Buckwheat Boyz
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| Buckwheat Boyz | |
|---|---|
| Origin |  Miami, Florida, United States |
| Genre(s) | Hip hop |
The Buckwheat Boyz was a Florida-based quartet responsible for the rap song "Peanut Butter Jelly Time," which became an Internet superhit after a video using the song was published on the internet, featuring a dancing banana.
The group, founded in 1997 and disbanded in 2001, consisted of Marcus Bowens, Jermain Fuller, J.J. O'Neal, and Dougy Williams. Their eponymous full-length record, released on Koch Records, also included the song "Ice Cream and Cake."
Jermain Fuller (one of the two founding members, along with Marcus Bowens) died in 2000, and the group disbanded the next year. Marcus later moved to Alabama and became a gospel musician under the stage name Gumbo, and J.J. O'Neal eventually became a stage actor who heads a local theater's rendition of Cats.
The Ying Yang Twins made a remix of "Peanut Butter Jelly Time".
Yahoo! Current Buzz featured "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" on November 6, 2006.
