Despite the unfriendly acronym (Y'All Gonna Get Fucked Up [if you] Front), and their grisly personal tags: D'Ranged & Damaged, Jingle Bel and Spin 4th, this Norfolk, Virginia trio offered an interesting take on hip-hop. They came together at university, with an educative platform that provided them with more effective ammunition than gun-toting gangsta rappers. There they worked as DJs on North Carolina college radio before uniting as a trio. Using live instruments, including horns and piano, they perfected a stimulating blend of sharply observed lyrics and clever samples. Their first release was the excellent "Looking For A Contract", which detailed the lives of starving rap aspirants. Comparisons to A Tribe Called Quest notwithstanding, their debut album was also an excellent, intelligent affair. There were comedic moments too, not least "My Dick Is So Large", a thinly veiled parody of egotistical rappers. Nevertheless, their style was generally expressive: "Basically the Yaggfu sound is emotional. We want to capture the way someone feels".
Discography: Action Packed Adventure (Phonogram/Mercury 1994)***.
Source: http://www.music.us/biography/artist/28983/yaggfu_front.html
