Street Tuff

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"Street Tuff"
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Template:Infobox song/link by Rebel MC & Double Trouble
from the album Rebel Music
Released1989
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LabelDesire
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  • Leigh Guest
  • Michael Menson
  • Michael West
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  • Double Trouble
  • Rebel MC
Rebel MC singles chronology
"Just Keep Rockin'"
(1989) 		"Street Tuff"
(1989) 		"Better World"
(1990)
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"Street Tuff" is a song by British producer and toaster Rebel MC and Double Trouble featuring vocals by Janet Rose. It is written by Leigh Guest, Michael Menson and Michael West. Released in 1989 by the Desire label as their second single from the debut album, Rebel Music (1990), it became a commercial success and the biggest hit of both performers' careers, peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart.[1] It is the follow-up to their first hit, "Just Keep Rockin'", which made it into the UK top 20.[1] Additionally, "Street Tuff" became a top-10 hit in Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Critical reception

David Taylor-Wilson from Bay Area Reporter named the song "one of the most infectious grooves we've heard all year", noting that it "mixes the rhythms of Jamaican reggae with a house music beat. Just try and sit still when this one’s playing."[2] Bill Coleman from Billboard magazine wrote that "clever rhyming powered by insinuating club beats" could generate multiformat play to follow the UK act's previous smash, "Just Keep Rockin'".[3] David Giles from Music Week complimented it as a "splendid duet between hot young rapper Rebel MC and former Simply Red backing vocalist Janet Rose, conducted to an instrumental track that sounds very much like a dancehall reggae groove speeded up to 45 rpm! Brilliant and irresistibly danceable."[4] A reviewer from The Network Forty felt that featuring the "sultry Annie Lennox style vocals" of the singer, "this rap-dance record covers both musical realms with equal zeal."[5]

Siân Pattenden from Smash Hits said, "Quite a funky little number this, though very much in the same vein as their last single. There are lots of "yeahs", a boogalong beat and a host of currazy rhythms to keep you dancing. The words are very hard and tough, because the Rebel Mc is "street tuff" and he stings "like a bee" and that sorts of thing."[6] Frank Owen from Spin found that the song is "a single masquerading as an album", "both marketing gimmick and a testament to the way the British mix and match different musical genres, unlike in the US, where the demarcation lines between house, hip hop and reggae still remain fiercely patrolled aesthetic boundaries."[7]

Charts

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References

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  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference uk was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Taylor-Wilson, David (9 August 1990). "The Heat of the Beat". Bay Area Reporter. p. 36. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Coleman, Bill (24 February 1990). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. p. 79. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Giles, David (30 September 1989). "Singles" (PDF). Music Week. p. 25. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Top 40: The Next 40" (PDF). The Network Forty. 11 May 1990. p. 44. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pattenden, Siân (4 October 1989). "Singles". Smash Hits. p. 73. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Owen, Frank (May 1990). "Singles". Spin. p. 84. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 230.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 6, no. 45. 11 November 1989. p. IV. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Top 3 Greece" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 17, no. 10. 10 March 1990. p. VII. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Classifiche". Musica e dischi (in italiano). Retrieved 4 June 2022. Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Rebel MC & Double Trouble".
  12. ^ Radio Luxembourg Singles. 9 October 1989.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jaaroverzichten 1989" (in Nederlands). Ultratop. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Top 100–Jaaroverzicht van 1989". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jaaroverzichten – Single 1989" (in Nederlands). MegaCharts. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Year-End Charts '89 – Top 100 Singles". Music Week. London, England. 3 March 1990. p. 16.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Top 100 Singles–Jahrescharts 1990" (in Deutsch). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 9 February 2021.

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