Black Rock

• The explosive new album from East Coast legends Onyx mixes hardcore vocal delivery with heavy guitar riffs to create the most aggressive release of the group's career! • Onyx's previous effort #Turndafucup earned the group rave reviews for its ambition and experimentation, which inspired Fredro & Sticky Fingaz to new levels of ferocity on this album! • Catch Onyx at a special concert performance called The Heart Of Hip Hop (Classics Edition) along with Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, Rakim and more Feb 17 in NY followed by a show with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on Feb 23 in NJ! 20 YEARS OF HARDCORE HIP HOP In 1993, years before anyone told ya’ to “get up off them goddamn diamonds”, South Jamaica, Queens, craziest Bal-Hed sons, ONYX, were already busy takin’ some of the Golden Era’s loot and running with it to new heights, stamping the term “hardcore” in its darkest terms upside hip hop’s head with their seminal, trailblazing platinum debut, Bacdafucup. The iconic cover image of four bald, angry-lookin’ niggas, their legendary “MadFace” logo, a shoulder-strapped automatic and a menacing boot-tread took rap to a world that could “Slam” in an era where even looking at someone wrong at a rap show could get you gone. Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz, SonSee and the late brother Big DS didn’t break the rules: they scared them the fuck away. Twenty years and several full-length underground classics later, there is still nothing so raw in live rap as getting tossed into the barrier by the smiling, sweating, maniacal fans swarming the pit, to find yourself face-to-face with the ever-Mad Faced, ever Bal-Heded ‘Dro and Sticky. Face to face with loud, abrasive greatness, you might just find yourself lucky enough to embrace a boot to the temple when Sticky stage-dives, or swimming with the sharks to make waves for the crowd surfers while you “Throw Ya Gunz”. ONYX made boom bap gangsta, gave metal street cred, and exposed the kinship of hip hop and punk rock cultures to a wider global audience on the strength of their delivery and the look in their eye that said this was no gimmick, motherfucker – all under the guidance of their mentor and producer, the departed architect Jam Master Jay. With the Snowgoons-produced Cuzo LP hot on the way and the custom-built hybrid project Black Rock in the aisles and their newly-minted international “100Mad” click growing stronger, 2018 sees ONYX bring it back-da-fuck up in your mad face. Watch out, ‘cuz they’re coming for head-blood.

25 years removed from the release of their debut album, Onyx — now a duo comprised solely of Fredro Starr and Sticky Fingaz — are still as j...