PURPLE TAPE PEDIGREE

Tilt The Bucket

By Geng-Grizzly, on May 15th, 2013

GrandeMarshall and A-Trak stop by Toca Tuesdays. Bars ahoy.

With No Spot

By Geng-Grizzly, on June 13th, 2012

Black Hippies on the radio. Yeah. Raps.

Cook Me A Life

By Geng-Grizzly, on April 18th, 2012

ScHoolBoy Q was on a heavy promo run a week ago. The following is his freestyle from Tony Touch‘s show. Bars.

Bonus: Video from his Funkmaster Flex appearance.

Weigh My Pain

By Geng-Grizzly, on March 30th, 2012

Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire blessed Tony Toca with some new raps. New BK external hard rock/internal pain raps.

At The End Of The Game, You A Bitch Like Metroid

By Geng-Grizzly, on June 11th, 2011

A Danny Brown triple dose. Why? Because the Hybrid is one of our absolute favorites…no fuckery. Seriously, dude is a rapper’s rapper without being too rappity…makes sense?

First up, visual. Danny over some bossa nova, as provided by DJ Tony Toca for Toca Tuesdays. Animated, Hybrid stylings.

Second. Some hard, dark, spaced, head trauma shit. ARGHGHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Danny Brown “Blunt After Blunt”

Finally, this has been sittin’ in my inbox for a week now…just that my last 7 days have been inundated with real life shit (no time for Internet shit…until this fine, rainy Saturday morning). This is a track by Danny! (with Danny Brown as the guest) that was originally slated for a 2009 release, but the project got shelved. Switch out the beat, throw on a 2011 release date, add water…and voila…you get this uptempo, funky shit (filled with lines that make post titles, as seen at the top of this one, as well as references to semi-unreleased Ghostface joints).

Danny! “Theme Music To A Killing Spree” (Feat. Danny Brown, Produced by Danny Swain)

Shout out to Fool’s Gold Records and Danny Brown for the alley-oop.

Real McCoy Leather

By Geng-Grizzly, on May 3rd, 2011

Supergroup Random Axe shows up to hurt a couple of instrumentals, as supplied by DJ Tony Touch. These cats have a sick chemistry. Very glad.

Sean P‘s face at the beginning of that second beat+his end of second verse antics = exactly.

Hit It With A Smidgeon Of The Bailey’s

By Geng-Grizzly, on April 7th, 2011

Outdoors Action shows the people listening to Tony Touch‘s Toca Tuesdays that he’s always got a mean couple-of-16′s up his sleeve. Toca throws on some of the most appropriate beats you could give a Queens native with a breathless flow.

As I saw this get thrown up on various in-the-know blogs before I was able to get to my own posting device, many of them mentioned the fact that Action slipped up a few times during the verses. Well we believe that, in this case, “it gives you a measure of appreciation for the effort being put in,” as Philaflava put it, rather than detract focus from the guy’s talent.

Leavin’ The Shell There

By Geng-Grizzly, on March 29th, 2011

Philly’s number one gunna Young C spits that hard Desi-bird shit over 9th Wonder’s soulful “Based God” concoction. Well…I won’t say which version/verses I prefer over the beat…but you (should) already know!

Young Chris “Base 2 Ya Face”

BONUS:
Chris goes in at Toca Tuesdays. The live radio sessions have never been a weak point for dude.

Toca’s Way Nights

By Geng-Grizzly, on February 16th, 2011

Toca Tuesdays gets a freestyle blessing from Ohio’s own Stalley. To the point. Get Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music).

Got Bars, Will Travel

By Geng-Grizzly, on December 7th, 2010

If this is what happens when you fuck up scheduling on Shade 45, I’m on the wrong side of the business. Tony Touch does what he does best and gets the cipher started with both Talib Kweli and Freeway on today’s Toca Tuesdays.

Let me add that when the word “freestyle” is used, 99% of the time it means that “you’re getting a verse for free”…and definitely should not be confused with something that is “unwritten” and “off the top of the domepiece”. But these guys…these guys…THESE guys actually went with the latter and threw bars straight off the top…mostly. Not always the path to hearing the tightest of rhyme knits, but when you hear some impeccably “how’d you come up with that just now” shit…it makes enduring some of the sporadic filler a little more worthwhile.
Whatever though, Free is a fuckin’ monster (even if he did seamlessly interweave a few written bars in…real rap).