The Treacherous Three (album)

The Treacherous Three
Studio album by Treacherous Three
Released	1984
Recorded	1980–1983
Genre	Old-school hip hop
Label	Sugar Hill
Producer	Sylvia Robinson
Treacherous Three chronology
Whip It (1983) The Treacherous Three (1984) Old School Flava (1994)
Singles from The Treacherous Three
"The Body Rock" Released: 1980[1] "At the Party" Released: 1980 "Feel the Heartbeat" Released: 1981 "Turning You On / U.F.O." Released: 1983 "Get Up" Released: 1983

The Treacherous Three is the first studio album by American hip hop group Treacherous Three. It was released in 1984 via Sugar Hill Records with distribution of MCA Records and produced by Sylvia Robinson. Complex (magazine) puts the album at number 39 on their 50 Greatest Rap Albums of the 1980s.[2]

The songs "At the Party", "Feel the Heartbeat" and "The Body Rock" were recorded and released from 1980 to 1981 as 12" singles for Bobby Robinson's Enjoy Records and were also compiled on Whip It (1983). The songs "Turning You On", "U.F.O." and "Get Up" were recorded and released in 1983 on Sylvia Robinson's Sugar Hill Records.

The group's sophomore album, Old School Flava, was released a decade later.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get Up"	6:05
2.	"Turning You On"	6:10
3.	"U.F.O."	6:50
4.	"The Body Rock"	7:27
5.	"Feel the Heartbeat"	5:22
6.	"At the Party"	7:22

Notes[3]

• "Feel the Heartbeat" sampled "Heartbeat" by Taana Gardner
• "At the Party" sampled "Daisy Lady" by 7th Wonder

Personnel

• Kevin Keaton – vocals
• Lamar A. Hill – vocals
• Mohandes Dewese – vocals
• Sylvia Robinson – producer
• Paul Austin – mastering
• Carl Rowatti – mastering
• Hemu Aggarwal – photography

Legacy

• "The Body Rock" was sampled on "Honey" by Mariah Carey (1997) and "Drop It on Me" by Ricky Martin (2005)
• "At the Party" was sampled on "Moe Love on the 1 and 2" by Ultramagnetic MCs (1992)
• "Feel the Heartbeat" was sampled by various recording artists and deejays, such as KRS-One ("Heartbeat", 1997), Troy Ave ("Good Time", 2014), and was later remixed by Clark Kent on the Treacherous Three track "Feel the New Heartbeat" from their 1994 album Old School Flava.

References

1. "Dig of the Day: Treacherous Three - Body Rock (1980)". 3 April 2018.
2. Shipley, Al. "The Best Rap Albums of the '80s37. Treacherous Three, Treacherous Three (1984)". Complex. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
3. "The Treacherous Three on WhoSampled". WhoSampled. Retrieved December 4, 2017.

External links

"Treacherous Three - The Treacherous Three". Discogs.