| Funk Your Head Up | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Ultramagnetic MCs |
| Cover: | UltramagneticMCsFunkYourHeadUpAlbumCover.jpeg |
| Released: | March 17, 1992 |
| Recorded: | 1990–1992 |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Length: | 1:09:54 |
| Prev Title: | Critical Beatdown |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | The Four Horsemen |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
Funk Your Head Up is the second studio album by American hip hop group Ultramagnetic MCs. It was released on March 17, 1992, via Mercury Records/PolyGram.
Many of the tracks were remixed by outside producers at Mercury Records' insistence. The result was an album that disappointed hardcore fans of the group, while doing little to improve their sales. The sole hit single was a Beatminerz remix of "Poppa Large" that was not included on the album.
Trouser Press wrote: "If hip-hop were only about clever lyrics and concrete breakbeats, the UMC’s might have been on top of the world. But next to the street socio-politics of Ice Cube, the gangsta dramatics of Dr. Dre and the shock gimmickry of Geto Boys, Ultramagnetics were beginning to sound nostalgic."[1]
In a retrospective review, The Quietus called the album "flawed but frequently magnificent," writing that the production "redefines the concept of funk for the hip hop era and gives Keith's rhymes, in particular, the sort of blaxploitation-via-sci-fi setting they uniquely demanded."[2]
Web site: Ultramagnetic MC's - Funk Your Head Up. Discogs. en.