
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!

MC Plotz
