F.O.N. - Gotta Get Mine - 1996

 

12" - 1996 - Fun Records Inc 

This wax came out in 1996 on Fun Records, Inc, a record label from Staten Island managed by Richard Woods who is now deceased. It was released by a group named F.O.N. which stands for Forces Of Nature.

The crew originally consisted of 3 members named Rasheed Gutter a.k.a Spiff from East NY Brooklyn, Haze from Staten Island NY, God Lamont a.k.a Mr. Luz a.k.a L Luz "Da Ear" from Lower East Side Manhattan. There is also a 4th member named Stoney who came after.

From Left to Right : Stoney, Spiff & Haze 

Haze : "Stoney was a solo artist who filled in for L Luz cause he made a choice to go military. And Stoney was a friend of ours through a music connect and then we went with him on the album cover to fill Mr Luz spot but he was really solo. All the members of the group are family except Stoney..."

Spiff : " We are cousins and connected when I moved to Staten Island with my father..." 

Haze : "...we all loved Hip-Hop music so we came together through G-man who is Rasheed's father, our uncle. He played music and we wrote rhymes in his house in the studio he had called Pre Production...that's how we connected as Forces Of Nature."

Their 12" is composed of two songs "Gotta Get Mine" on the A-side and "Bring Wreck" on the B-side, both songs available in their original versions produced by Howard Gutter a.k.a G-man and in their remix versions produced by Brent 'Faroh' Toussaint for who the connection was arranged by Richard Woods (RIP). If you don't remember who is Brent Toussaint, he's the guy who also produced the excellent compilation Nodyaheadtodis Vol 1 in 1996.

 

 For your information, a full album with 15 songs and skits was recorded by the group, it was called "You Never Saw Us Coming!" but unfortunately it never saw the light of day...