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Due to their involvement with Ruthless Records, co-producer credits were added for Dr. Fad accessible to pop audiences-unlike many West Coast rappers of the day-by including electro elements in their music. The single was followed by the album Supersonic, produced by Arabian Prince, who made J.J. It sold 400,000 copies independently before Eazy-E and Jerry Heller secured the group a major-label recording contract with Atco Records.

The remaining original members (Burns and Birks) were joined by Michelle Franklin (Sassy C.) and DJ Train, and together they re-recorded and re-released “Supersonic” in 1988, this time as the A-side. In 1987, this line-up released its only recording, the single “Anotha Ho” backed with “Supersonic” (“Anotha Ho” was the A-side), both produced by N.W.A.affiliate Arabian Prince.ĭue to management and financial disagreements, Cash, Shaheed and Lee quit the group, leaving J.J. It was one of the original acts signed to Ruthless Records by Eazy-E. Fad began in 1985 as a quintet comprising Juana Burns (MC J.B.), Dania Birks (Baby-D), Anna Cash (Lady Anna), Fatima Shaheed (O.G. Sugarhill Presents The Sequence can be considered the first Hip Hop LP in Hip Hop history released by female artists – in fact, it’s one of the first Hip Hop albums ever PERIOD, together with the first Sugar Hill compilation and Kurtis Blow’s debut album that both were released in 1980 too. Their most notable single was “ Funk You Up” (1979), which was the first rap record released by a female group and the second single released by Sugar Hill Records. The trio was noticed when they bum-rushed a performance by the Sugarhill Gang and sang for them and Sylvia Robinson backstage. The group consisted of Cheryl Cook, known as “Cheryl The Pearl”, Gwendolyn Chisolm, known as “Blondie” and lead singer/ rapper Angie Brown Stone, as Angie B. The Sequence is noted as the first female Hip Hop group signed to the Sugar Hill Records label in the late–1970s and early–1980s. The Sequence was an all-female trio from Columbia, South Carolina, that formed in 1979. The Sequence - Sugarhill Presents The Sequence (1980)