Welcome to Magical Brooklyn! It's a weird place with many magical and fantastic happenings. But it's also the home of effnocka and FUCKFORCE, two out of place humans. They just moved there. They go on crazy adventures but they never seem to notice because they are busy talking to eachother. Together they make up...
nockFORCE is a two-man collaboration launched with four hilarious songs on a MySpace page in early 2007. Afterwards the “Quickies” became a weekly project. Four more songs were released in fall 2007. effnocka and FUCKFORCE are the rap personae of animator Ian Jones-Quartey and audio specialist Jim Gisriel.
Jim Gisriel is nockFORCE’s musical mastermind and idea-man. He was born and raised in Baltimore and Towson, Maryland. He went to film school at the School of Visual Arts in 2002. In 2003 Jim created and launched the internet flash cartoon "Cletus the Fetus," a short cartoon about a talking fetus who escaped from an abortion clinic to hang out with his friend, Earl. The series ran until 2006 and had a total of 88 episodes. While working on the series, Jim met Ian Jones-Quartey, who did a voice on the show and was it's webmaster for a while. Years later they came up with the idea of nockFORCE and amazingness was born.
Jim currently works as an audio-visual specialist and writes a blog called "things i come up with" where he writes reviews of movies he saw the previous day and other things.
If nockFORCE were a sandwich FUCKFORCE would be the peanut butter.
Ian Jones-Quartey created every single piece of nockFORCE’s artwork and animation(He draws everything himself because he’s sort of insane). He grew up in Columbia, Maryland. While in Maryland he got his creative start in the world of comics with his webcomic RPG World. In 2002 Ian went to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts and major in animation. While there he made many films. His thesis film, “Unfair” received acclaim from student film festivals. In 2003 Ian became the voice of Melvin for the Flash series "Cletus the Fetus." This is where he met Jim Gisriel and then years later they made this awesome project called nockFORCE.
Ian currently works as an Animation Director for World Leaders Entertainment on Seasons 3 and 4 of "The Venture Bros."
If nockFORCE were a sandwich effnocka would be the jelly.
All Songs written & produced by nockFORCE(ian jones-quartey and jim gisriel)
(Except for the following)
"Mazinga 7" Produced by Joe Boi
"Mazinga 7" Outro backing Vocals Marcus Kaser
"I Just Drive" Chrous and backing vocals Michela Kaser
"I Don't Know" Produced by nockFORCE and JeffreyATW
"I Don't Know" Written and rapped by T Time and nockFORCE
"I Don't Know" Chrous by Smitty
Samples not used with permission.
Photography by Natasha Kaser
all art, animation and designs by ian jones-quartey
site design by jeffrey faden and ian jones-quartey