Bumpy Knuckles, also known as Freddie Foxxx, (born James Campbell in 1969) … Read Full Bio ↴Bumpy Knuckles, also known as Freddie Foxxx, (born James Campbell in 1969) is an American rapper from New York. He has a trademark rough and tough approach in his lyrics (as well as his lifestyle) which has endeared him to Hardcore hip hop lovers and yet made him infamous within the record industry.
Foxxx released his first LP, Freddie Foxxx Is Here in (1989) through MCA Records. He soon parted ways with the label and became a member of Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit establishment. In 1993, Foxxx was preparing to release his sophomore LP, Crazy Like A Foxxx, through Epic Records when the label unexpectedly decided to shelve it. Leader of the badest motorcycle gang krupt mob.
Foxxx then began to be known more for his cameos on songs by Boogie Down Productions, Naughty By Nature, M.O.P., Missin Linx and, most notably, his appearance on Gang Starr's The Militia from their Moment Of Truth album (1998). The song was issued as a single, building a buzz for Foxxx and helping him to prep for his next full-length release.
This time around he applied the lessons he'd learnt from previous experiences with major record labels, and went the independent route. His album, Industry Shakedown would become the best-selling independently released album of 2000. The LP featured production from hip hop heavyweights DJ Premier, Pete Rock and The Alchemist. The members of M.O.P. provided the albums only cameo.
After the success of Industry Shakedown, Foxxx once again moved labels from Landspeed Records to BBE Records and released his third official album, Konexion (2003). A less commercially successful affair, the album was nevertheless faithful to its predecessor in terms of style and content and featured contributions from frequent collaborator DJ Premier, DJ Clark Kent and Foxxx himself under the alias of Hidden Agenda.
Foxxx was shouted out at the end of Tupac Shakur's classic diss song "Hit 'Em Up" (video version).
Foxxx made significant contributions to the WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006 soundtrack. He contributed two songs, and made a guest appearance on another song. He also produced all of the hip hop songs under his alias.
In 2006, he released a mixtape called Street Triumph, in anticipation of his fifth album, Amerikkan Black Man.
Foxxx released his first LP, Freddie Foxxx Is Here in (1989) through MCA Records. He soon parted ways with the label and became a member of Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit establishment. In 1993, Foxxx was preparing to release his sophomore LP, Crazy Like A Foxxx, through Epic Records when the label unexpectedly decided to shelve it. Leader of the badest motorcycle gang krupt mob.
Foxxx then began to be known more for his cameos on songs by Boogie Down Productions, Naughty By Nature, M.O.P., Missin Linx and, most notably, his appearance on Gang Starr's The Militia from their Moment Of Truth album (1998). The song was issued as a single, building a buzz for Foxxx and helping him to prep for his next full-length release.
This time around he applied the lessons he'd learnt from previous experiences with major record labels, and went the independent route. His album, Industry Shakedown would become the best-selling independently released album of 2000. The LP featured production from hip hop heavyweights DJ Premier, Pete Rock and The Alchemist. The members of M.O.P. provided the albums only cameo.
After the success of Industry Shakedown, Foxxx once again moved labels from Landspeed Records to BBE Records and released his third official album, Konexion (2003). A less commercially successful affair, the album was nevertheless faithful to its predecessor in terms of style and content and featured contributions from frequent collaborator DJ Premier, DJ Clark Kent and Foxxx himself under the alias of Hidden Agenda.
Foxxx was shouted out at the end of Tupac Shakur's classic diss song "Hit 'Em Up" (video version).
Foxxx made significant contributions to the WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006 soundtrack. He contributed two songs, and made a guest appearance on another song. He also produced all of the hip hop songs under his alias.
In 2006, he released a mixtape called Street Triumph, in anticipation of his fifth album, Amerikkan Black Man.
Industry Shakedown
Bumpy Knuckles Lyrics
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Yeah
Industry shakedown
I call this one
The industry shakedown
Word up
Uh huh
Industry shakedown
Now the reason I call it the industry shakedown
Is 'cuz a lot of niggas have fucked up
Word up, industry shakedown
Now what I mean by fucked up is
They don't wanna see the game played right
Word up, word up
So me and my nigga Pete Rock
Gon' show y'all how to play the game right
Get ready for the industry shakedown
Word up, word up
Word up, word up
I can't stop rockin'; I was born to keep it hot
Fought through miles of pain just to get what I got
Without crying, took mad shots without dying
Man, they know when I'm in town mad heads start flyin'
Whoever thought that I would be dealt the hand
That would make me the most feared lyrical man?
Ask Tone how it feel not to be able to sleep
I was layin' on him in his dream squeezing on the heat
I kept the pressure on him, now, I'm Universal
Now he played this money game called hand, reversal
I remember when I thought that I could rock at Def Jam
While I was watching other niggas caught up in a deaf scam
I remember when I stepped to Lyor, I should've blown him
'Cuz that cracker been a crook ever since I first known him
Thought I'd sail to Atlantic
But there's niggas workin' for 'em that'll sink the whole label
Like the fucking Titanic
What I gotta do is run some dick up in Sylvia Rhone
So she can hear Bumpy rockin' on this microphone
Maybe I can Electrify her brain
Show her how I take love and turn it to pain
I never been an ass-kisser
I call it if it's right--if rappers ain't gay or dikes
Then they unpluggin' your mic
My shit is cordless--I'm thugged out and wild as shit
And I'm comin' for my crown; it's Bumpy Knuckles, baby
And it's
The industry shakedown
Word up, word up
Ha!
Word up, word up
Ready for the industry shakedown
Yeah!
Word up, word up
Industry shakedown
Word up, word up
That's right, nigga
Me and my nigga Pete Rock gon' show you motherfuckers how to shake it down
You ready for this one? Check it out
When I spit hot potato, I was peepin' Tommy Boy
But didn't wanna be the next act that they would destroy
See, labels be all on your dick when they see you have some paper
But I flip the game 'cuz I pull the capers
Got way more nut than date rapers
You better be tryin' to get yourself an office
Way on top of that skyscraper
I bring the ruckus, your money lookin' proper
Have you ever been stuck up by a hardcore hip-hopper?
Forgot ya signed to Cappa, a real Donnie Brasco
A nigga wit' mics and tape recorders, all up in his asshole
Speakin' of police, I found a Interscope
And when I looked through the hole what I saw was dope
I saw a new nigga, sittin' behind a big desk
Wit' a big head and a big chest
And a big belly, talkin' on a celly
Hatin' real players, cuttin' niggas throats
Like he was tryin' to be the mayor
Then some niggas rushed in, punched him in his mouth
Threw him down on the floor and started stompin' him out
Screamin' fuck Steve Stoute, serve street justice
Cryin' on the floor wit' your lip all busted
You went out like a pussy, fuck the dough you got
'Cuz wit' all that money, nigga, you still can't buy a heart
Only gangstas play the part
I'm still around to bring you the industry shakedown
Ha!
Word up, word up
To the Pete Rock, and you don't stop
To the Pete Rock, and you don't stop
My nigga Pete Rock, and you don't stop
I never felt like I should have to hold back anything I say
So I make the kinda records Red Alert don't play
Because I flow too hard, my voice is penetratin'
Or maybe your crate needs renovatin'; I'm used to hatin'
That's why I'm hockey on you niggas, stickin' and skatin'
I heard about the Blaze Battle--they asked me to be in it
But to not consider me one of the fifty great
So I reviewed my tapes, figured my position
Sat and thought for a minute, grabbed the phone and said listen
I sell less records than some niggas out wit' a deal
Gettin' more cash and all my diamonds is real
And you want me to battle for a Rolie, that I'm-a take anyway
Better leave me the fuck alone; Bumpy Knucks don't play
It made me laugh when I think about how Gary Harris
Tried to play me, then got fired and all fuckin' embarrassed
Fly shit is that he saw me wit' a smile at a club
Reached to shake my fuckin' hand and brought back a nub
All them temporary spots will be filled time again
You can hate me now, but I will rhyme again
Fall down, climb again, more wild, more corrupt
Still spittin' more shit, more fire, more abrupt
And I'll never put my two guns down
Why's that?
'Cuz I need 'em for the industry shakedown
Word up, word up
C'mon!
Word up, word up
Yeah!
Industry shakedown
That's right
That's what the fuck I call a industry shakedown
Word up, word up
And it's a lotta motherfuckers out there that I didn't name in this
Motherfucking song, but I tell you this much
Get ready for the industry shakedown
Don't think I forgot motherfuckers 'cuz I reserve my options
It's Bumpy Knuckles, baby, ha
Word up, word up
And the Chocolate Boy Wonder
I show you niggas a fast way to six feet under
Industry shakedown
I call this one
The industry shakedown
Word up
Uh huh
Industry shakedown
Now the reason I call it the industry shakedown
Word up, industry shakedown
Now what I mean by fucked up is
They don't wanna see the game played right
Word up, word up
So me and my nigga Pete Rock
Gon' show y'all how to play the game right
Get ready for the industry shakedown
Word up, word up
Word up, word up
I can't stop rockin'; I was born to keep it hot
Fought through miles of pain just to get what I got
Without crying, took mad shots without dying
Man, they know when I'm in town mad heads start flyin'
Whoever thought that I would be dealt the hand
That would make me the most feared lyrical man?
Ask Tone how it feel not to be able to sleep
I was layin' on him in his dream squeezing on the heat
I kept the pressure on him, now, I'm Universal
Now he played this money game called hand, reversal
I remember when I thought that I could rock at Def Jam
While I was watching other niggas caught up in a deaf scam
I remember when I stepped to Lyor, I should've blown him
'Cuz that cracker been a crook ever since I first known him
Thought I'd sail to Atlantic
But there's niggas workin' for 'em that'll sink the whole label
Like the fucking Titanic
What I gotta do is run some dick up in Sylvia Rhone
So she can hear Bumpy rockin' on this microphone
Maybe I can Electrify her brain
Show her how I take love and turn it to pain
I never been an ass-kisser
I call it if it's right--if rappers ain't gay or dikes
Then they unpluggin' your mic
My shit is cordless--I'm thugged out and wild as shit
And I'm comin' for my crown; it's Bumpy Knuckles, baby
And it's
The industry shakedown
Word up, word up
Ha!
Word up, word up
Ready for the industry shakedown
Yeah!
Word up, word up
Industry shakedown
Word up, word up
That's right, nigga
Me and my nigga Pete Rock gon' show you motherfuckers how to shake it down
You ready for this one? Check it out
When I spit hot potato, I was peepin' Tommy Boy
But didn't wanna be the next act that they would destroy
See, labels be all on your dick when they see you have some paper
But I flip the game 'cuz I pull the capers
Got way more nut than date rapers
You better be tryin' to get yourself an office
Way on top of that skyscraper
I bring the ruckus, your money lookin' proper
Have you ever been stuck up by a hardcore hip-hopper?
Forgot ya signed to Cappa, a real Donnie Brasco
A nigga wit' mics and tape recorders, all up in his asshole
Speakin' of police, I found a Interscope
And when I looked through the hole what I saw was dope
I saw a new nigga, sittin' behind a big desk
Wit' a big head and a big chest
And a big belly, talkin' on a celly
Hatin' real players, cuttin' niggas throats
Like he was tryin' to be the mayor
Then some niggas rushed in, punched him in his mouth
Threw him down on the floor and started stompin' him out
Screamin' fuck Steve Stoute, serve street justice
Cryin' on the floor wit' your lip all busted
You went out like a pussy, fuck the dough you got
'Cuz wit' all that money, nigga, you still can't buy a heart
Only gangstas play the part
I'm still around to bring you the industry shakedown
Ha!
Word up, word up
To the Pete Rock, and you don't stop
To the Pete Rock, and you don't stop
My nigga Pete Rock, and you don't stop
I never felt like I should have to hold back anything I say
So I make the kinda records Red Alert don't play
Because I flow too hard, my voice is penetratin'
Or maybe your crate needs renovatin'; I'm used to hatin'
That's why I'm hockey on you niggas, stickin' and skatin'
I heard about the Blaze Battle--they asked me to be in it
But to not consider me one of the fifty great
So I reviewed my tapes, figured my position
Sat and thought for a minute, grabbed the phone and said listen
I sell less records than some niggas out wit' a deal
Gettin' more cash and all my diamonds is real
And you want me to battle for a Rolie, that I'm-a take anyway
Better leave me the fuck alone; Bumpy Knucks don't play
It made me laugh when I think about how Gary Harris
Tried to play me, then got fired and all fuckin' embarrassed
Fly shit is that he saw me wit' a smile at a club
Reached to shake my fuckin' hand and brought back a nub
All them temporary spots will be filled time again
You can hate me now, but I will rhyme again
Fall down, climb again, more wild, more corrupt
Still spittin' more shit, more fire, more abrupt
And I'll never put my two guns down
Why's that?
'Cuz I need 'em for the industry shakedown
Word up, word up
C'mon!
Word up, word up
Yeah!
Industry shakedown
That's right
That's what the fuck I call a industry shakedown
Word up, word up
And it's a lotta motherfuckers out there that I didn't name in this
Motherfucking song, but I tell you this much
Get ready for the industry shakedown
Don't think I forgot motherfuckers 'cuz I reserve my options
It's Bumpy Knuckles, baby, ha
Word up, word up
And the Chocolate Boy Wonder
I show you niggas a fast way to six feet under
In "Industry Shakedown," Bumpy Knuckles speaks candidly about his personal experiences with the music industry. He begins with a declaration of the industry shakedown, placing blame on those who have "fucked up" the game. He calls on Pete Rock to help him show people how to play the game right. Bumpy Knuckles then goes on to describe his journey in the industry, from fighting through struggles to finally reaching success. He speaks about his triumphs in the face of adversity, including defying record labels and taking control of his own destiny.
The lyrics of the song also reference several individuals that Bumpy Knuckles has had encounters with in the industry. He mentions Tone, a man he threatened in his dreams, and Steve Stoute, whom some men that Bumpy Knuckles had never met rush in to attack. There is also a reference to Gary Harris, a former executive at Def Jam, who tried to play Bumpy Knuckles but ultimately failed. In the end, Bumpy Knuckles concludes that he will never put his "two guns down" because he needs them for the industry shakedown.
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Ponda Baba
The fact you even reading this makes me respect you as a hip hop head more than my friends.
ron L
Respect tun
Renard Thomas
The respect is mutual.π―
Marvelle.ModBars
we back at it 2022
Sound Mind Body Divine
One of the top ten albums for real niggas worldwide. C'mon bro...
Anthony Mcmillan
Much respect for those REAL words Gπππͺ!!! Been a fan since the Malitia(98)!!
Bun B
Straight dope, Bumpy the most UNDERRATED rapper...PERIOD
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