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| Released | June 21, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | May 1993 - March 1994 | |||
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| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 58:21 | |||
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| AllMusic |    [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[2] |
| RapReviews | 8/10[3] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
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The Beatnuts is the self-titled full-length debut album by American hip hop trio The Beatnuts. It was released on June 21, 1994, via Violator/Relativity Records.[5] Recording sessions took place at LGK Studios in Leonia, New Jersey, at Soundtrack Studios and Greene St. Recording in New York. Production was handled by the Beatnuts, except for one song produced by Lucien. It features guest appearances from Gab Gotcha of Triflicts, Grand Puba and Miss Jones. The album reached number 182 on the Billboard 200 and number 28 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums in the United States. It boasts two singles: "Props Over Here", which peaked at number 39 on the US Hot Rap Singles, and "Hit Me with That". Music video for "Props Over Here" was directed by Abraham Lincoln Lim.
The album's title is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Street Level, because those words appear on the album cover; however, the words "Street Level" do not appear anywhere else on the CD (in the liner notes or on the CD spine label). The song "Psycho Dwarf" previously appeared on the 1993 Intoxicated Demons: The EP. It is the last Beatnuts album to include Fashion, who left the group to pursue a solo career under the alias Al' Tariq.
In 2012, the album was listed at No. 23 on Complex magazine's 'The 50 Greatest Debut Albums in Hip-Hop History'.[6] In 2014, the album was placed at No. 19 on the Vibe magazine's 'The 50 Best Rap Albums Of 1994' list.[7]
