| Crazy Noise | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Stezo |
| Cover: | Crazy_Noise.jpg |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Recorded: | 1988–1989 |
| Genre: | Hip hop, East Coast hip hop |
| Length: | 44:29 |
| Label: | Sleeping Bag Records |
| Producer: | Stezo |
| Next Title: | Where's the Funk At |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
Crazy Noise is the 1989 debut album by New Haven, Connecticut rapper and producer Stezo. After being a dancer for hip-hop group EPMD, Stezo signed a solo record deal with Sleeping Bag Records and recorded this debut album. It features two charting singles: "Freak the Funk" and "It's My Turn".[1] "It's My Turn" was the first recorded sample of the drum break in the Skull Snaps song "It's a New Day".[2] This break would become one of the most commonly sampled drum breaks for hip-hop music in the 1990s.
| Year | Title | Hot Rap Songs[3] | Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop[4] | Dance Club Songs[5] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | "To the Max" | align="center" | - | align="center" | - | 39 |
| "It's My Turn" | 18 | 57 | align="center" | - | ||
| "Freak the Funk" | align="center" | - | 85 | align="center" | - |