Secret Weapon

Led by bassist, songwriter, and vocalist Jerome Prister, Key Tool was a short-lived post-disco/funk work based in the brand new York Town borough of Brooklyn. Apparently inspired by huge co-ed funk rings such as for example Slave and Mass Creation, Secret Weapon had been authorized to the venerable Prelude label. They debuted in 1981 making use of their biggest strike, “Should be the Music,” which reached Billboard’s R&B graph the next January, peaked at quantity 24, and became a dancefloor traditional. Their lone, self-titled recording presented another charting solitary in “‘DJ’ Guy.” Prister, who also documented as Result and under his personal name for Tuff Town, passed away in 2007.