F.U. Don't Take It Personal

F.U. Don't Take It Personal is the debut studio album from American hip hop group Fu-Schnickens, released February 25, 1992, on Jive Records. The recording sessions took place at Battery Studios in New York, New York.

The album peaked at number sixty-four on the Billboard 200 chart. By late 1992, it was certified gold by the RIAA, for shipping 500,000 copies in the United States.

Background
The album was recorded at Battery Studios in New York, New York.

Critical reception
In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau praised Fu-Schnickens' ideas and illusory rhymes, calling the group "rappers whose visions of fun, agape, and aural conquest remain open-ended, playful, and, face it, silly". The Kitchener-Waterloo Record wrote that the production "tends to muddy things to the extent that the group's grating, high-speed raps are almost lost."

Stanton Swihart at AllMusic wrote in retrospect that "although their fashion sense (kung fu outfits on the cover) and taste in influences may have initially painted them as a novelty, their approach to music was straight serious on this debut album, and it shows."

Commercial performance
F.U. Don't Take It Personal peaked at sixty-four on the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached the thirteenth spot on the R&B Albums chart. The album was certified gold in 1992.

Personnel

 * assistant engineering – Charlie Allen, Pete Christensen, Eric Gast, Gerard Julien, Tim Latham
 * engineering – Barbera Aimes, Anthony Saunders
 * mixing – Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Bob Power, Chris Trevett
 * production – A Tribe Called Quest, Fu-Schnickens, Lyvio G.
 * vocals (background) – Debbie Lewis Aimes, Kia Jeffries, Hirami Kuroimo, Sally Ries