For those not in the know, Tykoon Suit are a three piece Hip Hop outfit from Cape Town consisting of two rappers and one DJ.
The band members are Digger Barnes aka Neon Don (Denver Turner) and Bang Bang (Byron Abrahams) as the MC's and Benny Wong (Andre Swanepoel) Beatmaking and Djing. The music can best be described as escapist blue collar Hip Hop with Funk and Jazz influences, with a unique urban flavor.
The band got together 4 years ago, after the split of SA funk band Moodphase5ive, in which Andre Swanepoel was the manager and Denver Turner the MC. At the time Andre was releasing tracks as MR MO on African Dope records, Denver and he decided to collaborate, which eventually became the first Tykoon Suit single: Gigolo Lounge on Cape of Good Dope. Not long after Byron was introduced to Andre by Denver and Tykoon Suit were born.
Their debut album “Smart Casual” was released on the 7th of July in Cape Town back in 2007, and was reviewed as album of the month in both GQ and Blunt magazine South Africa respectively.
These days the crew aren't as active as they were once, but the Studio was blessed to have Andre and Denver come in one night to record the aptly named "Just For One Night". Straight up hip-hop infused funk with conscious, easy-flow rhymes makes it classic Cape Town downbeat hip-hop:
Tykoon Suit - Just For One Night by Red Bull Studio CT
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