Tony D had his own label “Cha-Ching” records and I am positive that there will be a time when his unreleased material will be unearthed, remastered, and properly released by his family/close friends and music associates. At that time I hope ALL of his fans purchase a legitimate copy so his family can feel your support.

There are many local artists, fans, family members, and friends who wish to see Tony D’s legacy in hip-hop properly represented. I can tell you for a fact that Tony would want any deserved benefits reaped by the selling of his back catalogue and unreleased work to go directly to his wife and kids.

I would encourage anyone (like myself) who has a mountain of unreleased Tony D cds, mp3 files, ect to keep a lid on it until his family has the opportunity to release it properly in a venue where they will recieve all royalties from any renewed interest in his newer work.

In Hip-Hop too often we are fickle, even to our own heroes- we don’t show our support for an artist until he/she is gone. It is too late to let Tony know on a personal level what his life’s work meant to us, but we can all help ensure that his legacy in Hip-Hop music is celebrated, and acknowledged.

R.I.P. Tony D… he was the Sun that many a local artist revolved around and depended upon for light and nourishment- even those of us who do not admit it. We will never forget you.

Shawn

Last year I purchased a lot of his unreleased music from the man himself – 5-6 CDRs full of unreleased ish!
I paid him about 100 bucks for the whole thing and was pretty pissed when I got plain CDRs without any tracklists and artworks – I remember he promised to put together smth nicer before I sent the payment, ha-haa
He included the note where he promised to send tracklists later – but after numerous e-mails, he finally said that he doesn’t know the titles and doesn’t know exactly what he put there and that I should appreciate the songs and not the titles and artworks and I should make up the titles myself (ha-haa) – he also said that he’s a producer and not the graph artist and I could never imagine getting unreleased music from the likes of Premier and Pete Rock, but he was nice enough to send these to me – I thought he was a bit shady for burning these 6 CDRs for 100 bucks, but now I guess I must be pretty satisfied for getting those…
That included unreleased albums by Blaque Spurm, Baby Chill, Crusaders, Shawn Lov, Black Prince & Aziatic Roger and his own + the extra disc with unreleased/rare tracks he had done for various underground local artists. I have never even played those discs – as I said I was quite pissed at the time and put them aside… I didn’t feel like listening those without knowing the titles etc
Later I heard that he had a serious hard drive crash and lost everything…. He also said that he must convert everything from the DATs to the computer again and that would take forever – I’m pretty sure he probably didn’t manage to finalize this process…
I must say that his material that didn’t get to the masses may be even doper and his recent beats and style was still that same niceness – he didn’t try to sound mainstream and was showing the finger to the commercial rap (the way he spoke to that old interview) till the end!
R.I.P.

http://music-selections.com/2008/04/13/exclusive-interview-with-tony-d-the-master-of-the-moaning-beats/

http://coldrockdaspot.blogspot.com/2009/04/tony-drip.html