Songoftheday 6/30/18 - V-Town brother check it out I'm bout to throw it down, dick in hand you shoulda had your toke down...
from the album Back To The Hotel (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 22
Today's song of the day comes from the hip-hop duo N2Deep, who got together in the early 1990s in the northern outskirts of the San Francisco/Oakland area. Rappers Timothy "TL" Lyon and James "Jay Tee" Trujillo signed on to Profile Records (Run DMC's original label) just as they were about to release their debut album. The first single, title track "Back To The Hotel", which prominently sampled the slinky saxophone hook from "Darkest Light" from the Lafayette Afro-Rock Band, was produced by partner John Zunino, and followed a story of the pair trying various ways to get chicks while cruising around the hood...
"Back To The Hotel" meandered in the pop top-40 for weeks before eventually reaching the top-20 in January of 1993. The single also made it to #33 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. A second single from the record, "Toss Up", peaked at #92 pop and #74 R&B. Profile was sold off before the duo finished their second album, 24-7-365, which ended up on MC Hammer's Bust It label. After a third album, Trujillo put out a couple of solo albums using the N2Deep moniker, but the pair reunited in 2008 for their most recent set, The Movement.
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Here's Trujillo talking about the making of the record...
Up tomorrow: Green Girl Group gets propositional.
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