Das EFX's wildly playful, rapid-fire stuttering -- dense with
rhymes and nonsense words -- was one of the most distinctive and
influential lyrical styles in early-'90s hip-hop. While the duo
completely rewrote the MC rule book, they themselves were
increasingly pegged as a one-dimensional novelty the longer
their career progressed, despite watching elements of their
style creep into countless rappers' bags of tricks. Krazy Drazyz
(born Andre Weston; Teaneck, NJ) and Skoob (born Willie Hines)
were both raised in Brooklyn, but didn't begin performing
together until they met at Virginia State University in 1988.
Removed from an active music scene, the two were free to develop
their most idiosyncratic tendencies; they started making up
gibberish words (anything ending in "-iggity" was a favorite)
that added loads of extra syllables to their lines, and wove
plenty of pop-cultural references into the tongue-twisting
lyrical gymnastics that resulted. Das EFX caught their big break
when they performed at a talent sho