Category Archives: The Funky Hunks

The Funky Hunks – Greatest Hits Album

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Read N’ Plenty (Known Today as Bookshelf Q. Battler, Proprietor of a Website With 3.5 Readers)

The Funky Hunks.  Bookshelf Q. Battler and Bernie Plotznick, or as you knew them back in the day, Read N’ Plenty and MC Plotz.

They were the most wholesome, least controversial rap duo ever assembled, and that’s why your moms listened to them more than you did.

Relive the late 1990’s again with these non-threatening songs:

  • “Get Yo Milk On, Sucka”
  • “Look Both Ways Before You Cross Da Street, Playa”
  • “Straight Up Recyclin'”
  • “Girl…We Should Get to Know Each Other in an Extended Courtship First”
  • “Damn Baby, I’mma Have Yo Ass Home By 10:30 P.M.”
  • “Hygiene, What’s It Mean?”
  • “Carrots B. Tas-tay”
  • “Word to Yo Toothbrush”
  • “Call Yo Damn Grandma, Fool”
  • “Tell That Stranger to Step Off”
  • “Fight 4 Da Right to Bedazzle”
  • “Homework Betta Recognize”
  • “Can’t a Dawg Get a Decent Pair of Slacks at a Reasonable Price Up in This Bitch?”
  • “Fs Go Away, I’m A Plussin Everday”
  • “Straight Outta Bean Dip”
  • “Me So Studious”
  • “Etiquette Yourself Before You Wrecketiquette Yourself”
  • “Cuz I Got High…On Life”
  • “Break Me Off a Piece of Dat Bran Muffin”
  • “Girl, I’mma Need Your Unequivocal, Verbalized Permission Before I Kiss You”
  • “I Wanna Be a Decent, Stand-Up Taxpaying Citizen So Friggin’ Bad”
  • “Put Yo Clothes On Girl, I Barely Know You”
  • “Mad Hella Fiber in My Diet, Son”
  • “If You Aint Floss, Yo Teeth Aint Clean, Sucka”
  • “Increasing Auto Insurance Rates Be Everyone’s Problem, Ya Heard?”
  • “Girl, I’mma Come Inside and Say Hello to Yo Pops Before I Take You to Da Movies and Keep My Hands to My Mutha Truckin’ Self Da Entire Time”
  • “Wheat Grass Aint No Joke”
  • “Straight Up Tippin Dat Hard Workin’ Waitress”
  • “Wash a Dish…Wipe a Dish”
  • “Bake a Cake for a Homeless Veteran, Cuz”
  • “I’mma Dream It, I’mma Do It”
  • “I Got 99 Problems But Bad Manners Aint One”
  • “Bustin Caps…on the Soda Bottle B4 It Go Flat”
  • “Damn It Feels Good to Turn Off a Light and Save My Parents Some Money on the Electric Bill”

All these hits and more, wherever wholesome late 90s rap songs are sold!

What were your favorite Funky Hunk jams? Post them in the comments!

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MC Plotz

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MC Plotz Gives You the What What

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Bernie “MC Plotz” Plotznick (Please buy one of his nectarines…only, don’t tell him this blog asked you. Pretend like you really love nectarines. Thanks.)

Yo yo yo what up 3.5 peeps?   Word to ya momz cuz I came to drop verbal bombs!

Bernie “MC Plotz” Plotznick here.

Yeah, I’m sure you all remember me from my days when Bookshelf Q. Battler and I formed the dopest, chillest, funky freshiest rap duo, The Funky Hunks!

I just wanna note that rumors that I now sell oranges off a highway offramp are totally false.  (I switched it up to nectarines.)

Anyway, my old rap buddy Bookshelf Q. Battler aka “Read N. Plenty” (his rap moniker back in the day) is the kind of guy that never forgets the little people and he’s given me a guest spot to announce what’s coming up this week on the Bookshelf Battle Blog:

  • Pop Culture Mysteries – Jake Hatcher tracks down answers to long standing entertainment questions. His first mystery?  What happened to the original Brady Bunch spouses?  Hell, Mike had a wife before Carol and Carol had a husband before Mike, right?  How else did they get all those kids?  BQB’s 3.5 readers want to know what happened to the first wife and first husband and Hatcher’s on the case.  Those posts will drop Monday-Wednesday.
  • Bookshelf Q. Battler and the Meaning of Life – Oh higgity hellz yeah, y’all.  BQB’s epic search for the answer to mankind’s most vexing question will return later this week.  Upcoming developments?  You’ll learn Bookshelf Q. Battler’s real name AND BQB finds romance.  Yeah, ya’ heard.  Homeboy is a mad dope funky fresh playa who’s gonna be chillin and mackin on a fine ass hunny.

Who remembers when BQB and I busted out mad rhymes?  No one.  C’mon y’all.  Throw yo’ hands in the air if you got love for the dorkiest nerds in the rap game.  Wait, I think a see a hand!  What?  You were just stretching?

‘Aight then.

See, BQB and I preferred to rap about wholesome activities, like drinking milk and doing your homework.  Unsurprisingly, this meant we were universally rejected by rap fans though we did find an audience in the soccer mom crowd.  Oh well.  Maybe we shoulda’ tossed a swear or two but it’s all good.  Hindsight’s 20/20 ya’ dig?

I’ll leave you with the lyrics from our 2000 hit – “Chores Be Fun” off our debut album Nonthreatening White Boyz:

Chores Be Fun

By:  The Funky Hunks

Yo!  It’s 2000!  Nothin’ rhymes with two thousand!

Funky Hunks, you know we’re back!

On the scene, ready to attack!

Gonna organize your closet

Get in your shower,

Scrub away the lyme deposits.

Funky hunks, you know its true!

Nothin’ for a friend, we wouldn’t do!

Dance to the funky hunk groove,

Call us up!

And we’ll help you move!

Carry all your heavy stuff!

‘Cuz the Funky Funks are so damn buff!

Brew you a nice hot tea…

Get your stuck cat outta that tree…

Cuz that’s what Funky Hunks do!

Now we’ll go and shine your shoe!

Ughh…Yeah…break it down

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