Tony "Pretty Tony" Butler was an influential 1980s electro and freestyle artist based out of Miami, Florida.

He recorded a string of popular club tracks on Jam Packed in the mid-'80s. Butler's tracks with his primary group Freestyle Express (now known as Freestyle Evolution) include such club staples as "It's Automatic", "Don't Stop the Rock" and "The Party Has Begun". Solo, he released "Jam the Box". His best-known tracks were produced for female vocalists Debbie Deb ("When I Hear Music" and "Lookout Weekend") and Trinere ("All Night", "I'll Be All You Ever Need", "I Know You Love Me"). Also the one-hit wonder group Fast Lane "Young Ladies" in 1984 and later "Young Ladies Remix".

According to his official MySpace site, Butler is currently completing the final preparations for the launch of a new record label, entitled COUNTDOWN Entertainment.

The song "Don't Stop the Rock" by Butler's Freestyle Express (released under the name Freestyle) is used as the basis for the 2009 Cadbury Eyebrows advertisement which is part of the new Cadbury plc television ad campaign.

Albums[link]

• Fix it in the Mix

External links[link]

• Official website^{[dead link]}
• Pretty Tony on Myspace
• Allmusic profile
• Pretty Tony discography at Discogs

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Aldrin Davis, better known as DJ Toomp, is an award-winning American record producer and DJ who works in Atlanta, Georgia. In the late 1980s he was MC Shy-D's DJ and went on tour with him and the 2 Live Crew as they performed at various venues across the country with other artists such as N.W.A. and Ice-T, after MC Shy-D left Luke Records he DJ'd for JT Money and the Poison Clan; When the 2 Live Crew broke up he worked on an album with former group member Brotha Marquis when he relocated to Atlanta called Indecent Exposure under the moniker 2 Nazty, the cover billed him as a member of the Poison Clan. He rose to mainstream fame by working with southern rapper T.I. on his first four albums, and received critical acclaim in 2006 for producing T.I.'s single "What You Know", which peaked at #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[1] and earned both Toomp and T.I. their first Grammy.^[2] More recently, he contributed to production on Kanye West's Graduation, including producing the singles "Can't Tell Me Nothing" and "Good Life" with West. He and hip hop veteran Bernard Parks, Jr. have launched their own record label called NZone Entertainment.^[3]

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External links[link]

• DJ Toomp Official Homepage
• DJ Toomp Bio and Discography 2009 Production advisor for Musicpowers.com
• DJ Toomp Production Credit List (Discography) - beatbuggy.com
• DJ Toomp on iStandard Panel - iStandardProducers.com