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The instrumental version of "Five Minutes of Funk" was used as the theme music of the WNYC TV show Video Music Box, [9] an influential early hip hop music video show. The album is out of print. On May 17, 2011, a deluxe version of Escape was released on CD with nine bonus tracks.
"Five Minutes of Funk" September 12, 2006 2006 Everybody Hates Chris (TV series), episode "Everybody Hates Rejection" "Five Minutes of Funk" October 1, 2006 2006 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (video game) "Freaks Come Out at Night" October 31, 2006 2006 Blood Diamond "From tha Streetz" December 8, 2006 2007 Illegal Tender "Friends"
The music video sees Jalil Hutchins wearing a feather earring, which he said was a replacement for a wig and "the closest thing I could get that was part funk, part freak." [1] The video features appearances from UTFO and Run-DMC, who are seen leaving a tour bus in Baltimore, [5] and future rapper Jermaine Dupri, then a dancer for Whodini. [6]
Chuck Creekmur, co-founder and CEO of AllHipHop, exclusively told theGrio that Whodini helped blaze a trail by refusing to be placed in any singular box. Hip-hop legend Ecstasy of rap group ...
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[8] The reviewer called "Freaks Come Out at Night" and "Five Minutes of Funk" classics, and said that "We Are Whodini" "distills the essence of the group more than the other groundbreaking tracks here, and still retains a sense of freshness." [8] Trouser Press found the album "airy without being simple", and called it appealing and innovative. [9]
John Fletcher, who was known by the stage name “Ecstasy” while performing with the early rap group Whodini, has died, according to the group’s Grand Master Dee and numerous friends. Whodini ...
Lawrence Smith (June 11, 1952 – December 19, 2014) was a pioneering American musician and hip hop record producer.He is best known for his co-productions (with Russell Simmons) of Run-DMC's Run-D.M.C. (1984) and King of Rock (1985) and his solo production of Whodini's Escape (1984) and Back in Black (1986).