Tony Touch - Best of 2010 Live from Shade 45

There are many you can front on in the world of those that call themselves DJs, but Tony Touch is not one of them. Son has been down for the longest, representing for Uptown and Rock Steady all the while. Whether you know him from his mixtapes, live DJing, or maybe the Piece Maker records, it should be indisputable that Toca is the real deal.

Eminem has certainly noticed. Tony has backed him up on the live tip and was the first DJ to sign to the Shade 45 radio franchise. Discriminating Tocaphiles know that Toca Tuesdays on Shade 45 are known for the guest freestyles. One of the highlights of the years end is always Tony's Year End Best Of Freestyle tapes and 2010 is no exception. Of course, front loading the tape with Rah Digga and Joell Ortiz is always a good recipe for JS-NYC props but know that this is the rare tape where most MCs here are worthy of the title. Get the Top 25 Toca Tuesday Freestyles of 2010 here from the Toca web presence and check out Toca Tuesdays from 8-12 every week at Shade 45.

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Tony Touch - Best of '09 Live from Shade 45

Mr. 50 MCs himself has got a new comp out that has 27 of the best freestyles from Toca's Shade 45 Radio show. Listening to it, you might actually think there is a future for hip hop. Toca drops old school freestyles along most of the artists, and for the record we are talking off-the-head freestyles, not their best writtens. He's hardly Big Daddy Kane, but he's a fair shade better than 95% of the crap that passes for today's hip-hop.

Of the 27, you'll be shocked to find that JS-NYC is coming out in favor of the Sean Price track. In other not so shocking nods, know that Joell Ortiz continues to decimate every other MC in the game. His track is fucking bananas and sadly for shitty rappers he twists the knife and appears a second time as part of Slaughterhouse. Don't think this a young man's game either, as old school players like AG and Steele also represent. Listen to this and ask yourself why these freestyles are better than anything that topped the hip-hop charts last year.

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