I Love Ya But You’re Strange is a feature that spotlights strange but ultimately endearing comic stories. Today, we look at the time that the entire Marvel Universe was trying to destroy…Kid ‘n’ Play?!?
Today is former CBR managing editor Albert Ching’s birthday (well, it still is his birthday in California, which is where he lives, so it still counts), and since he loves 1990s awesomeness, I like doing a 1990s-themed article for him every year (last year it was about Marvel’s Swmsuit Specials, and the year before that it was a look at insta-mullets). This time around, we look at one of the short-lived, but very popular rap group, Kid ‘n’ Play, who were briefly EVERYWHERE in the early 1990s, from hit rap songs, to hit movies, to even their own cartoon series!
Christopher Reid (“Kid”) and Christopher Martin (“Play”) were in rival rap groups during high school, but then decided to start working together in 1986. In 1987, the adopted the stage names of Kid and Play, and became the the rap duo known as Kid ‘n’ Play. They released their first album, 2 Hype, in 1988. It was a minor hit, but their biggest success would come in 1990, when not only would they release their second album, Funhouse, but a week before their album dropped, they made their major motion picture debut as the stars of the hit film, House Party, which was written and directed by Reginald Hudlin (later a notable comic book writer himself), for New Line Cinemas, as an adaptation of Hudlin’s acclaimed student film of the same name that he had done at Harvard University.
I Love Ya But You’re Strange is a feature that spotlights strange but ultimately endearing comic stories. Today, we look at the time that the entire Marvel Universe was trying to destroy…Kid ‘n’ Play?!?
Today is former CBR managing editor Albert Ching‘s birthday (well, it still is his birthday in California, which is where he lives, so it still counts), and since he loves 1990s awesomeness, I like doing a 1990s-themed article for him every year (last year it was about Marvel’s Swmsuit Specials, and the year before that it was a look at insta-mullets). This time around, we look at one of the short-lived, but very popular rap group, Kid ‘n’ Play, who were briefly EVERYWHERE in the early 1990s, from hit rap songs, to hit movies, to even their own cartoon series!
Christopher Reid (“Kid”) and Christopher Martin (“Play”) were in rival rap groups during high school, but then decided to start working together in 1986. In 1987, the adopted the stage names of Kid and Play, and became the the rap duo known as Kid ‘n’ Play. They released their first album, 2 Hype, in 1988. It was a minor hit, but their biggest success would come in 1990, when not only would they release their second album, Funhouse, but a week before their album dropped, they made their major motion picture debut as the stars of the hit film, House Party, which was written and directed by Reginald Hudlin (later a notable comic book writer himself), for New Line Cinemas, as an adaptation of Hudlin’s acclaimed student film of the same name that he had done at Harvard University.
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