# 2,596
New Style, The “Scuffin’ Those Knees” b/w “To The Extreme” (1989)
This is the type of record you’d thumb through the 12” single bins, find it, and lift it up for a few seconds because you appreciate or lived through late Eighties hip-hop. You’re about to slide it back into the bin and then…oh shit…is that Vinny Brown from Naughty By Nature?! That’s Treach to the right (here known as Treacherous) and Kay Gee standing tall with a flat-top and gold chain. Five dollars later, it’s yours because Naughty By Nature was your early Nineties and you knew no one said a single bad thing about them. New Jersey’s The New Style had this 12” and one album Independent Leaders out when their mentor Queen Latifah changed them for the better, becoming the more thugged-out Naughty to win big with their debut single “O.P.P.” (1991). “Scuffin’ Those Knees” sounds radically different than their more serious days of “Everything’s Gonna’ Be Alright” or “Uptown Anthem”; more like a party shaker that may even remind you of Big Daddy Kane’s “Raw” (1987) that sampled Mantronix’ “King Of The Beats” (1988) and The Beastie Boys “The New Style” (1986).
