No Face
OriginNew York City
GenresHip hop
Years active1990s
LabelsColumbia Records, No Face Records, Rush Associated Labels
Past membersMark Sexx, the Shah

No Face (originally known as Funktion Freaks)[1] was a New York City-based rap duo active in the early 1990s, known for their outrageous, obscene lyrics.[2] Their music became very controversial because of how over-the-top and obscene it was, with most radio programmers, including black ones, refusing to play even censored versions of their songs.[3] The duo's members were Mark Sexx and the Shah;[4] Ed Lover was also a member for a time.[1] Their only studio album, Wake Your Daughter Up, was released in 1990 on No Face Records, a label affiliated with Russell Simmons' Rush Associated Labels. The album was distributed by both Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records.[3][5] The album featured the song "Fake Hair Wearin' Bitch", which featured 2 Live Crew.[3] In 1994, they released the single "No Brothas Allowed" on Interscope Records, accompanied by the B-side "Smashin' Fruit".[6][7] The group's only hit, "Half", was released as a single from Wake Your Daughter Up and peaked at #47 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.[4][8]

Critical reception

Jon Pareles gave Wake Your Daughter Up a very negative review in the New York Times, writing, "Any two teen-age boys with a drum machine could make a better album than this inept, calculating attempt to ride the 2 Live Crew bandwagon."[9] The Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot was more favorable, giving the album 2.5 out of 4 stars and writing that it "is funkier, funnier and far more inventive than anything on As Nasty as They Wanna Be."[10]

Discography

Albums

  • Wake Your Daughter Up (Rush Associated Labels, 1990)

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
R&B/HH
 AUS
[11]
"Revenge of the Bat (He's a Bat Mutha)" 1989 —— Non-album singles
"Hump Music" —64
"Half" 1990 47— Wake Your Daughter Up
"Fake Hair Wearin' Bitch"
(featuring 2 Live Crew)		 1991 ——
"Payback (Is a Mutha)"/"Player" 1993 —— Non-album singles
"No Brothas Allowed" 1994 ——

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr. Dre and Ed Lover". Contemporary Black Biography. 2005. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Goldstein, Patrick (26 August 1990). "Geffen vs. Geto Boys: Double Standard?". Los Angeles Times.
  3. 1 2 3 Goldstein, Patrick (18 November 1990). "Mark Sexx: A Liberated Male He's Not". Los Angeles Times.
  4. 1 2 Bush, John. "No Face Biography". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ Kot, Greg (14 December 1990). "Record Label Boss Censors Line From Female Rap Record". Sun-Sentinel.
  6. ↑ Gabriel, Trip. "Rappers finding that life is good in the Poconos". The Baltimore Sun.
  7. ↑ Stancell, Steven (1996-06-01). Rap Whoz Who: The World of Rap and Hip Hop. Omnibus Press. p. 212. ISBN 9780028645209.
  8. ↑ "No Face Chart History". Billboard.
  9. ↑ Pareles, Jon (30 December 1990). "The Best Show? In the Court, Not the Concert Hall". The New York Times.
  10. ↑ Kot, Greg (29 November 1990). "Wake Your Daughter Up (Columbia)". The Chicago Tribune.
  11. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 204.


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