James Victor Heinz (born February 6, 1983 in Long Island, United States), professionally known by his stage name J57, is an American rapper and record producer.
 He began his music career doing underground freestyle battles in 1997 before he produced and record his first recordings with his crew in 2003.
 In 2012, he released two solo EPs titled "2057" and "The Ports EP" which did well to gain him grounds and further led him to being ranked #20 in "AllHipHop"' s list of "Top 50 in Underground Hip-Hop".
 He is a member of the Brown Bag AllStars, a group of emcees he joined while working at Fat Beats in 2004, as well as Jamo Gang, a hip-hop group which consists of Ras Kass and El Gant.
 J57 is also part of DJ Eclipse's SIRIUS/XM Radio Show "Rap is Outta Control".
O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor.
 He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the seminal rap group N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitudes).
 After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he began both a successful solo music career and an acting career which included roles in films such as "Boyz n the Hood" (1991), "Friday" (1995), for which he also co-wrote the screenplay, and "Barbershop" (2002).
 Additionally, he has served as one of the producers of the Showtime television series "Barbershop" and the TBS series "Are We There Yet?
", both of which are based upon films in which he portrayed the main character.
The Jungle Brothers are an American hip hop group, and founding members of the Native Tongues collective.
 The Jungle Brothers pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house-music producer.
 The group began performing in the mid-1980s and released its first album, "Straight Out the Jungle", in July 1988.
 With Afrocentric lyrics and innovative beats, the Jungle Brothers were critically acclaimed and soon joined the influential Native Tongues collective.
 The original trio comprised Michael Small (Mike Gee), Nathaniel Hall (Afrika Baby Bam, a homage to Afrika Bambaataa) and Sammy Burwell (DJ Sammy B).
 Sammy B left the group after the release of "Raw Deluxe" in May 1997.
Melissha Martinez (born 1978), better known by her stage name Maya Jupiter, is a Mexican Australian rapper, songwriter, MC and radio personality.
 She released her debut album, "Today", in 2003.
 She was a member of hip-hop group, Foreign Heights, with MC Trey and DJ Nick Toth, which released a self-titled album in 2007.
 At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007 the trio was nominated for 'Best Urban Release' for "Get Yours (Remix)".
 From 2004 to 2008, Jupiter hosted the national radio station, Triple J's weekly "Hip-Hop Show".
 Thereafter she pursued her solo career based in Los Angeles and released her second album, "Maya Jupiter", in December 2010.
"Step" is a song by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend.
 Written and composed by band members Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij and produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and Batmanglij, the song was released as the fourth and final single from the band's third studio album "Modern Vampires of the City".
 The song was inspired by American hip-hop group Souls of Mischief's song "Step to My Girl".
Hard-Off is the fifth and final studio album by American alternative rock band Bloodhound Gang, released on December 18, 2015.
 It marks the band's first full-length studio release since 2005's "Hefty Fine".
 It is also the group's only full-length studio album with ex-A members Daniel P. Carter and Adam Perry, although Carter and Perry had performed on miscellaneous non-album tracks.
 Between August 8, 2014 and September 3, 2015, five singles were released to promote the album: "Chew Toy", "American Bitches", "Dimes", "Clean Up in Aisle Sexy", and "Uncool as Me".
T-Raperzy znad Wisły ("T-Rappers From Vistula") is a Polish hip-hop group founded in 1995 by Grzegorz Wasowski, Sławomir Szczęśniak, Lucyna Malec and Andrzej Butruk.
 In the years 1995-2000 the band was an inseparable part of a TV show called "Komiczny Odcinek Cykliczny".
 The songs are satirical in character and can be classified as comedy hip-hop.
 Early in the band's career, however, they created not only rap pieces, but also disco.
 The group has issued 6 albums to date.
Rezawrecktion were a Native American Music Award-winning hip-hop group.
 Formed by four members of the Apsáalooke, the band self-released an album in 2005, "It's Time", and were nominated for that year's Gospel/Christian Recording Native American Music Award.
 They won the award and immediately began touring, while working on a second album.
 The group then became defunct, with Supaman beginning a solo career.
The Bloodhound Gang was an American rock band which began as a hip hop group but branched out into other genres, including punk rock, alternative hip hop, rapcore, funk metal and electronic rock, as their career progressed.
 Their songs usually had humorous and off-beat, satirical lyrics that often dealt with sexual subjects and contained many puns and innuendos.
 They were influenced by The Beastie Boys.
Holy Intellect is the debut album by hip-hop group Poor Righteous Teachers, famous for its pro-Five-Percenter messages.
 The album includes the hip-hop classic "Rock Dis Funky Joint", which sampled "Slippin' Into Darkness" by War, a 1970s funk band.

Question: Hard-Off is an album by which rock band that began its career as a hip-hop group?
Answer: Bloodhound Gang