The Beatnuts: Street Level

The Beatnuts
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 21, 1994 (1994-06-21)
RecordedMay 1993 – March 1994
Studio
GenreHip hop
Length58:21
Label
Producer
The Beatnuts chronology
Intoxicated Demons: The EP
(1993)
The Beatnuts
(1994)
Stone Crazy
(1997)
Singles from The Beatnuts
  1. "Props Over Here"
    Released: 1994
  2. "Hit Me with That"
    Released: 1994
  3. "Hellraiser"
    Released: 1994

The Beatnuts is the self-titled full-length debut album by American hip hop trio the Beatnuts. It was released on June 21, 1994, via Violator/Relativity Records.[1] The recording sessions took place at LGK Studios in Leonia, New Jersey, at Soundtrack Studios and Greene St. Recording in New York. The album was produced by the Beatnuts, except for one song produced by Lucien. It features guest appearances from Gab Gotcha of Triflicts, Grand Puba and Miss Jones. The album reached number 182 on the Billboard 200 and number 28 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums in the United States. Two singles were released: "Props Over Here", which peaked at number 39 on the US Hot Rap Singles, and "Hit Me with That". The music video for "Props Over Here" was directed by Abraham Lincoln Lim.

The album's title is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Street Level, because those words appear on the album cover; however, the words "Street Level" do not appear anywhere else on the CD (in the liner notes or on the CD spine label). The song "Psycho Dwarf" previously appeared on the 1993 Intoxicated Demons: The EP. It is the last Beatnuts album to include Fashion, who left the group to pursue a solo career under the alias Al' Tariq.

  1. ^ Hess, Mickey (November 25, 2009). Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313343216.