{{short description|American hip hop group}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2012}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Funk Mobb | image = Da Funk Mobb.jpg | caption = From left to right: G-Note, K-1 and Mac Shawn in the studio. From the album's liner notes. | alias = | origin = Vallejo, California, U.S. | genre = {{hlist|West Coast hip hop|gangsta rap}} | years_active = 1994–1998 | label = {{hlist|Sick Wid It|Jive}} | website = | current_members = K-1<br />G-Note<br />Mac Shawn }}

'''Funk Mobb''' was an American, short-lived rap group composed of Bay Area rappers, K-1, G-Note and Mac Shawn who were signed by Sick Wid It and Jive Records. They were active from 1994 to 1998, first appearing on Little Bruce's debut album, XXXtra Mannish and then releasing their one and only album in 1996, ''It Ain't 4 Play''. It peaked at number 46 on the ''Billboard'' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at number 28 on the ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r237859|pure_url=yes}} ((( It Ain't 4 Play > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))]. All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved on 2010-01-01.</ref> After the album the group would disband with Mac Shawn releasing two albums, 1997's ''Music fo' the Mobb'' and 2001's ''Worldwide Bosses and Playas'' and even joining Death Row Records for a short while. In 1999 G-Note joined No Limit Records<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.angelfire.com/fl2/southsideballers/lilitaly.bio.html |title=Archived copy |website=Angelfire |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111014810/http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/southsideballers/lilitaly.bio.html |archive-date=11 November 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> and changed his name to Lil Italy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bossplayers1 |title=Boss Players &#124; The Clicks D-Shot Presents: Boss Players Vol 1 |publisher=CD Baby |date= |accessdate=2012-04-04}}</ref> There he released his debut solo album, ''On Top of da World''.

==Discography== ===Studio albums=== *''It Ain't 4 Play'' (1996)

===Solo projects=== *Mac Shawn – ''Music fo' tha' Mobb'' (1997) *G-Note – ''On Top of da World'' (1999) *G-Note – ''Full Blown'' (2001) *Mac Shawn Presents – ''Worldwide Bosses and Playas'' (2001)

===Guest appearances=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Album ! Song |- || 1992 | ''Tryin' to Get a Buck'' | "Just Living" (B-Legit featuring Mac Shawn) |- |rowspan="2"| 1994 | ''XXXtra Manish'' | "Funk Mobb Niggaz" (Little Bruce featuring Funk Mobb) |- | ''Heat 4 Yo Azz'' | "Pimp's, Playa's and Hustla's" (Celly Cel featuring Funk Mobb) |- |rowspan="2"| 1995 | ''In a Major Way'' | "Sideways" (E-40 featuring B-Legit, Mac Shawn) |- | ''The Hogg in Me'' | "Time to Mobb" (Funk Mobb featuring Levitti, Little Bruce) |- |rowspan="2"| 1996 | ''Paper Chasin''' | "Hustlas and Tendas" (Suga-T featuring B-Legit, Funk Mobb) |- | ''The Hemp Museum'' | "My Flow of Cash" (B-Legit featuring Funk Mobb) |- |rowspan="3"| 1998 | ''The Golden Bay'' compilation | "The Akadomma Family" (B-Legit, Funk Mobb, Levitti) |- | ''3 Beam Circus'' compilation | "Get Yo' Wig Split" (Funk Mobb) |- | ''The Rumble'' | "Bay Area Playaz" (N2Deep featuring Mac Shawn, Taydatay, Cougnut, Da' Unda' Dogg, Kaveo, Baby Beesh, Don Cisco, J Sweets) |- |rowspan="3"| 1999 | ''Hempin' Ain't Easy'' | "Keep It P.I." (B-Legit featuring Mac Shawn) |- |rowspan="2"|''Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000'' | "I Thought You Knew" (Mac Shawn featuring E-40, Daz Dillinger) |- | "It's Goin' Down" (Mac Shawn featuring Daz Dillinger, Tha Realest) |- |rowspan="2"| 2000 | ''Too Gangsta for Radio'' | "Real Type Gangsta" (Mac Shawn) |- | ''707'' compilation | "From the Wrist" (Funk Mobb, B-Legit, Little Bruce) |- || 2001 | ''2002'' | "Your Gyrlfriend 2" (Tha Dogg Pound featuring Mac Shawn, Soopafly) |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p182455|label=Funk Mobb}} * [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Funk+Mobb Funk Mobb] at Discogs

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Category:Hip-hop groups from California Category:Jive Records artists Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1998 Category:Musical groups established in 1994 Category:Musical groups from the San Francisco Bay Area Category:Musical trios from California Category:Musicians from Vallejo, California Category:Gangsta rap groups Category:1994 establishments in California