came back around 2006? I think that would’ve been a better idea. Cause at that time? The south was running shit T.I., Gucci, Jeezy, Jay-Z, Boosie…NY needed Onyx right there 💯! But they returned in 2014 a bit too late
Interesting. Respectfully, Fredro Starr had a flip mouth and he rubbed folks the wrong way. You _cain't_ just be outspoken and think you gon get the credit, promotion, etcetera that you deserve. One wrong word and yo' career could hit that ice block, indefinitely. You live and you learn, but WHEW! Anyhow, we all know 1993's _Bacdafucup_ so I do not need to pick it apart, but I'd like to give a lil' shine to 1995's _All We Got Iz Us._ WHEW! Baby, that LP was so fuckin' bomb. It did not get the promo that _Bacdafucup_ received. What a wasted effort. I'm tellin' you somethin'. You gotta give it up to Onyx though. They took they brand overseas and sell out every single time. They're well respected in the European marketplace.
NGL the beginning had me laughing. Sticky Fingaz...Sticky Fingaz...Sticky Fingaz 😅. I don't think it was intentional but still. Last Dayz is one of my favorites from Onyx. All We Got Iz Us is very underrated
No doubt legends in the game, Slam one of the greatest hip hop songs ever, but there was still room for Onyx to be the best rap group ever!
@@stuntedgrowthmusic Naa they had 2 good classic albums and shut em down was cool but Sticky and Fredro kicking Sonsee out of the group out of jealousy ruined onyx after that all of their albums were garbage.
Why does every group have to be the greatest ever? They were successful, notable and have classics
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"Sticky Fingaz...Sticky Fingaz...Sticky Fingaz" I was like wtf 🤣
That shit was weird asf, I think that had to be A.I. 😂
I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA CUT TO STICKY FINGAZ
😂😂😂 some candyman shit
lol tru…
got me to...
NGL the beginning of the video had me thinking sticky fingaz was gonna come outta my phone. 😂
man i was
like wtf was tht???
Hilarious. He did say it 3x lmao
@@MrWright2 nigga was mic checking or sumn idk lmao
I was literally on some Candyman sh*t 😂
That shit was weird asf. The creator of this video is goofy for that
Had 'Bacdafucup' on repeat back in the day. That intro beat is etched in my memory for life.
"All we got iz us" is one of the most slept on albums in hip hop history
Very underappreciated album. Peak album of onyx.
@@beejay271
Factsss
Facts!!!!
@@maroon9273
I prefer Shut 'Em Down '98. Rob & Vic was one stellar piece of storytelling. And I can still recite Sticky's verse from Street N---uz by heart. Sticky Fingaz and Method Man's duet on The Worst was memorable.
Hell yea it is that album is a classic non mainstream catered new york album.Sticky Fingaz was really shining on that album
Stickey by far was the most skilled out of onyx
That's debatable
Sticky is vicious! But why everyone play out Sonsee like he wasn’t roundhousing shit on the second album?
@sfactor7 Very debatable
Yeah he really is bugging. Sonsee was dope but it's a reason why on every track we waited for Sticky to go last because he would body the track. He bodied songs with Eminem and Pun on them. Sticky was easily the nicest out of them.
Sticky is an underrated story teller too. Incredibly visual with his flow
The narrator was testing the myth of saying "Sticky Fingaz" 3 times and he'll jump through your screen!
Their All We Got Iz Us album had me in the chokehold. You should do Grave Diggaz next.
@@therealmarlonbellamy agreed. RIP Poetic.
@@landismithCOJ I had their first two albums
All We Got Iz Us was an Incredible time in Hip Hop. And GraveDiggaz first album was fire!
@@therealmarlonbellamyI felt their third album was bittersweet cause neither RZA or Prince Paul wanted to come back and do another album. Only Frukwan and Too Poetic and he had cancer 🤦🏾♂️. #RIPTooPoetic
Fredro arguing with charlamange was a classic moment in rap
I saw Onyx perform last year. They are legendary performers and had it rockin. If anyone thinks they're a one trick pony, they obviously never heard Sticky Fingaz debut album 'Black Trash'. That album is classic and he got into some real creative ideas for songs.
Right but why didn’t Sticky made a sequel of that?
Fredro Starr turning up on ‘Charlamagne’ is still hilarious to Me. 💀
😂
@@constablekennedy7705 Fredro was caught lying about Brandy. Fredro and Sticky are frauds. They weren't drug dealers they were dancers back in the day. Lord Jamar remembered seeing them. They weren't tough killer guys before onyx.
Fredro wasn't gonna bust a grape,him or Sticky,both are all mouth and twist their faces all up to try to scare some one instead of fighting. LOL.
@@HipHopEmperorSaluteThey were also barbers.
@@HipHopEmperorSalute Most rappers aren't who they say they are. Biggie mother once said that most of his raps were lies and he never ate sardines for dinner 😂
They are one of the greatest rap groups of all time
Sticky Fingaz definitely the best rapper n the group and one of the most underrated artists
“Thinking about killing myself/I might as well/but they might not sell weed in hell”
- Sticky Fingaz
"And that's where I'm going cause the devil's inside of me,
It make rob from my own nationality"
Sticky was really on some dark shit! Despite “All We Got Iz Us” is an incredible album? It really didn’t have radio friendly songs
“If it was a fifth then we’d all be stoned/ but if don’t drink and drive how the F im ah get home/ and I can’t stop smoking weed cuz I ain’t no quitter/ but since its killing my brain cells maybe I should reconsider.
RIP Big DS
🙏 🥀 🪦
I don’t know if I agree with this because their first 3 albums are classics and they All had some MONSTER singles on them. They had a pretty good run in the 90’s and their single “Last Dayz” had the streets on FIRE for months. They had their time and honestly I feel like they don’t get enough acknowledgement for what they contributed to Hip Hop.
You think they had their time by ‘98? When DMX came in Def Jam didn’t need Onyx anymore which was fucked up. Once they left they should’ve just decide to regroup in a few years doing solo joints for now. Cause “Bacdafucup Part 2” and “Triggonometry” were terrible albums let’s put it like that. The only album was good in the late 2000’s was “The Cold Case Files” which was a compilation off all the songs that weren’t on albums even Vol.2 was dope
Their first 2 albums are CLASSICS!!! and sticky fingers Black trash album is highly underrated.
One of my favorite groups growing up in the 90s I still listening to them until this day
Sticky Fingaz was the best out of all of them, and is criminally underrated as an Emcee. He is a HIGH LEVEL emcee.
Awesome video!
Please do Gravediggaz next
And flatlinerz lol
My mom took me to the music store to get their first album, it was a BIG parental advisory sticker on it she said nope 👎🏾. She let me get their second album though!
Lol
One of my favorite 90’s hip hop groups. I’ve had slam as a ringtone for 17 years now and I don’t ever plan on changing it! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
These evil streets is ROUGH….either roll with the rush or get RUSHED….CAUSE ALL WE GOT IZ US!!! That was my favorite ONYX album. Brings back memories im queuing that joint UP
Only 🥷 that can kill me is the 🥷in the mirror 😤🔥
“…YOU DON’T WANT NO PARTS OF THIS 🗣️!”
@@91Definite you ain’t got it in yahhhh I’m born to be a sinna as I move through these evil New York streets like grease like cmon I was inspired by Onyx to have aggression when I emcee on my songs 😤🔥
@@91Definite plus it’s their best album me and my niggaz bump that shit like crazyyy all the beats were just dark and iLLLL 🔥🔥🔥
@@Taz_RektahI’m telling you that album is a artifact of 90’s NY 💯
Another factor that contributed to the stunted growth of ONYX was the huge success of DMX in the late 90s and early 2000s. DMX was able to singlehandedly do what ONYX did as a group with his raw grimmy gutter energy. But what separated DMX from ONYX was that DMX had much more authentic street credibility with his traumatic childhood upbringing and criminal record, DMX had the emotional range similar to the late TUPAC when he used to bare his soul and be vulnerable, and DMX was much more spiritually introspective than ONYX ever was. Since DMX was on the same record label as ONYX, the record label did not have much need for ONYX since they had DMX, because DMX filled that void that TUPAC left when he was assassinated.
True.
@@poloregal Yes it did have DMX on it because DMX was the hot new rapper that year that was taking over hardcore rap in the mainstream. That was the last song that ONYX did that was a hit. After that song, it was ALL DMX in 1998. And DMX dominated hardcore rap music for the next five years after that (1998-2003), while the popularity of ONYX was going down around that time. The song SHUT EM DOWN was a hit for ONYX, but the biggest hit song for ONYX was their song called SLAM back in 1993.
@@poloregalyeah but at the time DMX album just came out the Onyx’s third album the month after. DMX’s first album reach sales while “Shut Em Down” hardly sold! I feel like Def Jam shouldn’t have let Onyx go for DMX. Cause around from 98’ to 2003 that was basically X’s run. He was getting tired out too
@@91Definite Yes, after 2003, DMX started to decline with his rap career and movie career as well. This was mostly due to the fact that his drug addiction and incarceration bids was starting to overshadow and interfere with his music and movie career and even his marriage at that time and DMX was never able to recapture his dominance in mainstream hardcore rap. And unfortunately DMX damn near died broke with very little to show for financially from the huge success that he had in the late 90s and early 2000s. But even without drug addictions, very few rappers maintain mainstream rap dominance beyond five years unless they venture off into other things like acting, music producing, movie directing, owning businesses, or starting their own record labels.
You're half right. Def Jam gave onyx the shaft via Irv gotti, who was the executive producer of DMX debut album, with that clout and irv pushing hard for his own label through Def Jam while also pushing hard for ja rule, iT left little room for onyx to continue to get pushed. So all that promotional money was given to irv, and irv being a greedy selfish, used it on his protégé off the back of good artist like Redman, onyx, even DMX to a degree.
I still bump them till this day
All G.O.A.T.S
You FINALLY did a video on Onyx… Thanks, Bro’!!!🙏🏽🦾💯
Sticky N Redman both gave Eminem a run for his money...n we talking about a prime Eminem
Redman yes. Sticky couldn’t even hang with Meth on “first things first.” GOOGLE IT!
REMEMBER ME???!!!!
That Red/Em collab on the Nutty Professor 2 soundtrack is an under the radar classic.
Nonsense Eminem has never in his life rocked shoes like prime Red or Sticky. All this album blah blah blah is half the story. Nobody said an Eminem show was incredible in his prime but he got the praise of GOAT performers due to his skin
@@alstone5005I understand what u saying but check what Sticky be saying go listen to Purse Snatchaz off their second album which is they best album “All We Got Iz Us” and listen to Sticky’s third verse he rhymed everything with “ion” like that’s incredible Sticky is definitely in my top 10 emcees bro u have no idea I get Eminem got a lot of dope lyrics but give everybody else a listen too Em is not the only emcee in the world you know this 💯
@@rayedmonds6108I remember that joint “Off the Wall” really the only song him and Em did 💯! That was childhood right there I used to play the Klumps soundtrack a lot!
Onyx should have united with the south during the Crunk era. Also with Memphis with their "get buck" music.
Nah. You’re being SILLY 😌
In what way? The styles comprehend and make sense
You wanna hear that crunk shit from Onyx 😂! Listen to “Wet The Club” up 🤣!
All we got iz us was my favorite album sonee was a beast. Also the song judgement night with bio Hazzard from same name movie was fire. Can't forget thangz changed from sunset park soundtrack. Thanks brother. Nice video
RIP Chyskillz, Big DS, X-1 and Jam Master Jay.
Damn that shit still hurt 😞
stuntedgrowth if you reading this, all city and gang green was onyx artists that onyx had on their armee records label at the time
I remember All City, and Armee Records. I don't remember Gang Green though.
@@rayedmonds6108Gang Green was some ill kids X1 was with too! “I’ll Murder You” video was good and them kids were rapping like another Onyx but more of their own style in a way 💯!
@@91Definite I remember X1 from featuring on Onyx songs but I don't remember Gang Green at all. RIP X1
@@rayedmonds6108 RIP X1, but yeah Gang Green I feel didn’t last long I think some of them turned to Yung Onyx and X1 was with them too but something had happened to the group. Fredro and Sticky never talked about it
I remember All City. Overall they were meh but they had some bangers like The Actual and Who Dat.
one of my fav groupz. i luv their acting and movies too
This group started the east coast renneissance era. I wish big ds would've stayed longer. Plus, Chyskillz been part of the production team on we got itz us and shut em down (both albums should've went platinum). Baccdafucup part 2 came out too late and had it been came out two to three years earlier. It would've done much bette.
Yeah it did came out too late plus that shit was terrible. I say maybe 6 songs outta 12 tracks were decent
I Love Onyx!! been killing it for years with the music and acting !!!!!
They would of been a fine fit for Ruff Ryders if only Waah Dean allowed them in as well or part of MOP or Wu Tang Clan with RZA allowing them in yeah.
That link up would’ve been crazy
Yeah they should’ve been with Ruff Ryders but I think that shit would’ve upset Fredro and I could see both him and DMX would’ve had friction. It was told that X thought they wasn’t live enough than he was
Sticky got his own intro... 🤣
Please do more of these!
They had big cometition. Wu Tang come along along almost around the same time ( '93 ) And a rivalry started...Both Groups at one point came to blows.... They settled it out then some years later both groups did a song together called " The wrorse "
They did? I never knew Wu Tang and Onyx came to blows 🤔. It’s three of them vs 9 of them wtf 🤦🏾♂️?! It’s no surprise Fredro had beef with G-Unit that’s true at the Source Awards
@@91Definite Wu had it out with mad rappers. The others being Biggie and even Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
@@blackdragon6of course that was more Rae and Ghost against Biggie
This is where DMX got his style from R I P DMX
Their collab on Shut Em Down was hard as fuck. Especially X's verse.
I believe Russell Simmons said DMX was a 1 Man Onyx!!
@@dariusmcnair601I think he did say that
"Incoherent lie verses" is hilarious!
"All We Got Iz Us" is a criminally underrated album. Eminem really put people onto "Last Dayz" in 8 Mile but the whole album was masterfully produced and the tracks flowed in sequence from start to finish. Fredro does not get the props he deserves as a producer, either.
No doubt. Lots of folks don’t know Agallah is partially responsible for that sound, he co-produced
@@EFI4EYE
Agallah formerly known as 8-Off The Assassin.
Throw ya gunz was the SHIT in 7th grade. Black boy metal! 🎸
I have all of their solo albums !!!!
Fredo starr firestarr was dope
@@legendarytonyclutchI thought I was the only one that liked it. Everyone praises Black Trash, and for good reason. Nobody talks about FireStarr though and it had heat.
@@rayedmonds6108cause Fredro wasn’t with conscious at all at the time
Black trash is God tier......once Fredro changed his name the feel wasn't the same...for me ..
@@CurrentMoodCommentary369right Fredro solo discography isn’t the strongest
Onyx killed it with judgment night!
Definitely an underrated soundtrack
I thought the 3 reasons were "Sticky Fingaz" and then 11 minutes of silence!
Tha last dayz🔥🔥🔥💪🏾
Shut em down was an all out dope album by onyx
Nothing about their growth was stunted kid. Became a iconic rap group
I’m still listening to them 2024!
Sticky getting his @ss kicked on that MTV boxing match didn't exactly help the group's rep
he is still taking it out on his fans 30 years later.
"I tell Sticky, give me the cash before I empty 3! I'll beat your ass like that white boy on MTV!" - 50 Cent on How To Rob
@@rayedmonds610850 saw that whole fight 😂! Of course he’ll write that shit in his song 🤷🏾♂️! Just to clown Sticky 💯
Don't forget they was word that 50cent slapped fredostar
Sticky first album .....crazy
By the time I was in middle school in 98, Shut Em Down was HEAVY in my rotation. "The Worst" was literally my favorite song with Wu-Tang. I do believe the type casting of songs like "Slam" "Last Days" "Throw Ya Gunz" made them too comfortable in that lane. Songs like "Overshine" and Sticky on the "Black Trash" album which showed he could be introspective and funny and Starr on songs like "True Colors" showed they could have been more diverse.
Also songs like Rob & Vic showed that Onyx could tell a story.
@@shauncameron8390 No doubt. I think the problem was all their singles were aggressive, all black, bald heads, with the mad faces so if you never bought the albums you missed there diversity.
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Pretty much.
They had a great impact and career, nothing stunted about them. Fred and sticky made the group. Their was no need for them to change. Rock groups don't change.
Our say this. the first time i saw onyx on the box the music channel you control. slam would come on regularly. i had they tape and cd. But last year broke my heart. Seeing them perform live. being 35 yrs old. trying to meet them seeing them eye to eye. They ignored me. it broke my heart. Like someone took the wind out me.
Fredro and Sticky being snakes kicking out Sonsee ended onyx. They were never the same after that. Everything after the shut em down album was garbage.
I did not know that
@@Kaveman79 Yes, Sticky and fredro are cousins. They were jealous of Sonsee. I stopped supporting them a long time ago. They got called out by other rappers for being fake. Onyx ain't onyx without Sonsee.
I have to respectfully disagree cause they're album with Snowgoons #Wakedafucup was a banger of an album but it would've been even better with SonSee
Wait a second they wanted to kick Sonny out the group? If that’s the case Sonny was the third member to even out Onyx! I can’t even listen to they new albums without Sonny’s voice
@@SONOFPEARL315it needed Sonsee regardless he was the component for Onyx
Sticky Fingaz...Sticky Fingaz...Sticky Fingaz lmfaooooo
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Onyx were Artificial studio gangsters💯💯 They never got love in Southside. They were barbers at the Gertz mall lol. Sticky's name was Tropical and Fredro used to be a dancer with yellow hair! These are all FACTS!
I heard they was in some atcq chit before they flipped it hardcore
Thank you studio gangsters
If they was like Native Tongues in the beginning? Why change the image to bald headed street niggas? “Ah and we do it like this” was more like Native Tongues 😂
Damn…so they never gotten in trouble with the law or nothing? It felt like “All We Got Iz Us” was so real especially with Fredro talking about selling drugs and shit 😂!
I consider Darvin Ham, as a player at Texas Tech, "The Fifth ONYX!" His dunking, especially that glass shatter on North Carolina, ("Slam Harder! ONYX or Vince Carter?") is the symbol of that! (LOL!)
The best 2 in the group in my opinion are still going strong every time they put something new out im their for it im glad they haven't changed their style as thats when i stop listening to alot of artists
Onyx repping South Jamaica Queens to the fullest!
Russell Simmons actually said for a time they kept def jam afloat
"Gunna" out here snitchin and he ain't in the ground, he's still out here without consequence is beyond me😮😮😮
wtf happend in the beginning
Sticky getting beat up by the Euro on MTV didn't help either
They were both great, believable actors especially Fredo
they were a success. everyone not meant to last forever. idk why they would be looked at as stunted growth
I think they had a classic in the all we got is us album 🔥 big up onyx
Onyx is best rap group ever bacdafucup and all we got iz us and shut em down Three best classic onyx albums
I dnt kno where you get ur info frum, but Big DS had a cple of lines here & there back in tha days... Rest easy DS...
Believe it or not, it was ONYX, Geto Boys, Gravediggaz, Lord Infamous & such that got me into listening to Metal back in the 90s😄
THESE EVIL STREETZ IS ROUGH. THERE'S NO ONE WE CAN TRUST
A kinder, gentler, caring Onyx would've never worked!
That fredro and pac pic…., spicy
I still listen to onyx every week.i got onyx shut em down al um on my radio.classic.onyx is easily one my top 10 favorites groups ever.word up son
They always creeped me out 🥺
Love Onxy. The attitude. Bald heads and firse tunes.
I thought that it was three of them. I didn’t know that it was four of them
Sticky fingaz.. sticky fingaz... sticky fingaz.. 🪞👻
Sticky getting beat up on that MTV sports special ruined Onyx's street cred.
Wu-Tang Clan would soon overshadow Onyx as NY's premier Hardcore group. And with Mobb Deep, M.O.P., Boot Camp Click & LOTUG on the rise, it was crowded on the East Coast. And just like Das EFX, they were victims of their early success & not being able to duplicate it!! With the Rap game going back & forth from East Coast to West Coast, Gangsta Rap would take the glory. And with the emergence of the South in the late 90's, airplay & record sales were hard to come by for most NY & Cali artists...
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That is brilliant 😂
lil half dead and the twins ( from long beach)
This was the hardest WuTang Clan. They had me hype. Whole album no skips, skits and all
You mean they were the hardest besides Wu Tang 😂
I feel Instead of leaving the group, they should of done separate solo albums but still be Onyx. Like what the Wu did
I feel like during the 2000’s they should’ve regroup in 2006. Cause NY had LOX, Nas,Jay-Z, Papoose, 50 cent and a few others dropping but we was missing Onyx! They waited in 2014 to come back with a new album. By that time Sonsee left
Rip Chyskillz
Please do one on Vinnie Paz
What stunted their growth is their cross over single, Slam.Which was catchy af. But became a massive pop song that they could not top. Same s8&& happened with Cypress Hill with Insane In the brain. Once a street hip hop group get a cross over song, their mainstream career has hit it's peak. They went down as fast as they went up. Which is a shame. Their All We Got Iz Us 2nd album was their best album of their life. Their 3rd album was a piece of hit and miss s8*&*. DMX and Wu Tang features are the only reasons I bought that 3rd album.
That makes sense…If Onyx just regrouped after “Shut Em Down” and didn’t do Bacdafucup II and Trigonometry? Give themselves time? Do solo shit? Came back around 2006? I think that would’ve been a better idea. Cause at that time? The south was running shit T.I., Gucci, Jeezy, Jay-Z, Boosie…NY needed Onyx right there 💯! But they returned in 2014 a bit too late
Last Dayz 💿🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🔥🔥🔥
Interesting. Respectfully, Fredro Starr had a flip mouth and he rubbed folks the wrong way. You _cain't_ just be outspoken and think you gon get the credit, promotion, etcetera that you deserve. One wrong word and yo' career could hit that ice block, indefinitely. You live and you learn, but WHEW! Anyhow, we all know 1993's _Bacdafucup_ so I do not need to pick it apart, but I'd like to give a lil' shine to 1995's _All We Got Iz Us._ WHEW! Baby, that LP was so fuckin' bomb. It did not get the promo that _Bacdafucup_ received. What a wasted effort. I'm tellin' you somethin'. You gotta give it up to Onyx though. They took they brand overseas and sell out every single time. They're well respected in the European marketplace.
For years, many thought Stinky Fingaz and Bokeem Woodbine were the same person. 😂
Uh they are one of the greatest rap groups of all time. These evil streets is ROUGH!
They gritty, they rough, they raw, but they I never heard them degrade their own people.
Do one on slim thug
I'm surprised you didn't mention Fedro Starr and Sticky Fingahs are cousins
Throw your guns i air song and video Dope!
THOSE WERE MY BOYS!!!!!!
Onyx is one of my all-time favorite rap groups.
NGL the beginning had me laughing. Sticky Fingaz...Sticky Fingaz...Sticky Fingaz 😅. I don't think it was intentional but still. Last Dayz is one of my favorites from Onyx. All We Got Iz Us is very underrated
Didn't Sticky shoot a gun off in the air on stage at an awards show? Anybody else remember that? 😂🤦🏾♂️
I remember that from research