Some bands have that special "it" factor right out of the gate. American reggae-punk outfit Bad Brains fits that criterion.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bad Brains in 1993. (Credit: Niels van Iperen/Getty Images) Paul and Earl Hudson were born to a Jamaican mother and an American ...

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I Against I was new or just a few years old, it was commonplace for some fans to dismiss it by comparing it to Bad Brains’ landmark, rightly heralded ...

Paul and Earl Hudson were born to a Jamaican mother and an American father who worked as a mechanic for the U.S. Air Force, and they moved all over the country before settling down in Washington, D.C.