Nervous Breakdown (album)
album by Fu-Schnickens
Nervous Breakdown is the second and final studio album by American hip hop group Fu-Schnickens. It was released October 25, 1994, via Jive Records. The album was produced by Rod 'KP' Kirkpatrick, Diamond D, K-Cut, Jim Nice, and Lyvio G. It 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 Top R&B/Hip-Hop 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.
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