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RAW FUSION
A FEW LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
ABOUT RAW FUSION
•Favorite Kung Fu Flick: Drunken
Master, starring Jackie Chan.
.DJ Fuze was an avid KISS fan in
his younger days and once
worked as a prep cook at the
world-renown Chez Panisse.
⚫(According to DJ Fuze) Money B
is a hoochie.
Kung Fu fix, reggae riddims,
gourmet cooking, old KISS albums
and hip hop don't often have
much in common, unless of course
you happen to be Money B and DJ
Fuze of the Oakland/Berkeley
based rap group Raw Fusion. The
duo's latest musical effort, entitled
Hoochiefied Funk, is packed to the
brim with the hella fat sinister
tracks, wild freestyle bonanzas,
and of course, plenty of Money B's
patented freakydeaky vibes. Or, in
the words of DJ Fuze, it's chock
full of "jams that muthafuckas from
the break dancing days of hip hop
can get with."
The music on Hoochiefied Funk
is a radical departure compared to
their 1991 debut, Live From The
Styleetron, which was a science
64 T
fiction injected romp through fan-
tasmic rhymescapes. "I don't think
people could really get with
Styleetron conceptually," states
Money B. "They had to think too
hard, so we've stripped it down.
a little bit."
Fuze goes on, "For this album,
we realized that what people want
from us is not a science fiction/fan-
tasy story, they want Money B to
be his little freaky-assed self and
come with straight rhymes, that's
why we call the album Hoochiefied
Funk, cuz Money B's a hoochie."
All this talk about hoochies. It's a
bit cryptic, isn't it? It makes you
wanna ask, "Just what in the hell is
a hoochie? And what in tarnation
is Hoochiefied Funk?" Money B
merely states that "Hoochiefied
Funk is another word for ghetto
funk. Fine. But that still doesn't
answer the question "What's a
hoochie? Fuze is more than
obliged to offer up an explanation.
"Hoochie is a word, some people
would call it derogatory, for atti-
tude. It's like an ignorant attitude,
y'know like Shenehneh and
Wanda? That's a hoochie."
So why did they decide to call
the album Hoochiefied Funk? Fuze
answers this question with an air of
deep introspection, "Basically we
call this album Hoochiefied Funk
because we wanted to make an
album that when you played one
of the songs off it, all the girls in
the room would go, "HAAAAY!"
That's why we called it Hoochie-
fied Funk, 'cuz it's the type shit
that makes the hoochies go,
"HAAAAAY!"
Even though Raw Fusion has
openly embraced the adoration of
hoochies everywhere with the
release of Hoochiefied Funk, one
can't help but wonder whatever
became of the Cyclotron, the leg
endary beat fusionator/rhyme
crusher that Money and Fuze used
to concoct their ill Stylectron
sounds. "We're still using the
Cyclotron, we're just not mention-
ing it on the album," begins Mon.
Fuze, affecting a low whisper,
mutters, "On the under, the CIA
threatened our lives if we used it.
They came in and confiscated it.
They took it away, studied it, took
it apart and figured out how it
worked. Then they made their own
Cyclotron and patented it, so now
we can't use it anymore." As for
the group's "alleged" (it's really
quite well-known) addiction to
Kung Fu flix, well, Fuze isn't above
droppin' funny dubbed vocals
from various old school Kung Fu
movies into the mix. In fact, the
new album's littered with 'em.
"Yeah, we got some tasty tidbits of
Kung Fu styles in there. Kung Fu
doesn't really influence our music
that much, but the whole thing
goes hand-in-hand. Martial artists
flex styles and people in hip hop
flex styles. It's the same thing.
styles are important."
While styles certainly play a
major role in defining the overall
Raw Fusion vibe, so does the
music. "The thing about Raw
Fusion is that you're always gonna
have lotsa bass to make sure that
it hits in the car. The sound, that's
the main thing." explains Money B.
"Yeah, with our shit, the first job
is to have the beat," agrees Fuze.
"I gotta make shit that the people
out here (in the Bay Area) like. I
wanna make music for my friends
and peers out here, 'cuz I relate to
them and they relate to me. I
wanna make shit that if you put it
on at a party in Oakland, it'll blow
up. Hell, I just wanna make funky
shit! Period." -Spence Dookey
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