Wreckx-n-Effect (originally Wrecks-n-Effect) is an American new jack swing group from Harlem, New York City.
[1] In 1988 childhood friends Aqil Davidson, Markell Riley and Brandon "B-Doggs" Mitchell formed Wrecks-n-Effect.
Following very little fanfare on that debut four member EP, later that year, Davidson, Riley and Mitchell reconvened their initial vision as a trio.
[3] In 1990, former member DJ "B-Doggs" Brandon Mitchell was killed in a local shootout, which nearly caused Davidson and Riley to end the group.
Conrad Tillard, then known variously as the Hip Hop Minister and Conrad Muhammad, became a fixture in hip-hop in 1993 after he arranged a meeting and a truce in a feud between rising bands Wreckx-n-Effect and A Tribe Called Quest, that Tillard said threatened to turn Harlem into a "war zone".