Artist description The precursor to Ghetto Rock. The step before the evolution of this rap group into a rock band.

Music Style Alternative Hip Hop on some Nonsense...

Musical Influences De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Beck, yo' mama, Frank Zappa, the Make-Up

Similar Artists Beastie Boys (circa '86), El Pus, Native Tounges, Fishbone, Jungle Brothers, Basehead

Artist History Awkward Stylistics/A.S. Octopussy documents the period before band leaders Cufi and Cosmo formed the band El Pus. This shows their tendency to expand the boundaries of hip-hop...contorting it into the shape which they most desired. Featuring Mike (Bam-Bam) Todd, this group was extremely popular in the Houston and Atlanta music scenes until the groups reformation in 1998 into the band El Pus without Todd. These recordings, taken from the period immediately preceding this change, were ahead of their time and still sound fresh...in all senses of the word.

Group Members Cufi Delpus, (vocals, guitar)Cosmo Brown, (vocals, bass)Mike Todd, (vocals, trumpet)Leslie Lewis, (drums)Woodstock, (bass)

Albums Texas Fool!-EP (Awkward Stylistics), Uda-EP(A.S. Octopussy)

Additional Info currently have the album Strange Cowboy available as El Pus on Vagabond Produckshuns, and Fabulous/Toshiba-EMI

Location Atlanta, GA - USA

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