Right off the tour we came back and that's when you saw the realness around you again. As Sonee explains: "The fast pace of the rap game had us all wild and not really thinking. Overwhelmed by their newly-found fame and success, coming off the high of touring and being embraced around the world, the group felt the need to put things back into perspective. Performing along side the likes of Hip-Hop greats such as KRS-ONE and Run-DMC, Onyx was quickly boosted into an elite level of stardom usually reserved for the most revered and tenured of artists. Riding the amazing success of Bacdafucup, Onyx spent the next two years on tour, showcasing their unparalleled and uncompromising energetic stage show for millions of newly-dedicated fans. Dre's would-be classic The Chronic and slamdancing themselves on stage to accept their award. Receiving wide-spread industry adulation for their spirited and reveling music, Onyx captured Soul Train 's Best Rap Album honors that year by beating out Dr. From collaborating on rhymes while cutting hair to battling potential contenders on line at such clubs as the Building and Red Zone, Onyx honed and developed their collective talents at every opportunity they had, a practice which eventually caught the discerning eye of the legendary Jam Master Jay.Ĭomplete with an album's worth of material, Onyx were introduced to Jay and subsequently signed to a record single at JMJ Records, which extended to an EP, and ultimately led to the climactic producing of Bacdufucup Selling over two million copies, Onyx 's debut album forcefully grabbed the industry by its reigns and steered it Into new grounds of Hip-Hop potency. Started off in the chairs of a small Queens barber shop in '91, the beginnings of a new rejuvenated Hip-Hop renaissance were well underway. Not since the primal unified chants of 1992's potent "Throw your Gunz," has a group, so convincingly, been able to capture the raw rage of ghetto angst and translate It into a musical relevance for the world to see than Onyx. Also, they would begin doing performances in support of their singles as well as for the demos and EP’s that they had made along the way. The single would gain them radio play around the United States and would get name out to many.
The group would create their first single in 1990 called Ah, and WE Do It Like This, which was a jazzy album set to voice but was said to be nothing like what they would ever release in the future. After they would get their rhythm and style, the group would start recording their music in the late 1980’s and be one of the major contributors to the hip hop world of today. Rap, or hip hop, as it is also known, had started to take hold as an up and coming style of music shared by many in the more urban areas at the time although it has become a household genre of music of the present. They would form an alliance with one another and begin recording beats and rhythms that were put to words in a new music genre that had begun taking the east coast cities by storm. X1 was also signed to Mike Tyson’s Tyson Records in 2000.The group of early pioneering rap artists known as Onyx would get their start in the city of Brooklyn New York in the year of 1988. X1 was excited that he was finally get his shot. They done let me in the door so it’s on and poppin’.”
A lot of people tried to hold me back but it’s a wrap now cause I’m in. “I’m just trying to add what I got to it, you knwo what I’m sayin’? I want to do my litle damage too, you know what I’m sayin’? It’s been along time coming man, you know what I’m sayin’? People about to know the truth though. The rapper was featured on all of Onyx’s album and even appeared on the song, “React” with 50 Cent. X1 released his last album, Young, Rich, & Gangsta, in 2006 and he was most recently signed to Ball ‘R Records which is based in Las Vegas. The causeof death wasn’t immediately known but according to sources, it appears the rapper committed suicide. Onyx affiliate X1, who was also the younger brother of Onyx’s Sticky Fingaz, was found dead in Los Angeles early Thursday morning, July 5th. Onyx affiliate and up-and-coming rapper X1 found dead in Las Vegas….
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