Released October 25, 1994 Length 40:46 Release date 25 October 1994 | Recorded 1993-1994 | |
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Similar FU Don't Take It Personal, Fu‐Schnickens’ Greatest Hits, Shaq Diesel | ||
Fu schinckens nervous breakdown 1994
Nervous Breakdown is the second and last studio album from American hip hop group Fu-Schnickens, released October 25, 1994 on Jive Records.
Contents
The album peaked at number eighty-one on the Billboard 200 chart.
Release and reception
Nervous Breakdown peaked at eighty-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached the nineteenth spot on the R&B Albums chart. In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote:
You want an inkling of how grim things are for black kids right now, try and find another current rap record that manages to mean a damn thing without slipping into gangsta suicide or Afrocentric cryptoracism. Since this one sank faster than Public Enemy, maybe it doesn't mean much either, but to me the East Flatbush trio radiates the hope hip hop was full of not so long ago. There's deep pleasure in their vocal tradeoffs and hard, wryly textured tracks. There's wordwise grace in rhymes that balance B-movie fantasy against everyday brutality without denial or despair. And there's joy in the nonpareil skills of reformed backward rapper Chip Fu. He coughs, he hiccups, he snorts, he stutters; he whinnies, wheezes, wows, and flutters.
Bret Love at AllMusic wrote in retrospect that Nervous Breakdown showcased "an improved lyrical maturity among all three members" on a record that was "a frenzied, fast-paced roller coaster ride of originality that doesn't let up until the last song ends."
Singles
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
Personnel
Information taken from AllMusic.
Songs
1Breakdown4:09
2Sum Dum Munkey3:48
3Visions (20/20)5:14