Trenton, New Jersey delivered a batch of good hip-hop artists during the 90s... Poor Righteous Teachers, YZ, Blvd Mosse, Blaque Spurm, Dungeon Lordz or the late Tony D (RIP) who has established himself as one of the most creative and successful producers in rap coming from this area.
In 1993, Tony D recorded a few tracks with a duo called Black Prince & Aziatic from Roger Gardens housing projects, Trenton, NJ.
About Black Prince & Aziatic, they met in Kindergarten and have been best friends/brothers since. Black Prince was always a rapper growing up and Aziatic's mother bought him some turntables for six grade graduation, from there they studied the art of hip-hop everyday. They did graffiti, they jumped on trains and snucked to NY, 12-13 years old they submerged themselves in culture.
The connection with Tony D came from Black Prince being around at a young age... he was about 12-13 first time he recorded with Tony D, but unfortunately he was too young to drop a first official release. That's the main reason why all those unreleased tracks never came out at the time.
In 2016, their unreleased tracks fully produced by Tony D were dropped on vinyl on Cha-Ching Records with the help of Calvin "Trouble" Jones and his Redline Music Distribution, Inc. The EP contains 6 tracks and features the group S.B.T. on the last one. This group was comprised of Freedom, D Sabree & Ciph, who were friends from school. This EP is really good, so I invite you to grab one asap if you had missed it when it came out !
EP - 2016 - Cha-Ching Records
bought this for the Lifestyles of a rudeboy track. so dope. heres the sample https://youtu.be/gqM6DtajqTc?si=ToNYcAXmNT39g9Zs
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