Funcrusher

{{Short description|EP by Company Flow}}

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

{{Infobox album

| name = Funcrusher

| type = ep

| artist = Company Flow

| cover = Funcrusher.jpg

| released = 1995{{refn|name=Fcr5}}

| genre = Hip hop

| label = Official

| producer = * El-P

• Mr. Len

| year = 1995

| next_year = 1997

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Funcrusher

| type = EP

| single1 = 8 Steps to Perfection

| single1date = 1996

}}

| next_title = Funcrusher Plus

}}

Funcrusher is the debut EP by the New York underground hip hop group Company Flow. It was released in 1995 on the group's own label Official Recordings.{{refn|name=Fcr5|{{cite interview |last=Meline|first=Jaime (El{{nbh}}P)|subject-link=El-P|title=Indie Rapper Reseizes the Brooklyn Moment: El{{nbh}}P (Jaime Meline)|interviewer-last=Hermes|interviewer-first=Will|interviewer-link=Will Hermes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/arts/music/18herm.html|date=March 18, 2007|work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605065111/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/arts/music/18herm.html|archive-date=June 5, 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|section=El{{nbh}}P|location=Oxford/New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=9780195313734|year=2016|url= https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195313734.001.0001/acref-9780195313734|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230201133826/https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195313734.001.0001/acref-9780195313734|archive-date=February 1, 2023|url-status=live}}{{cite book|editor-last1=Goldsmith|editor-last2=Fonseca|editor-first1=Melissa|editor-first2=Anthony|year=2018|pages=133–135|location=Santa Barbara/California|publisher=ABC-Clio|isbn=978-0-313-35758-9 |url= https://www.abc-clio.com/products/b4237c/|title=Hip Hop Around the World: An Encyclopedia|section=Company Flow}}{{cite magazine|author-last=Shapiro|author-first=Peter|author-link=Peter Shapiro (journalist)|publisher=The Wire Magazine Ltd|location=London|pages=20–23|work=The Wire|title=Invisible Jukebox: El{{nbh}}P|date=May 2002|issue=219}}{{Cite AV media notes |title=Black Mamba Serums 2.0|date=2004 |url=https://bigdada.com/release/bigg-jus/black-mamba-serums-v2-0 |publisher=Big Dada|id=BD071 |location=London}}}} It sold well for an independently released record, with more than 30,000 copies sold despite only being available on vinyl.{{cite web|website=AllMusic|publisher=Netaktion LLC|location=Goshen|url= https://www.allmusic.com/artist/company-flow-mn0000096780/biography|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Company Flow Biography}} It was ranked sixth by album sales of its distributor Big Daddy Music by April 1996.{{cite news |title=Independent Distributors Top 20 Album Sales Rankings |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/90s/1996/CB-1996-04-20-OCR-Page-0016.pdf |work=Cash Box |volume=LIX |number=32|location=Cliffside Park|publisher=The Cash Box Publishing Co. |date=April 20, 1996}} Following the release, the group signed a deal with upstart label Rawkus Records for the release of their acclaimed album Funcrusher Plus, released in 1997, which includes all the tracks from Funcrusher (the CD edition omits "Corners '94").{{cite web |author=Preezy |date=July 25, 2017 |title=Company Flow's 'Funcrusher Plus' Epitomized Hip-Hop's Independent Spirit |url=https://theboombox.com/company-flows-funcrusher-plus-epitomized-hip-hops-spirit-of-independence/ |accessdate=July 17, 2021 |website=The Boombox}}