“Off The Wall” feat. Jahdan and Professor X; “Memorial” feat. Eek-A-Mouse; (The Rude Awakening, 1998)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlI_WSm_EFI
A lawsuit from gunmakers Smith and Wesson forced Tek and Steele to re-dub themselves Cocoa Brovaz between the release of Dah Shinin’ and their sophomore LP, The Rude Awakening. To help explain their predicament, the duo enlisted Jahdan Blakkamoore (and Professor X of the X-Clan) to chant down Babylon on album opener “Off The Wall.” More memorably, they scored a multi-layered vocal performance from the colorful Eek-A-Mouse on “Memorial,” a haunting “fallen soldiers”-type track that featured Mouse’s high-pitched whine and Tek and Steele’s memorable hook: “Oh why oh why oh why, it’s always the good ones that have to die/Oh why oh why oh why, Bob Marley die, Jacob Miller die.”