| Lyrical King (From the Boogie Down Bronx) | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | T La Rock |
| Cover: | LyricalKing.jpg |
| Released: | 1987 |
| Recorded: | 1986–1987 |
| Genre: | Hip-hop |
| Length: | 42:26 |
| Label: | Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records (U.S.) LPRE-2 Ten/Virgin Records (UK) |
| Producer: | T La Rock Louie Lou Kurtis Mantronik |
| Next Title: | On a Warpath |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
Lyrical King (From the Boogie Down Bronx), from 1987, is the debut album of hip-hop emcee T La Rock. It was released after the EP He's Incredible, and none of the tracks from that record were on the original release of the album. Singles released were "Back to Burn," "Tudy Fruity Judy," "It's Time to Chill," and, in the UK, "Big Beat in London." Kurtis Mantronik produced several tracks, and Greg Nice of Nice & Smooth contributed human beat boxing. When the album was rereleased in digital form by Traffic Entertainment Group in 2006, two of the tracks from He's Incredible and two non-album tracks produced by Kurtis Mantronik were added. In addition, the Rick Rubin-produced classic "It's Yours," which was originally released on a different label, was also included because of its common ownership in the present day.
On the cover can be seen T La Rock wearing an Adidas Laser track top with the logo of the French Football Federation. Actually, T La Rock won this suit from a streetball game against Akhenaton, one of the emcees of the French hip hop group IAM, when the group came to New York City in 1986.[1]
Original 1987 album:
2006 additions:
Samples of "It's Yours" can be heard in the following songs and in countless others.