Before forming Onyx, Fredro Starr used to be a barber. Fredro would cut hair for Rakim, the late Jam Master Jay, Big Daddy Kane, and all the local drug dealers in Queens. Fredro Starr started working at Nu Tribe Barber Shop on Jamaica Avenue in Queens when he was 15 years old and always had long

In 1986, Eric B.—then a DJ at WBLS in New York—was looking for rappers to work with. Eric B went to Long Island and met Alvin Toney a promoter who suggested Freddie Foxxx. Freddie Foxxx also lived in Long Island and when they got to his house, he wasn’t home, so the promoter suggested they