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Street Tuff
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Street Tuff
| cover = Street_Tuff.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Rebel MC & Double Trouble
| album = Rebel Music
| released = 1989
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| length = 3:31
| label = Desire
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| chronology = Rebel MC
| prev_title = Just Keep Rockin'
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title = Better World
| next_year = 1990
| misc =
}}
"'Street Tuff'" is a 1989 song by British producer and toaster Rebel MC and Double Trouble. Released 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. It is the follow-up to their first hit, "Just Keep Rockin'", which made it into the UK Top 20. Additionally "Street Tuff" also peaked within the top 10 in Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. A music video was produced to promote the single.
Critical reception
David Taylor-Wilson from 'Bay Area Reporter' said the song is "one of the most infectious grooves we've heard all year." He noted that it "mixes the rhythms of Jamaican reggae with a house music beat. Just try and sit still when this ones playing." Bill Coleman from 'Billboard' wrote that "clever rhyming powered by insinuating club beats could generate multiformat play to follow the U.K. act's previous smash, "Just Keep Rockin'"." A reviewer from 'The Network Forty' noted that featuring the "sultry Annie Lennox style vocals of Janet Sewall, this rap-dance record covers both musical realms with equal zeal."
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References
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