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. All four members appeared on fellow Wu-Tang affiliate

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's first two albums, 1994's ''

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'' and 1996's '' The Lost Generation'', with their first official appearance as a group being on the track entitled "5 Elements" from the latter. The group released their first and only album '' Don't Go Against the Grain'' in 1997 through

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. The album was met with little success and only reached No. 44 on the ''Billboard''

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. Following the album, the group went their separate ways, with Pop Da Brown Hornet being the only one to release a solo album, 2000's ''The Undaground Emperor''.

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