Onyx - Bacdafucup/Throw Ya Gunz [Explicit] [Uncensored] [Remastered In 4K] (Official Music Video)
Onyx - Bacdafucup (Official Music Video)
Onyx - Throw Ya Gunz (Official Music Video)


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Bacdafucup/Throw Ya Gunz · Onyx

Bacdafucup

℗ 1993 Rush Associated Labels Inc.

Released on: 1993-03-30

Producer: Chyskillz
Producer: Jam Master Jay
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Troy Hightower
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Akili Walker
Associated Performer, Rap Vocalist: Onyx
Composer Lyricist: Chylow M. Parker
Composer Lyricist: Tyrone Taylor
Composer Lyricist: Fred Scruggs
Composer Lyricist: Sticky Fingaz
Composer Lyricist: Marlon G. Fletcher
Composer Lyricist: Kirk Jones

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"Throw Ya Gunz" is the first single by American hip hop group Onyx from their debut album, Bacdafucup. It was released on November 27, 1992, by JMJ, Rush Associated Labels and Chaos Recordings. Produced by Jam Master Jay, Chylow Parker, and Randy Allen (Executive Producer), "Throw Ya Gunz" was a success and made it to four Billboard charts, including number 1 on the Hot Rap Singles for two weeks. The song achieved even greater success in the UK, where it peaked at number 34 on the UK Top 40 in 1993.

The original version, "Wake Up Dead, Nigga," featured obscure New York rapper Tek-9, and was not released on any of Onyx's studio albums. Tek-9 rapped the opening verse and Jamaican hook on the second demo version. Eventually, the tune appeared on 1993's Bacdafucup, where it was one of eight cuts recorded in the studio at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

The song signifies the Jamaican tradition of a gun salute as a show of respect to the men on the mic. Def Jam/RAL director of A&R Traci Waples says, "The phrase isn't about violence; it's a way to salute hip-hop". (from Billboard magazine - May 15, 1993)

In 1995, in an interview on BET's Teen Summit Sticky Fingaz explains the meaning of this song: "'Throw Ya Gunz' is a salute to hip hop. Just like in the army. Because this is war out there. So we are army. We got a 21-gun salute to all the people who is dead. It's not about pro-violence. I'm not saying throw your guns and shoot the next brother, i'm saying throw your guns in the air. They think a gun is a violent instrument, which is not. Guns don't kill people! People kill people!"

The music video was Diane Martel's directorial debut. The video was shot in South Jamaica, Queens. Real guns, including Tec-9s and Mac-10s provided by Jam Master Jay, were used. The music video begins with a group of people running on the beach. Onyx performs on the beach and in a darkened room. A large group of people dance with the song.[6] Sticky Fingaz came up with idea to use Plexiglas during filming the video. The video was premiered on The BOX in December 1992.

The video can be found on the 2008 DVD Onyx: 15 Years Of Videos, History And Violence and on 2009's Def Jam's DVD Def Jam 25: VJ Bring That Video Back.

In November 1992, the single was delivered to radio, and although it was getting played, program directors "were complaining" about the profanity and violence in the lyrics. Julie Greenwald, Lyor Cohen's assistant, remembers that time:

"...Nobody wanted to play [the video], but the places it did get played, it was so reactive, and so potent. We circumvented it with the vinyl out on the streets and with the video at the local video outlets, and we got such major response off that, and we knew that we were developing something so cool."

Funkmaster Flex was one of the first djs who played "Throw Ya Gunz" on his show Friday Night Street Jam on the radio Hot 97. Especially for this show, Onyx recorded a promo jingle for the radio.

WPGC-FM (95.5), Washington's top-rated radio station, rejected Onyx's hit single "Throw Ya Guns in the Air" and no longer plays songs that could be construed as advocating violence.

On April 25, 1994, Onyx was nominated for five awards on The Source's "1st annual Source Awards" at the Paramount Theatre at Madison Square Garden, but the group did not win.

Onyx performed the song live on the UK TV-show "The Word" aired on November 19, 1993.

In 1999, Ego Trip's editors ranked the song in their list Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1993 in Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists. In 2010, Robert Dimery included the song in his book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die: And 10,001 You Must Download. In 2010, Complex put the video on the song in their list The Biggest Arsenals in Rap Videos. In 2016, XXL put the song in their list 50 Violent Rap Lyrics That Will Make You Cringe.

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