Funcrusher Plus

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/funcrusher-plus-mw0000595033|title=Funcrusher Plus – Company Flow|publisher=AllMusic|first=Steve|last=Huey|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|year=2011|chapter=Company Flow|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|publisher=Omnibus Press|edition=5th concise|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}

| rev3 = Los Angeles Times

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/05/album-review-company-flows-funcrusher-plus-reissue-.html|title=Album Review: Company Flow's 'Funcrusher Plus' reissue|work=Los Angeles Times|first=Jeff|last=Weiss|date=May 7, 2009|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}

| rev4 = Muzik

| rev4score = 10/10{{cite journal|title=Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus (Official/Rawkus)|journal=Muzik|first=Will|last=Ashon|issue=27|date=August 1997|page=125}}

| rev5 = NME

| rev5score = 7/10{{cite journal|url=https://www.nme.com:80/reviews/reviews/19980101001265reviews.html|title=Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus|journal=NME|first=Paul|last=Moody|date=September 27, 1997|accessdate=March 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817215002/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101001265reviews.html|archive-date=August 17, 2000|url-status=dead}}

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6score = 9.0/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13019-funcrusher-plus/|title=Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus|work=Pitchfork|first=Nate|last=Patrin|date=May 15, 2009|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}

| rev7 = PopMatters

| rev7score = 9/10{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/review/110482-company-flow-funcrusher-plus/|title=Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus|work=PopMatters|first=Mike|last=Newmark|date=September 13, 2009|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}

| rev8 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA187|chapter=Company Flow|last=Seward|first=Scott|accessdate=April 10, 2015|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/187 187–88]}}

| rev9 = Spectrum Culture

| rev9score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=http://spectrumculture.com/2009/05/19/company-flow-funcrusher-plus/|title=Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus|work=Spectrum Culture|first=Nick|last=Hanover|date=May 19, 2009|accessdate=March 8, 2018}}

| rev10 = Spin

| rev10score = 8/10{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_uWz-QtMkI4C&pg=PA116|title=Lateef and Lyrics Born: Latyrx / Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus|magazine=Spin|volume=13|issue=5|first=Dave|last=Tompkins|date=August 1997|accessdate=March 8, 2018|pages=116–18}}

}}

Jon Dolan of City Pages noted "[Company Flow's] evincing a confrontational critique of 'those signed, big-budget muthafuckas' like none hip hop has attempted since EPMD's Strictly Business."{{cite web|url=http://www.citypages.com/1997-11-26/music/company-flow-funcrusher-plus/full/|title=Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus|work=City Pages|first=Jon|last=Dolan|date=November 26, 1997|accessdate=April 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416204413/http://www.citypages.com/1997-11-26/music/company-flow-funcrusher-plus/full/|archive-date=April 16, 2015|url-status=dead}} Andrew Hultkrans of Spin gave the album 8 stars out of 10, commenting that "[the album] deconstructed hip-hop conventions and rebuilt them into a spare, murky, sputtering soundscape." Jeff Weiss of the Los Angeles Times felt that "El-P conjured an apocalyptic minimalism -- the sublimated sound of clanging and cluttered train cars, city grime buried beneath cuticles, and the ghostly smoke of burning blunts." Brian Coleman of CMJ New Music Monthly called it "the most important release of 1997 thus far."{{cite journal|first=Brian|last=Coleman|title=Hip-Hop|journal=CMJ New Music Monthly|date=September 1997|page=51}} The New York Times wrote that Company Flow "rap fast, rude, free-associative boasts and dystopian visions over tracks that mesh raunchy old funk snippets with electronic noise, making hip-hop that's simultaneously propulsive and disorienting."{{cite news |last1=Pareles |first1=Jon |title=Uncovering Good Music That Few Got to Hear |work=The New York Times |date=14 Jan 1998 |page=E1}}

Nate Patrin of Pitchfork said: "With the exception of the nocturnal crystalline funk of the Bigg Jus-produced 'Lune TNS' and the frequent scratch contributions from secret weapon DJ Mr. Len, Funcrusher Plus{{'}} beats bear the mark of El-P's dusty-but-digital aesthetic, which even back then had the same sort of beautiful-dystopia Blade Runner feel that informed Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein and his own Fantastic Damage a few years later." AllMusic gave the album a perfect 5 star rating, and writer Steve Huey stated: "[Funcrusher Plus] demands intense concentration, but also rewards it, and its advancement of hip-hop as an art form is still being felt. It's difficult, challenging music, to be sure, and it's equally far ahead of its time."

Joseph Schafer of Stereogum said, "Funcrusher Plus made for a hell of an opening salvo, and most emcee/producers would envy having such a record in their discography, but El mostly improved upon his work here later."{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1642051/el-p-albums-from-worst-to-best/franchises/counting-down/attachment/elp_companyflow/|title= El-P Albums From Worst To Best - Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (1997)|work=Stereogum|first=Joseph|last=Schafer|date=January 29, 2014|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}

On October 4, 2011, "Lune TNS" was chosen by NJ.com as the Song of the Day.{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2011/10/song_of_the_day_lune_tns_compa.html|title=Song of the Day: 'Lune TNS,' Company Flow|work=NJ.com|first=Tris|last=McCall|date=October 4, 2011|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}

In 2003, Funcrusher Plus ranked at number 84 on Pitchfork{{'}}s Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/2/|title=Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (2/8)|work=Pitchfork Media|first=Alex|last=Linhardt|date=November 17, 2003|accessdate=April 10, 2015}} In 2014, Complex listed the album at number 86 on the 90 Best Rap Albums of the 90s.{{cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/music/2014/04/the-90-best-rap-albums-of-the-90s/company-flow-funcrusher-plus|title=The 90 Best Rap Albums of the '90s - 86. Company Flow, Funcrusher Plus (1997)|work=Complex|first=Russ|last=Bengston|date=April 24, 2014|accessdate=April 10, 2015|archivedate=April 13, 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413000221/http://www.complex.com/music/2014/04/the-90-best-rap-albums-of-the-90s/company-flow-funcrusher-plus|url-status=deviated}} In 2015, it was chosen by Fact as number 4 on the 100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time.{{cite web|url=http://www.factmag.com/2015/02/25/the-100-best-indie-hip-hop-records-of-all-time/98/|title=The 100 best indie hip-hop records of all time (98/101)|work=Fact|date=February 25, 2015|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}

{{Track listing

| title1 = Bad Touch Example

| lyrics1 = {{hlist|Justin Ingleton|Jaime Meline}}

| music1 = El-P

| length1 = 3:26

| title2 = 8 Steps to Perfection

| lyrics2 = {{hlist|Ingleton|Meline}}

| music2 = El-P

| length2 = 4:43

| title3 = Collude/Intrude

| note3 = featuring J-Treds

| lyrics3 = {{hlist|Meline|J-Treds}}

| music3 = El-P

| length3 = 5:25

| title4 = Blind

| lyrics4 = {{hlist|Ingleton|Meline}}

| music4 = El-P

| length4 = 3:42

| title5 = Silence

| lyrics5 = Ingleton

| music5 = El-P

| length5 = 3:33

| title6 = Legends

| lyrics6 = Meline

| music6 = El-P

| length6 = 4:02

| title7 = Help Wanted

| music7 = El-P

| length7 = 2:13

| title8 = Population Control

| lyrics8 = {{hlist|Ingleton|Meline|R.A. Thorburn}}

| music8 = El-P

| length8 = 4:26

| title9 = Lune TNS

| lyrics9 = Ingleton

| music9 = Bigg Jus

| length9 = 3:39

| title10 = Definitive

| lyrics10 = Meline

| music10 = El-P

| length10 = 5:47

| title11 = Lencorcism

| music11 = Mr. Len

| length11 = 0:36

| title12 = 89.9 Detrimental

| lyrics12 = Meline

| music12 = El-P

| length12 = 1:03

| title13 = Vital Nerve

| note13 = featuring BMS

| lyrics13 = {{hlist|Meline|BMS}}

| music13 = El-P

| length13 = 5:01

| title14 = Tragedy of War (in III Parts)

| lyrics14 = {{hlist|Ingleton|Meline}}

| music14 = El-P

| length14 = 3:49

| title15 = The Fire in Which You Burn

| note15 = featuring The Brewin from the Juggaknots & J-Treds

| lyrics15 = {{hlist|Ingleton|Meline|Breezly Brewin|J-Treds}}

| music15 = El-P

| length15 = 5:02

| title16 = Krazy Kings

| lyrics16 = Ingleton

| music16 = El-P

| length16 = 4:52

| title17 = Last Good Sleep

| lyrics17 = Meline

| music17 = Mr. Len, El-P

| length17 = 5:59

| title18 = Info Kill II

| lyrics18 = {{hlist|Ingleton|Meline}}

| music18 = El-P

| length18 = 3:48

| title19 = Funcrush Scratch

| music19 = Mr. Len

| length19 = 2:48

| total_length = 73:52

}}

Notes

• "Population Control" features uncredited vocals from R.A. the Rugged Man
• The vinyl version contains a track originally featured on the Funcrusher EP, titled "Corners '94".

• El-P – producer, lead vocals, mixing
• Bigg Jus – producer, lead vocals
• Mr. Len – producer, scratching
• R.A. the Rugged Man – vocals
• J-Treds – vocals
• BMS – vocals
• Breezly Brewin – vocals
• Vassos – recording, engineering, mixing
• Jeff Cordero – recording, engineering, mixing
• Walker Bernard – recording, engineering
• Chris Athens – mastering

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Category:1997 debut albums

Category:Progressive rap albums

Category:Company Flow albums

Category:Rawkus Records albums

Category:Albums produced by El-P