El Pus

{{Short description|US rap rock group}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = El Pus

| background = group_or_band

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| origin = Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

| genre = Rap rock, hip hop

| label = Virgin/EMI Records

| associated_acts = CUFROCK, Reel Big Fish, Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer, American Hi-Fi, Punchline

|website = [http://www.myspace.com/elpus www.myspace.com/elpus]

| current_members = Cufrock
Cosmo
Tchaka "Kiko" Diallo
Johnny Rock
Cosmo
Woodchuck
YoungPete Alexander

| past_members = Anthony David
Enrique

|

}}

El Pus (pronounced El Poose) was an American rap rock group from Atlanta.

The members formed the group in the early 1990s and released their first album Strange Cowboys in 1998 under Vagabond Productions. Rapper Speech of Arrested Development worked in the studio with the group, and Virgin Records signed El Pus and released the group's major label debut, Hoodlum Rock—Vol. 1 in 2005.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p694072/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=El Pus > Biography|last=Jeffries|first=David|year=2005|publisher=allmusic|accessdate=2009-06-01}} Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone panned the album.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/elpus/albums/album/6962491/review/7089039/hoodlum_rock_vol_1_the_bogard|title=El Pus: Hoodlum Rock (Vol. 1: The Bogard)|last=Hoard|first=Christian|date=2005-03-24|magazine=Rolling Stone|accessdate=2009-06-01}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} David Jeffries of allmusic.com praised the album, considering it a combination of hard rock and crunk rap.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r730186|pure_url=yes}}|title=Hoodlum Rock, Vol. 1 > Overview|last=Jeffries|first=David|date=2005-03-01|publisher=allmusic|access-date=2009-06-01}}