Worst. Rap Picture Sleeve. Ever.

This review is not my personal review though it has been taken from the release The “U Can’t Touch This” KMEL Mix WAS NOT REMIXED BY KID SEVEN NOR WAS IT REMIXED FOR KMEL SAN FRANCISCO! Kid Seven is not a person – he is a record label typing error. The original mix was done by John Gray and Tiger Jones for 92.9 KKBQ (93Q) Houston. Back in the 80’s and 90’s it was common for Top 40 radio stations to re-work popular songs to stay one step ahead of rival stations in order to secure a faithful audience. 93Q was no exception. In 1990 John, an on-air DJ who went by the name Kidd Cannon, was asked to create a special 93Q version of the station’s most popular song. Tiger, a Houston club DJ, was a friend of John’s and late one night the pair headed off to the station’s production room with cds, a sampler and a 12 pack of beer in hand. A few hours (and empty bottles) later, the track was completed. The feedback was incredible. John made several duplicate copies and sent them to radio stations across America – including KMEL San Francisco. KMEL contacted John and told him that the 93Q version had made the MC Hammer tune the most requested song in that station’s history – at the time, of course. How John & Tiger’s version made it all the way to the UK via KMEL is not known. In fact, the version that was pressed was a copy of a copy of an original tape! Capitol Records in the US declined to release the mix only because of a version that Cameron Paul was commissioned to release – it was never pressed. John’s radio name Kidd Cannon must have been lost in translation somewhere along the way and became Kid Seven. Tiger’s name was never mentioned. Neither one was given notice of the song’s release, never asked to supply a good clean copy of the master tape for pressing purposes nor were they paid one single penny for their work.