Music for the People is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, released on July 23, 1991.

Alongside "Good Vibrations", the album spawned an additional top-ten single, "Wildside" (#10 on the Billboard Hot 100) and the minor hit "I Need Money".

Before the group's formation, Mark Wahlberg, the lead singer of the band, was imprisoned for beating a Vietnamese man in April 1988.

Despite being lauded more for Mark's physique and charisma than musicality, the album still managed to receive a Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.

"[2] MTV's Jason Ankeny said, that "Rap purists were appalled by Wahlberg's mediocre lyrical skills, lame samples, and tired beats.