(From The Piece Maker compilation; 2000)
Tony Touch & Doo Wop were tighter than Carlito & Lalin, nah mean? Here at The Martorialist we've got a lotta lotta love for the second single from Tony's first compilation. On The Return Of The Diaz Brothers Tony & Wop were like a rapping DJ version of The Beatnuts who let Pain In Da Ass deliver his greatest Tony Montana ad libbing on a song. Tommy Boy Records clearly gave Tony a budget with oodles of 0's to be able to sample Salsation and to shoot a fancy video in Miami featuring Angel "Chi Chi from Scarface" Salazar. Plus, it was a return of The Diaz Brothers foreal foreal because they were the second Hip-Hop duo to adopt the moniker of those infamous characters from Scarface folklore.
Bonus boricua beats: just like Carlito's barrio, the video for Homeboy Sandman's Enough ya no existe since he threw a hissy fit and deleted his YouTube account last year. Fortunately it reappeared on his VEVO page a few days ago and I do mean fortunately because it's such a funny little no-budget video with Sandman, J-Live & Kurious all unintentionally dressed like uncles as they rhyme each other's verses. In theory, a song built on a drumless acoustic folk guitar sample should be earbola to me; in reality, it was the first Homeboy Sandman song to catch my ear back in 2014 - some EZ-Elpee Listening type shit.
(From Hallways album; 2014)
Sandman took Kurious' "worse than drugs, yeah, stress is a disease" line to heart and turned it into an album.
Some good songs on that Tony Touch album, especially the Prodigy and Wu ones.
ReplyDeleteAgallah's Interlude is my shit. Heltah Skeltah song has become a favourite too.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a classic song from a classic album also G’z Up is another good one by them it’s that Last of Proricans mixtape from 2002.
ReplyDeleteYeah I got the 12" of that.
ReplyDeleteDoo Wop's The State Vs Doo Wop compilation from the early noughties had a few joints on it:
AZ's Gangsta Shit
P-Lon Dons with Big Pun.
Castle To Castle with Raekwon.
Agree with LA, The Abuduction and Basics were my fave cuts. Always loved how the Sing Sing drums worked incredibly well on that Sister Sledge cover song.
ReplyDeleteRemember the video mix of the Sister Sledge single with the It's Just Begun Rock Steady Crew dance breakdown? Even my Real Hip-Hop m8s couldn't front on that.
ReplyDeleteMTV Base used to hammer the 2 Tony Touch singles alongside proper big hitter N.Y choonz like Whoa and Simon Says. Very fond memories of that era.