''A Constipated Monkey'' is the debut studio album by American rapper

Kurious Jorge Antonio Alvarez (born May 1, 1970), better known by his stage names Kurious or Kurious Jorge, is an American hip hop recording artist from New York City. Biography Kurious is of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, and grew up in the Upper ...

. It was released on January 18, 1994, through Hoppoh Recordings/

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. The recording sessions took place in New York at

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, Rampant Recording Studio, and LGK Studios. The album was produced by

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, Stimulated Dummies,

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and

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, and Bosco Money of Downtown Science. It features

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s from Casual,

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Psycho Les The Beatnuts is an American hip hop group and production duo from New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les. JuJu (born Jerry Tineo on December 14, 1968) is a Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les (born Lester Fernandez ...

, Kadi and the Omen. The album peaked at No. 68 on the

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and No. 31 on the

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in the United States. ''A Constipated Monkey'' produced three singles: "Walk Like a Duck", "Uptown Shit" and "I'm Kurious".

Track listing

* Production for "Fresh Out the Box" was mistakenly credited to the Beatnuts. Both the writing credits and comments by Dante Ross show that it was produced by the Stimulated Dummies.

Charts

References

External links

* 1994 debut albums Kurious albums Columbia Records albums Albums produced by the Beatnuts Albums produced by Dante Ross Albums produced by John Gamble (record producer) Albums recorded at Chung King Studios {{1990s-hiphop-album-stub