Camp Lo

The Bronx-based rap pair Camp Lo fuses hip-hop with jazz influences and funk grooves. Sonny Cheeba and Geechi Suede followed their early 1996 hit single “Coolie High,” featured on the soundtrack for The Great White Hype, by issuing their debut full-length Uptown Saturday Night in February 1997. That project climbed to the Top 30 on the Billboard 200 and reached the Top Five on the R&B/hip-hop chart. Arista Records reissued the album two years afterward, while the EP Short Eyes surfaced in 2001 and the follow-up LP Let’s Do It Again appeared the next year. Returning behind the boards, Ski Beatz, also known as David Willis and a prior collaborator, handled production duties for Black Hollywood, which arrived in 2007. Camp Lo then delivered a pair of Soul Fever releases in 2009, placing Stone and Rob Caught on Tape in February and Another Heist that autumn. Partnering with Pete Rock, the duo dropped the mixtapes 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 in 2011, and their sixth studio album, Ragtime Hightimes, came out through Nature Sounds in 2015. Early in 2017, Camp Lo and Ski Beatz assembled previously unheard mid-’90s demos and unreleased tracks for the Persia Records collection On the Way Uptown.