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God creates man. Man creates the mic. God creates T.O.N.E-Z. T.O.N.E-Z destroys the mic. Within a world gone mad with “Whack Rappers Disease” across lands far and wide comes a man with “The Cure”, T.O.N.E-Z. Hailing from Boogie-down Bronx, NY pushing his numbers(2,147 to be exact, act like you know!) through the roof with his latest release, The Cure, which dropped June 15, T.O.N.E-Z is infecting the minds and opening the eyes of those who crave more than the mainstream has to offer. Within a system that’s so menapausle, leaking out the worst of garbage and songs people can’t relate comes an album that can be bumped to get through another day. Most if not all of the artists climbing the pop charts just can’t fuck with T, with a mjaority of this being spit with a style so free. No pen, no paper, off the top of the head, just like Lil’ Wayne, but with talent instead. This dude is one of the hardest moving and hardest working, constantly dropping a new song or album for the soliers to get ahold of.

Ok, now here’s the scenario in this land where the sky is overcast and bleek, slowly walking down the road you see a lone shillouette, standing on a soapbox. The mass infection resulting from the chemical threats, both phases, has left the music industry’s world upside-down and topsy-turvy. As a survivor your looking for something, anything to help you get through the pain… this is where you find him, the one lurking through the haze with an M:I soldiers traditional gasmask and backpack(T.O.N.E-Z) handing something out to the people, but what is it? You begin slowly, then your pace grows faster and faster until you find the two of you face to face. Your hand is extended and you make the exchange. The next thing you know you’re in your room in front of your stereo, popping in what it is that you just recieved, The Cure.

This album is a banger. Straight up and down all day and night. T.O.N.E-Z spans over many subjects, how the underground is where it’s at. The best of the best ready to spit at a moments notice. ‘Vanilla Sky’, an awakening, a moment of clarity, a catastrophe it casually takes everything you think you know about rhyming and tosses it out the window. Featuring a guest spot from the ghostly one himself, Lo-Key, the duo known for going with Death Before Dishonor bring the cocktails and burn your house down off the bat with this molotav of a track. The depth of the tracks on this shit are so easily relateable becuase it’s real life of what’s going on in the underground now-a-days. A simple and blunt concept by telling you how it is with no fabrications. A couple of the tracks that definately demonstrate this attitude; ‘Judge and Jury’, ‘F.T.I. 2008 mix’, and ‘The Cure’. Holding on to the essence of hip-hop, missing the bastards and the pigeons in the game dropping shitty tracks for the masses to, unwillingly, hear you scream “Fuck the Industry!” knowning the lime-light is now being stolen and fixated on the underground. On ‘P.O.P.’, produced by Mr. Kooman, the subject is changed to be on the lookout for them snakey, sneaky, double-crossing bianacas known as bitches. You’re shown how not to let a woman get ahold of you because then she’ll just be another person controlling you. What kind of underground artist who’s performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos hasn’t rapped with a wicked-shit twist in their sound some-how? Not many, and there is no exception here. T.O.N.E-Z is no stranger to the darkside of the inner confines of the human mind and you can feel it on like an underlying shiver up your spine as the disc spins.

For an artist who puts his own albums out with no backing by a major label in underground or mainstream T.O.N.E-Z always comes correct with the quality of his production of his releases. My favorite track of the album is probably the first, ‘Vanilia Sky’. The beat on it, put together by Inzane, is luring and once it gets its nails dug into you there’s no escape from its clutches. Then with Stir Crazy who produced ‘Who’s The King(otug)’, adding ‘Darkness Falls’, ‘Do You Remember’, and ‘I am who I am’ T can show you exactly who he is and connect on a more personal level with his audience. With the tracks that i feel have the biggest influence on the whole “Dark/Fuck you” attitude being thrown into the mix by Sirvo ‘F.T.I. 2008’, PMC ‘Addicted to Death’, and also Struggle ‘The Cure’ & ‘Judge and Jury’ this album is just one that isn’t one to be slept on, that’s for sure. If you don’t know who T.O.N.E-Z is, he’s the guy who is indepently getting paid off his own shit. Moving his own units and forging a solid fanbase the trail-blazed fire that’s been started, “The Cure”, will surely burn up through the underground.

Websites

TonezWorld.com
MySpace.com/TonezWorld

Release Date:

• 06/15/2008

Reviewer:

• Whipstick