Biography

IN 1982, Whodini--Jalil Hutchins (aka Jalil), John Fletcher (aka Ecstasy), and Drew Carter (DJ Grandmaster Dee)-- emerged out of Brooklyn, with management help from Russell Simmons and production assistance from Thomas Dolby, for their self-titled debut on Jive Records. Over the next four years, three albums, and smash party tracks such as “Magic’s Wand,” “Friends” (later sampled by Nas in “If I Ruled The World”), and “Freaks Come Out At Night,” helped cement the group’s place in the early history of hip-hop. Despite being signed by former dancer Jermaine Dupri for a comeback album in 1996, the group had trouble continuing their signature good-time sound, though Whodini were acknowledged in 2007 at VH1’s Hip-Hip Honors.

Top Tracks

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• Be Yourself

• Big Mouth

• Five Minutes Of Funk

• Freaks Come Out At Night

• Friends

• Fugitive

• Funky Beat

• Growing Up

• Haunted House Of Rock

• Magic's Wand

• One Love

• The Haunted House Of Rock [extended Version]

Discography

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• Six

  So So Def Recordings / So So Def/Columbia

  1996

• Bag-A-Trix

  MCA

  1991

• Open Sesame

  Jive

  1987

• Back in Black

  Jive

  1986

• Escape

  Traffic Entertainment Group

  1984

• Whodini

  Traffic Entertainment Group

  1983