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Whodini
Whodini
American hip-hop group
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The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys
American hip hop trio
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The Pack
The Pack
hip hop group
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Richie Rich
Richie Rich
American rapper
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Run-DMC
Run-DMC
American hip hop group
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Fredro Starr
Fredro Starr
American hardcore rapper, record producer, actor and author, best known as a member of multi-platinum hardcore rap group Onyx
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Trackmasters
Trackmasters
American hip hop production duo
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Doug E. Fresh
Doug E. Fresh
American beatboxer, rapper and producer
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Roxanne Shanté
Roxanne Shanté
American rapper
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Mobb Deep
Mobb Deep
American hip hop duo
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Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
American hip hop group
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Chill Rob G
Chill Rob G
American rapper
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UTFO
UTFO
old school hip hop american band
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The Unknown DJ
The Unknown DJ
American record producer
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Melle Mel
Melle Mel
American hip-hop musician and member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
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Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire
American band
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Everlast
Everlast
American musician and songwriter
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Illegal
Illegal
American hip hop group
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Ed Lover
Ed Lover
American rapper
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Mantronix
Mantronix
American hip hop band
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2 Live Crew
2 Live Crew
American hip-hop group
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Snap!
Snap!
German band
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Full Force
Full Force
American R&B and hip hop singers
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Ya Kid K
Ya Kid K
Belgian singer
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Fresh Kid Ice
Fresh Kid Ice
Chinese Trinidadian-American rapper and co-founder of rap group 2 Live Crew
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Erick Sermon
Erick Sermon
American rapper, musician and record producer
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Onyx
Onyx
American hardcore hip hop group
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DJ Premier
DJ Premier
American record producer and DJ
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Luther Campbell
Luther Campbell
American rapper
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Ari Lennox
Ari Lennox
American singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C.
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Joe Budden
Joe Budden
American hip hop recording artist
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T La Rock
T La Rock
Old-school hip hop musician
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EarthGang
EarthGang
hip hop duo from Atlanta, Georgia
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Spoonie Gee
Spoonie Gee
American musician
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Donald D
Donald D
musical artist
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The Emotions
The Emotions
American vocal group from Chicago, Illinois
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Redman
Redman
American rapper
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Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox
Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress
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Jeru the Damaja
Jeru the Damaja
American hip hop artist
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House of Pain
House of Pain
American hip hop group
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band that plays electro
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Newcleus was an American electro and old school hip hop group that gained popularity in the early 1980s. The group is primarily known for its 12-inch single "Jam-On's Revenge" (re-released as "Jam on Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)" (1983)) and "Jam on It" (1984), which began as an anti-rap joke, according to founding member DJ and producer Ben Cenac.

At the time (1981) we were going by the name Positive Messenger and were making music that had a purpose, either messages of love or faith or talking about the conditions of the world. However, we were still doing lots of Hip-Hop jams with our DJ crew Jam-On Productions. So, one of our DJs, Salvador Smooth, kept nagging me to do a Rap song. Having come out of Hip-Hop street battles in Brooklyn in the ’70s, I didn't really think much of the Rap records that were playing on the radio, so I figured as a joke I would make a parody jam ... I threw in an idea from an [event] that actually had happened in the ’70s, when a DJ who we had just blown out in a battle said to me "Yeah, you guys are bad, but you can't do this… wikki wikki wikki wikki," meaning how we didn't scratch on the turntables.

I used to play "Jam-On's Revenge" at our parties and it would fill the dance floor, so even though I had never planned to release it, when I was shopping Positive Messenger for a deal I put it on the tape just to fill out space at the end. Turned out it ended up being the track that drove everybody crazy! So, we went with it and changed our names to Newcleus."

The group was based in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Their appearance overlapped with the formative years of hip-hop DJing in the Bronx.

The beat from their 1984-song "Automan" was adapted by euro-dance project "Snap!" for their 1992-release "Rhythm is a Dancer" which featured lyrics written and performed by American singer and songwriter Thea Austin as well as rap vocals by American rapper Turbo B and became a major international hit.