Chris Strong and the artist also known
as “Tonez – the Wicked Bally,” has released his new single “80
Proof” on Holland Jungle Music.
Chris Strong, in collaboration with
Tonez, “the Wicked Bally,” has released his new single “80
Proof” on Holland Jungle Music. The track is characterized by a
laid-back melody line and an up-front beat that neither steals the
limelight from Bone Tone nor fails to garner attention. Tonez’s
lyrics are well-written and performed effortlessly by the man
sometimes called the Wicked Bally. At two and a half minutes long,
“80 Proof” is not a track that will be used as the background
music for a feature-length film, but it may very well inspire many
music fans to question why Tonez hasn’t made hours and hours of
quality music like this already, when he seems clearly capable of
achieving the big time.
Tonez’s style is at once reminiscent
of the great rappers from the 1990s and very contemporary,
cutting-edge, almost prophetic. As R&B learns from its nearly
infinite autotune mistakes between the years 2000 and 2008, chances
are we can expect much more urban music to come out like Tonez:
well-sung and well-phrased, with Strong’s funky, clean beats that
could be played live on a drum kit just as easily as they could be
reproduced on old 808s or 909s. That Strong and Tonez cleave closely
to the oldschool ways of making rap music is not as counter-intuitive
as it might seem: he sites as artistic references FloRida, Wiz
Khalifa, and Gym Class Heroes, all of whom took their own cues from
the masters. Christ Strong’s work is rap music that the music
scene has needed for a long time. Tonez is very easily as talented
as anyone coming out of the radio today.
This is the first professionally
published track by Strong and Tonez on Holland Jungle Music
(typographically represented as hOLLAND jUNGLE in fanzines and
online) but to hear these men go, it definitely sounds as if it will
not be the last. With this first single complete and ready for
purchase and download on iTunes globally, it’s almost certain that
we’ll see Bone Tone publishing an extended play record online any
day now, or perhaps beginning his American tour.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The
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and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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