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The Dream Warriors

Band Toronto Canada Active 1988–2002 Canadian hip hop

The Dream Warriors formed in 1988 in Toronto, Canada and was active until 2002. The Dream Warriors has 31 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2014. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Wash Your Face In My Sink”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #34. The station that charted The Dream Warriors most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 28 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1990.

31appearances
16countdowns
2songs charted
2stations
0#1 finishes
1990–2014years

Dream Warriors blew in from Toronto sounding like nobody else on the block: two quick-witted rappers, Louis "King Lou" Robinson and Frank "Capital Q" Allert, rhyming over bouncing jazz loops with a playfulness that made most hip-hop sound heavy-footed. Together since 1988, they became pioneers of jazz rap, and their pull was felt in the UK as strongly as at home in Canada.

And Now the Legacy Begins, their 1991 debut on 4th & B'way, is the one to own, a golden-era alternative hip-hop record that swings. "Wash Your Face in My Sink" is all wit and elbow room, and "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style" skips along like a cocktail-lounge record that wandered into a block party.

The duo grew into a crew for Subliminal Simulation in 1994, adding rapper Spek and DJ Luv, and put out The Master Plan in 1996 before the newcomers left a year later. Nothing afterward matched the debut commercially, but a greatest hits set in 1999 was warmly received, and The Legacy Continues... closed the story in 2002.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by The Dream Warriors on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 Wash Your Face In My Sink
1,258		 16 #34 – 1990
2 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style
1,225		 15 #52 – 1990

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2014 576 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014 600 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013 560 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013 578 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011 543 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2011 555 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010 526 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2010 540 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009 526 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009 529 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008 527 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2008 533 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007 547 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007 562 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005 55 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 180 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004 53 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 84 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003 52 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 84 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002 52 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 84 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001 52 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 84 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000 60 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000 79 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999 60 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 79 Wash Your Face In My Sink CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1991 788 Wash Your Face In My Sink CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition)
1990 34 Wash Your Face In My Sink CFNY Top 90 Songs of 1990
1990 62 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style CFNY Top 90 Songs of 1990

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