roots rap reggae

14 MP3 Songs
HIP HOP/RAP: Hip Hop, WORLD: Reggae



Details:
tony fresh was born and raised in south-east san diego, ca. , and has always had a love for music. in the earlier days he was a part of rap crews and break dance crews and gained a real reputation for battling other dance crews and winning many of them. his musical taste and influences were diversed as he grew up listening to all the r&b oldies, hip-hop, the motown sound, michael jackson, prince, etc... he also was heavily into jamaican and dance-hall style of music as evidenced on his break out debut fresh out , an album that tony fresh put out by himself on his record label nitti records. t-fresh and j-irie are childhood friends. they did private recordings together and spirit man is one of those recordings. the song is based on tony fresh's brother darius houghton a.k.a. saint dee, who was also in the group but passed away in 1995 and he is still flowing in the spirit. t-fresh produced the album entitled,spirit man,and it is a smashing album.