Company Flow on DeBaser: underground blueprints and skewed beats

Company Flow

Musical Group

Forfans of underground/alternative hip hop, rawkus-era heads, el‑p listeners, and beat diggers.
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The Profile

Company Flow is an American hip hop group from New York City formed by El‑P (Jaime Meline) and DJ Mr. Len, later joined by Bigg Jus. They helped define underground/alternative hip hop with Funcrusher Plus (1997) and the instrumental Little Johnny From The Hospitul (1999).

Formed in NYC in the early 1990s by El‑P and Mr. Len; Bigg Jus later joined. Debut Funcrusher (1995) was expanded and released as Funcrusher Plus on Rawkus Records in 1997. Followed by the instrumental LP Little Johnny From The Hospitul: Breaks And Instrumentals, Vol. 1 in 1999. Widely cited as pioneers of the underground hip hop movement.

Two DeBaser reviews hail Company Flow’s pioneering role in underground hip hop. Funcrusher Plus (1997) is praised as freakish, forward, and masterful. Little Johnny From The Hospitul (1999) showcases instrumental experimentation with sharper mixing and broader accessibility. The New York trio of El‑P, Bigg Jus, and Mr. Len is credited with reshaping the underground ethos.

Notable Quotes

❝ Company Flow, on par with the aforementioned sacred monsters, have contributed, with their atypical and seminal albums, to strongly revolutionizing Rap, passing on to posterity a new figure of "underground artist," which still today continues to gather new followers.