Songoftheday 5/12/20 - I flex my brasos hard core down for the clicka', who's that eminating funk through the speaka'...
from the album Delinquent Habits (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4
Today's song of the day comes from the Latin hip-hop group Delinquent Habits, who came together in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk in the early 1990. With two rappers, Ives Irie and Kemo the Blaxican, along with DJ O.G. Style, the trio was mentored by Cypress Hill member Sen Dog, who helped produce their self-titled debut album. Their first single was "Tres Delinquents", which prominently sampled the Latin-jazz classic "The Lonely Bull" from Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, which was a top ten hit in 1962. With a completely different sound that hadn't been on mainstream radio since the likes of N2Deep years ago, the single got popular real quickly, and its mainstream success even overshadowed urban stations' hesitance for those kind of rhythms...
"Tres Delinquentes" became Delinquent Habits' first and only pop hit, reaching the top-40 in June of 1996. The song also went to #61 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, and hit #10 on their Rap Singles list. Internationally, the single reached the top 40 in Finland (#16), Germany (#30), Sweden (#32), Switzerland (#34), and the Netherlands (#40). The second single from the album, "Lower Eastside", only managed to get to #36 on the Rap Singles list, while "bubbling under" the R&B chart at #109. The Tres Delinquentes album snuck into the R&B Albums Top-40 at #31, while topping out at #74 on the all-genre Billboard 200 sales list.
The trio returned in 1998 with their sophomore disc Here Come The Horns, but with both singles from the set, "Here Comes The Horns" and "Western Ways Part II" both "bubbling under" the R&B chart, the record was relatively unnoticed, and they were let go from RCA Records' Loud imprint. Since then they've been rather productive, releasing five more studio albums independently for their loyal fanbase. Their most recent effort, It Could Be Round Two, came out in 2017.
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Part of the track's mainstream popularity came from a rock remix that was done for the soundtrack to the Adam Sandler movie Bulletproof...
And finally, the group live in Germany in 2017...
Up tomorrow: Another decades-old classic gets new life, this time with a combustible hip-hop trio from New Jersey.
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