Funcrusher Plus [SEP] performer
Funcrusher Plus
Funcrusher Plus is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Company Flow. It was released on Rawkus Records in 1997. In 2009, it was re-released on Definitive Jux. The album has been recognized as "a landmark independent hip-hop release".
Critical reception.
AllMusic gave the album a perfect 5 star rating, and writer Steve Huey stated: "["Funcrusher Plus"] demands intense concentration, but also rewards it, and its advancement of hip-hop as
Plus" beats bear the mark of El-P's dusty-but-digital aesthetic, which even back then had the same sort of beautiful-dystopia "Blade Runner" feel that informed Cannibal Ox's "The Cold Vein" and his own "Fantastic Damage" a few years later."
Brian Coleman of "CMJ New Music Monthly" called it "the most important release of 1997 thus far." Joseph Schafer of Stereogum said, ""Funcrusher Plus" made for a hell of an opening salvo