Before there was Justin Beaver, there was Peanut Eminem, and before Peanut Eminem there was someone else, and before that guy there was Marquee Mark and — If Memory Swerves™ — 'twas on this day in music history (October 5, 1991) that he and his dope ass band of bruthas from anotha' mutha — the Funky Bunch — hit the top of the Billboard® Charts with “Good Vibrations.” Number One with a Constable’s bullet! Back in the day, the shirtless, street-hustlin' lil' mack daddy — and church-goin' kid brother of Magnum P.I. sidekick, screen chewer-upper Donnie Mark — discovered his gift for lookin’ fly in a bloody jailhouse mirror. When he met up with his homies in the yard — Scottie Gee, DJ-T and Hector the Booty Inspector™ — they commenced to bustin’ moves, flowin’ rhymes and exposing their BVD® underdrawers with streetwise aplomb. This was no run-of-the-gin-mill assemblage of punk ass bitches samplin' weak ass beats, neither. I have it on good authority — which is to say a random fan page from the previous millenia — that these gangstas had all kinds of muthafuckin' game, kickin' it new school, off the chain and/or hook, yo. Marquee would go on to produce a workout video and has enjoyed some success under his porn de plume Dirk Diggler, but his first turn in the spotlight was the shit. A doff of the backward ball cap to Marquee Mark — the original M&M — and the Funky Bunch. Playas!
