![]() ![]() After seeing Dre's cousin Jinx' group perform in a rap contest, a teenage group called C.I.A. After being signed to CBS records Lonzo was asked if he had any other acts. The success of their early releases led to a major record deal with CBS/Epic Records. ![]() The Cru released the single "Slice", followed by "Surgery" and a full-length album titled World Class. Success and break up Īlonzo Williams created the label "Kru-cut" which began releasing The Wreckin' Cru music through the mid-1980s with very minimal resources through Macola Records", a local independent record manufacturing and distributing company. Wreckin' Cru performed in various shows elsewhere in Los Angeles, too, including shows promoted by Lonzo as well as opening for New Edition. Dre" Young-who became the original Mix Masters for KDAY. Lonzo hired two local DJs-Antoine " Yella" Carraby and Andre " Dr. Later, this honorific prefix World Class signified a recording group. Disco Construction created a subgroup, the Wreckin' Cru, which was the Lonzos' roadies. Initially directing its music program was Detroit-born Andre "Unknown DJ" Manuel, influenced by East Coast sounds, like Soulsonic Force, Orbit, and Scorpio.Īs the 1980s opened, electronic funk arrived, sampling drum beats and borrowing from old-school rap. At his songs' popularity, Williams arranged nightclub performances. In the 1970s, Williams had begun producing dance songs under the name Disco Construction, named after funk group Brass Construction. World Class Wreckin' Cru debuted in the nightclub Eve After Dark, owned by Alonzo Williams, an early West Coast DJ very popular in the Los Angeles area. A song by the Cru had also featured R&B singer Michel'le. Dre and DJ Yella, attained greater fame as members of N.W.A, which pioneered gangsta rap. Lonzo attempted to play off the big success of the group's last single by reassembling a new World Class Wreckin' Cru and releasing the album Turn Off The Lights In The Fast Lane in 1988.World Class Wreckin' Cru was an American electro group, during the 1980s in the Los Angeles area, that contributed to rap's development. Dre and released an album on Ruthless Records. while Shakespeare later pursued a position as a pastor. Dre and DJ Yella later continued producing music with N.W.A. Shortly before disbanding over financial problems, the slow jam record "Before You Turn Off The Lights" (which featured Michel'le) became a big hit all across the country's urban and pop charts by early 1988. The Wreckin' Cru enlisted aspiring rapper Ice Cube to help as a ghostwriter for the "House Calls / Cabbage Patch" single in 1987. The group's dancer, Shakespeare, later replaced Cli-N-Tel as they signed to Epic Records releasing a string of singles and their second album Rapped In Romance. The following year the group put out their first album World Class. Both records proved to become local electro-rap favorites selling many units on the west coast. In 1984 the group debuted on Lonzo's Kru-Cut record label releasing the single "Surgery" followed by "Juice". ![]() The group was originally formed by a Compton club owner Alonzo Williams as a mobile DJ crew for several years and it wasn't until 1983 that they decided to record music. Dre), Marquette Hawkins (Cli-N-Tel), DJ Yella (Antoine Carraby), Barry Severe (Shakespeare), Mona Lisa Young, Michelle Toussaint (Michel'le). Lonzo (Alonzo Williams), Andre Young (Dr. ![]()
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