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Mixing straight rap and dance hall sounds with a lyrical barrage of references to martial arts movies and pop culture in general, Fu-Schnickens throw a big party on their debut album, F.U.--Don't Take It Personal...
From the opening track, "True Fuschnick," this group makes it clear that they're out to have a good time. The three rappers--Chip FU, Poc FU and Moc FU--introduce themselves with distinctive vocal styles, and the fun begins. Each soloist raps in a call-and-response dialogue with the rest of the group, creating a frenetic atmosphere which never lets...
...martial arts theme is most fully developed in "Movie Scene." A hilarious movie parody dissolves into crazy beats while Chip FU gives hardcore lines a different flavor with lyrics such as "So don't try to test Chip FU you fantail shrimp/What are you, Bullwinkle or Rocky/Don't start no beef or broccoli/So give it up, you lost/Or you better duck sauce...
...quite a while before writers find an arena as morally complex or financially rewarding. Before World War II, the spy novelist usually took the low road: the hero was implausibly good, as in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps. Evil was unambiguous. Sax Rohmer invested his villain, Fu Manchu, "with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race . . . the Yellow Peril incarnate." But in the postwar period the public grew weary of caricatures, and only Ian Fleming could profitably drive on the old thoroughfare, with men like Doctor No and Goldfinger in the backseat...
...communists took power in Beijing in 1949, and then, contrary to General Douglas MacArthur's confident predictions, the Chinese People's Liberation Army entered the Korean War against U.N. forces in 1950. The American image of China suddenly flipped back to the stereotype of Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril. Washington's constant assumption that Chinese aggression threatened all of Southeast Asia led in time to America's war in Vietnam...