The Beatnuts are a hip hop crew from Queens, New York City. Members are Ju-Ju (Jerry Tineo), of Dominican descent, and Psycho Les (Lester Fernandez), of Colombian descent. They are known for their production skills; early on in their career they produced a whole album for Chi-Ali. They worked together with many other rappers from Big Pun to Method Man. Jennifer Lopez used their track "Off the Books" (featuring Big Pun and Cuban Linx) for her song "Jenny from the Block". Fashion, now pursuing a solo career under the name Al Tariq, is a former member of the Beatnuts. Their first two albums were characterised by the basic kind of east coast hip hop which was en vogue at the time. Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ... Queens County in New York State Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the United States, is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Big Punisher (Big Pun for short, born Christopher Lee Rios) ( November 10, 1971 - February 7, 2000) was a Puerto Rican rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in the Bronx in the late 1990s. ... Method Man (born Clifford Smith, April 2, 1971 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York) is an East Coast rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan, also known for acting and frequent collaborations with Redman (not a Wu-Tang member). ... Jennifer Lynn López (also known as J. Lo, born July 24, 1969) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, fashion designer, dancer, and all-around cultural icon. ...

More recent Beatnuts albums are characterised by more Latin influences as well as an abundance of guest appearances; among them are Cheryl "Pepsi" Riley, Method Man, Magic Juan from Proyecto Uno, Common, Tony Touch, Greg Nice, Dead Prez, Large Professor, Triple Seis, Prince Whipper Whip, and many others. Latin American music, is sometimes called Latin music. ... Proyecto Uno is a dominican merengue/hip hop/reggaeton group from New York, composed of Nelson Zapata, Magic Juan, Johnny Salgado and Erik Boog. ... Common (aka Common Sense, born Lonnie Rashied Lynn) is a Chicago-based hip hop artist. ... Tony Touch, also known as Tony Toca, is a Puerto Rican hip hop DJ and producer from NY. He worked with many groups and rappers as Funkdoobiest, Cocoa Brovas and Cypress Hill. ... Dead Prez is the pair of largely-underground alternative rappers, Sticman and M-1. ... Triple Seis was a rapper of Dominican descent from The Bronx, New York, who was a former member of Fat Joes and the late Big Puns group the Terror Squad. ...

Discography

• 1993 Intoxicated Demons - The EP (Relativity/Violator)
• 1994 The Beatnuts (Relativity/Violator)
• 1997 Stone Crazy (Relativity/Violator/Epic/Sony)
• 1998 Remix EP: The Spot (Relativity/Violator/Epic/Sony)
• 1999 A Musical Massacre (Loud/Sony)
• 2001 Take It or Squeeze It (Loud/Epic/Sony)
• 2002 Classic Nuts Vol. 1 (Loud/Epic/Sony)
• 2002 The Originators (Landspeed)
• 2004 Milk Me (Penalty)

External links

• http://www.angelfire.com/hiphop2/thebeatnuts/ Unofficial fan site
• http://www.poundmag.com/magazine/features/articles/beatnuts/beatnuts.html Interview