Flavor Unit

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The Flavor Unit is a crew of emcees and DJs from New York City and Northern New Jersey. It is now known as the Unit. The original version of the crew centered around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. It was Mark's connections to Radio personalities Cool DJ Red Alert and Chuck ChillOut that gave the crew quick notoriety. It did not hurt that the original members all had skills and wrote street wise lyrics. The 45 King eventually fell into serious drug abuse, and Queen Latifah took over the name, and it became her umbrella organization. Flavor Unit Management is run by Queen Latifah, one of the original members of the Flavor Unit, and Shakim Compere. Past management clients are Monica, OutKast, Faith Evans, Total, SWV, Almighty RSO (A group featuring Ray Dog, better known today as Benzino), Groove Theory, Monifah, Gina Thompson, LL Cool J, Zhané, Donell Jones, and Naughty By Nature.

[edit] Members

Names marked with an asterisk denote artists who were managed by Flavor Unit but were not part of the original crew.

• Apache
• Aposouls*
• The Athletes*
• Black Sheep*
• Channel Live*
• Chill Rob G
• Confidential
• DJ Mark the 45 King
• Lakim Shabazz
• Latee
• LeShaun*
• Lord Alibaski
• Naughty by Nature
• Nikki D*
• Queen Latifah
• Rowdy Rahz*
• Storm P*
• Zhané*

[edit] Discography

• 1990 The 45 King presents The Flavor Unit (Tuff City)
• 1993 Roll Wit The Flava
• 2000 Flavor Unit 10th Anniversary (Flavor Unit Records)
• 2002 The Unit: 100% Hater Proof (Flavor Unit Records)