The Beatnuts are a hip hop group and production team from Queens, New York.
5, an instrumental album marketed by Hydra Entertainment instead of the Beatnuts' label Relativity.
The Beatnuts followed it up with 1998's The Spot, a remix EP containing one previously unreleased track and 1999's hit album A Musical Massacre.
They then released the 2002 album The Originators to critical success and commercial failure.
The Beatnuts next and last album, 2004's Milk Me, was released by Penalty to slightly better commercial reception than The Originators.