It came out on the independent New York label Fresh / Sleeping Bag label in 1986 and sounded like no other hip-hop album, thanks to his fast, forceful rhymes, human beatbox DMX, and the distinctive production of Mantronix's Kurtis Mantronik.

The album continued in and expanded on the hip-hop / electro funk / dance music vein of its predecessor, eventually reaching # 18 on the Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums chart, Mantronix's highest showing for an album.

Mantronix's debut single, " Fresh Is the Word ," was a club hit in 1985, reaching # 16 on Billboard Magazine's Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, and was featured on Mantronix: The Album which was released the same year.

Mantronix's final release, with vocalist Jade Trini replacing D. J.

Mantronix's second album, Music Madness, was released in 1986.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

He was a founding member and the de facto early leader of the influential Bourbaki group.

Along with the Chicago Bears, the club is one of two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding.

Under Abdülaziz's reign, Turkey's first postage stamps were issued in 1863, and Turkey joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875 as a founding member.

It is a founding member of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance ( Rio Treaty ).

Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meier worked for him in this period.

This influence culminated with the addition of Der Blaue Reiter founding member Wassily Kandinsky to the faculty and ended when Itten resigned in late 1922.

* Beeb Birtles, a singer-songwriter and a founding member of Little River Band.

Potter had been a disciple of the land conservation and preservation ideals of her long-time friend and mentor, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, the first secretary and founding member of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.

He is best known as a founding member of and lead guitarist for the band Widespread Panic.

Chile is a founding member of the United Nations, the Union of South American Nations and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

Cuba is currently a lead country on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is a founding member of the organization known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a member of the Latin American Integration Association and the United Nations.

It is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK, and is a founding member of the European Beer Consumers ' Union ( EBCU ).

Carl Meinhof was the great-uncle ( the brother of the grandfather ) of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the German Red Army Faction ( RAF ), a left-wing militant group, which operated in West Germany in 1970s and 1980s.

The Xinhai Revolution ultimately succeeded with the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, and Chiang became a founding member of the KMT.

Neil is the younger brother of Split Enz founding member Tim Finn, who joined Crowded House in 1990 on vocals, guitars and keyboards for the album Woodface.

* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

Eastman is credited as a founding member of the ACLU, but her role as founder of the NCLB may have been largely ignored by posterity due to her personal differences with Baldwin.

Denmark has been a member of NATO since its founding in 1949, and membership in NATO remains highly popular.

The Disciples continues to relate to the National Council of Churches, of which it was a founding member.

A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th century United States.

The DPP is a member of Liberal International and a founding member of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats.

Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.

Meanwhile, the drum break from the second version of the original 1969 hit " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " ( the recording included on the compilation album In the Jungle Groove ) became so popular at hip hop dance parties ( especially for breakdance ) during the late 1970s and early 1980s that hip hop founding father Kurtis Blow called the song " the national anthem of hip hop ".

Greatest Hits 1982-1989-the band's 20th release overall-is also notable for being Chicago's last release before the departure of founding drummer Danny Seraphine and the home to a ( slightly ) remixed hit, " What Kind of Man Would I Be?

The Liberty First Baptist Church had existed prior to the city ’ s founding, being located at the old Liberty Spring site.

It purchased land in Claremont, Virgin with the intention of founding Liberty University.

Based on its founding tradition, the Freie Universität ’ s seal to this day bears the Latin terms for Truth, Justice, and Liberty.

Since its founding in 1776, the United States has regarded and promoted itself as an Empire of Liberty and prosperity.

This opinion alone engendered a bitter split from Garrison, and Whittier went on to become a founding member of the Liberty Party in 1839.

Liberty Lobby was the subject of much criticism from all quarters of the political spectrum from the first day of its founding.

Ex-Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Tom Brady and various members of the White Citizens ' Councils who had worked to established the JCR, also contributed to the founding of Liberty Lobby.

* Sons of Liberty founding member

EFA is a founding member of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign.

In his years in Boston before founding the Gazette, Fowle, a slave-holder, was the first to print the words of Samuel Adams, and had spent time in prison for printing anti-British pamphlets " The Monster of Monsters " and " A Total Eclipse of Liberty.

In the fifteen years following its founding, ELDI focused on rehabilitating some of the East Liberty ’ s historic commercial spaces.