Tony Touch

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What DJ released Master of Rhyme album with Kool Chip? A, DJ Chuck Chill Out, B, DJ Boosie B, C, DJ Scratch, or D, DJ Tony Touch.

[upbeat music] For the win.

Let me see.

And so we linked, man, and we formed this group called IND at the time, and, um, we was doing our thing, man.

We was on, uh, Tony Touch 50 MCs, we was doing all kind of shows, running around, you know, and like I told you, Destruk had, a, a, a lot of connections to the industry.

Yeah.

So we was mingling with anybody and, and everything, and it was looking real promising for a young, uh, a young icon, you know what I mean?

I can't really think of the.

But my first cassette was a DJ Tony Touch cassette.

Respectfully.

I like that.

That I

must say.

It was a Tony Touch cassette.

And I bought it at Music Hut.

Pero no me importa, vamos a estar bien.

Yo voy Tony Touch, ¿qué es eso? Apaga la luz.

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Apaga la luz.

[funky music] They don't know.

Most people, Tony Touch, know me as, uh, DJ Tony Touch from Brooklyn.

Nice.

Born and raised.

So I'm definitely on Twitch active.

Nice.

DJ Tony Touch on Twitch.

Yeah, I'm still, like, one of the, the last of the Pro Ricans still-

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Camilo was there, Tony Touch was there.

It was, like, one of them Puerto Rican weekends, right?

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Tony is an unprecedented pioneer for the Boricua community in hip-hop.

That's Tony Touch.

That's Tony Touch.

As a DJ, as a producer, as a label person, as a member of Rocksteady Crew, moving here when he did and becoming who he is, it's a commercial phenomenon.

D-Nice, the TR-808, the nigga that produced Self-Destruction.

I know Tweed is a big fan of that tune.

Tony Touch out of New York City.

Apagalalu.

That's the Pablo Fierro raw mix.

And that was taken up in Northumberland a couple of weeks ago when we were over for a wedding.

in the country real soon.

Yes, Tony Touch there and Paga Lalu.

Hey, this is Donald Sheffy from New York City, and you are listening to the deep and soulful sounds of the New Jersey Connection on Starpoint Radio.

Shout out to Snagglepuss and all those cats, 'cause they were rapping on the mixtape.

But, and the Tony Touch mixtapes, you know, the, the, the Power Cypher, the 50 MCs, the 100 MCs.

Mm-hmm.

So, and s- so I was able to get my hands on some really early New York mixtapes called like, what was it called, man? Was it called, was it called Rap Attack? It was, I don't know if it was Rap Attack.

And like, so there's that.

There's the Doo-wop shit.

Then there's the, the, the Tony Touch shit, and then like later on, and that was, like, in the early '90s for me.

So, and then later on in the 2000s we got, you know, the 50 Cent, the mixtapes that 50 Cent made popular where it's like, like an MC rapping over all instrumentals, you know, doing his own version of the instrumentals and doing freestyles and, and verses over the popular instrumentals.

Um, uh, we had Natural Elements.

We had, uh, Gemini the Gifted One, Tony, Tony Touch.

Tony Touch wasn't on, on Tommy Boy Black Label.

He was on Tommy Boy, but I signed Tony Touch, you know, to-

Okay

... to his, uh, his deal at Tommy Boy where we put out the Peacemaker album, the first Peacemaker album.