we just walked through security, talking to each other like we supposed to be here. Me and my DJ LS One, we ain't even have tickets to the Grammys. ".This time I need to promote 'Shut 'Em Down' album. Sticky Fingaz told Ol' Dirty Bastard of his plan to take over the stage to promote Onyx's new album "Shut 'Em Down" at that evening the Grammys were going to take place. The 40th Annual Grammy Awards, were held on February 25, 1998, at Radio City Music Hall, New York City. In addition, the original cover of the album was too similar to the cover of the album "All We Got Iz Us" and the members of Onyx thought that people could get confused, so they changed it Kelly did not give permission for using his chorus), there was a X1 verse in the song "Ghetto Starz", "Overshine" was not a hidden track, in the song "Black Dust" the line from Sonny Seeza's verse was cut, "The Worst" was named "Onyx vs. The contents of this CD differed significantly from the final version of the album: "Broke Willies" was originally called "Stones", "Rob & Vic" was originally called "Love Of Money" (and had a completely different beat), the song "I Don't Wanna Die" was later removed (since R. Shut 'Em Down (Exclusive Advance) ĭef Jam released a promo release on the CD in the cardboard sleeve "Shut 'Em Down (Exclusive Advance)" in February 1998.
He also produced the remix for this song featuring Big Pun. He produced the single Shut 'Em Down, the first record with DMX. Self did seven tracks for their third album Shut 'Em Down, but only five of them were placed on the album. Self was introduced to the group by Onyx's road manager Eat 'Em Up. The song "Broke Willies" samples a portion of Rolling Stones's song Miss You. "Take That" was cut from the album to not make a double album. Keith Horne made 11 songs with Onyx, but only 5 of them were included on the album. It was recorded a lot of songs for two albums, but eventually only one album was released. Latief made music for collaboration with Wu-Tang Clan called " The Worst".Īccording to Keith Horne, one of the producers of the album "Shut 'Em Down", this album was technically the forth studio album by Onyx. Most of the album was produced by Self and Keith Horne, with help from DJ Scratch on the songs "Street Nigguz", "Conspiracy" and "Black Dust", Bud'da also produced the songs " React" and "Ghetto Starz". Cheeks, Killa Sin, Method Man, Raekwon, N.O.R.E. The album features guest spots from Onyx's affiliate X1, DMX, Chocolate, Clay The Raider (also known as Scarred 4 Life), 50 Cent, Bonifucco, Still Livin' from Gang Green, Sunshine, Bubba Smith, All City's J. The album was recorded in New York City and Los Angeles. This one has elements of both, style flipping. All We Got Iz Us was more narcissistic, it was a dark album. ".It's like a combination of both of the (first two) albums taken to the next level. In February 1998, in an interview for MTV over the phone line, Sticky Fingaz told about the new album: This was written in the " Billboard Magazine" on July 13, 1996. "Shut 'Em Down" was originally supposed to be released on March 17, 1998, but was delayed until April 17, then May 19, and was finally released on June 2.Ĭhyskillz was originally picked as the main producer of the third album. JMJ Records as well as Onyx was officially removed from Def Jam on "Black Thursday" - Janubecause the label PolyGram, who in 1994 purchased 50% of Sony's Def Jam, was sold to Seagram on December 10, 1998. "Shut 'Em Down" is the last album, released by Onyx on the Def Jam. The album sold fairly well, moving over 500,000 units. The album features three the Billboard singles The Worst, Shut 'Em Down and React. Billboard 200, and number 3 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and sold 90,000 copies in its first week. Shut 'Em Down debuted at number 10 on the U.S. Cheeks, Wu-Tang Clan, N.O.R.E., Big Pun and others. The album features guest appearances from Onyx's affiliate X1, DMX, a then-unknown 50 Cent, Still Livin from Gang Green, All City, Mr. The album was produced by Keith Horne and Self, with help from DJ Scratch of EPMD, Bud'da and Latief. Shut 'Em Down is the third album by American hip hop group Onyx, released on June 2, 1998, by JMJ Records and Def Jam.
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