Bigg Jus and El-P 's lyrical technique is so good it's sometimes nearly impenetrable, assaulting the listener with dense barrages of words that take a few listens to decipher.
Musically and lyrically, Funcrusher Plus is abrasive and confrontational, informed by left-wing politics and the punked-out battle cry 'independent as f*ck.' It's intentionally not funky and certainly not danceable the beats are tense and jagged, and often spaced far apart to leave room for the MCs' complex rhymes. It was one of the artiest, most abstract hip-hop albums ever recorded, paving the way for a new brand of avant-garde experimentalism that blatantly defied commercial considerations.
Featuring material recorded over 1994-1997, Company Flow 's official full-length debut, Funcrusher Plus, had a galvanizing effect on the underground hip-hop scene.
