Formed in 1988, the band reached the height of their popularity in the mid-1990s through constant touring and their lavish theme-based live shows.
This 8-person incarnation of the band would go on to record the group's debut album Big Wet Kiss in 1992 and started a tradition of playing lavish theme-based shows like the Winter Wonderland and the Funk-Aquatic Convention, often involving sets and costumes.
The band became an underground indie hit and was celebrated in publications like The Village Voice and a young Source Magazine for its groundbreaking mix of hip hop and live funk.
The band served as an escapist, irreverent, and acerbic counterweight to the grunge music at the top of the Billboard charts at the time.
The new, leaner lineup deepened their focus on more raw, hard funk and continued to find new ways to fuse it with live hip hop.
[3] In the summer of 2013, seventeen years after the group's final 1997 sold-out show at Mama Kin in Boston MA, the band got back together and started performing again.