{"id":95926,"date":"2015-10-22T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=95926"},"modified":"2015-10-22T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T16:54:10","slug":"dig-of-the-day-tony-d-springfield-ave-reprieve-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-tony-d-springfield-ave-reprieve-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Tony D &#8211; Springfield Ave Reprieve (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uXPn8T5oc8o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, I went through more than 70 tracks today to find the &#8220;right one&#8221;&#8230; This is it.<\/p>\n<p>I could use all the words to describe this&#8230;this magic. New Jersey&#8217;s <strong>Tony-D<\/strong> was rap luminary whose career as a rapper was overshadowed by his skills and fame as a producer. Produced many obscure NJ records, before signing to <strong>4th &#038; Bway<\/strong> around 1990 for his own album, then forming <strong>Crusaders For Real Hip-Hop<\/strong> in 1991, and even later producing abstract hip hop tracks for the UK <strong>Grand Central<\/strong> label.<\/p>\n<p>Later in his career founded the <strong>Cha-Ching Records <\/strong> label, re-releasing Philly random rap compilations and several of his own productions, as well as a retrospective of his own work. His life, but not his legacy, ended in a car accident in Hamilton NJ, where he lived, at the age of 42 in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em>Springfield Ave Reprieve<\/em> is a part of <em>Trenton Connection EP<\/em>, released on <strong>Grand Central Records<\/strong> in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Tony-D<\/strong> (R.I.P.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tonyd.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"95927\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-tony-d-springfield-ave-reprieve-1996\/tonyd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tonyd.jpg?fit=425%2C351&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"425,351\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tonyd\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tonyd.jpg?fit=425%2C351&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tonyd.jpg?fit=425%2C351&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tonyd.jpg?resize=425%2C351&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"tonyd\" width=\"425\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95927\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, I went through more than 70 tracks today to find the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-oXc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}