Flavor Unit

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 DJ Red Alert and DJ Chuck Chillout, who gave the crew quick notoriety. It did not hurt that the original members all had formidable rhyme skills and wrote streetwise 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 Latifah, one of the original members of the Flavor Unit, and Shakim Compere. Past management clients were 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.

Members

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

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

Discography

• 1990: The 45 King presents The Flavor Unit (Tuff City)
• 1993: Roll Wit The Flava
• 2000: Flavor Unit 10th Anniversary (Flavor Unit Records)^[1]
• 2002: The Unit: 100% Hater Proof (Flavor Unit Records)

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