Hooligan 69

It was recorded for the Ragga Twins’ debut album Reggae Owes Me Money in the Shut Up & Dance era, with Shut Up & Dance handling conception, production, arrangements, and executive production and James SK Wān credited as engineer. The album was cut at Von’s Studio in North London. The track was part of the Ragga Twins’ early-1990s run of Shut Up & Dance releases that helped define a harder London ragga-breakbeat sound. It reached No. 56 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1991, giving the duo one of their best-known chart entries. It remains one of the Ragga Twins’ signature early tracks and is regularly cited among the records that established their importance to UK rave and jungle’s development. Its profile is reinforced by later reissues, discussion of its Prince sample, and continued appearance in retrospective coverage of the duo.