"One Way Love": The Rise of Latin Freestyle: How TKA Ruled the Clubs but Missed the Charts

The Twelve Inch 156 : One Way Love (TKA)

The early 1980s in New York City was a battleground of sound. Disco, though fading from the mainstream, was feeding into what came next. Hip-hop was breaking onto the streets, with rap and the electro beat as its major tools. But hip-hop wasn’t the only genre to emerge from this melting pot of influences—Latin Freestyle was also born in this era of tran…