Akil of the acclaimed Jurassic 5 in the USA has visited Tiny Toones a number of times to hang with KK and share his skills with the music department here. The Tiny Toones rappers and DJ’s have work shopped and freestyled together and even done some live performances in clubs around Phnom Penh.
Akil also played a part in our now famous song ‘Tiny Toones Worldwide‘ and features in the film clip.
In 2010 AZI travelled from Philadelphia and spent some quality time with the guys in the music department at Tiny Toones. They rapped and freestyled with our guys, made two songs together and even a video clip. A song was written in collaboration between AZI, Tiny Toones and Klapyahandz and a video clip made together. The song was written about Cambodia and can be listened to and viewed here.
Tiny Toones also performed live in a club in Phnom Penh with AZI.
In 2011, Tiny Toones were blessed to not only workshop with, be choreographed by, but to dance on stage also with three French International dancers; Nabil Ouelhadj, ‘Mousstik’, and Cissel.
After two weeks of rehearsals, in collaboration with BDB dancers from Battambang, audiences at Chenla Theatre were wowed to two performances of ‘Roam ! Dansez !’, Episode 2: ‘Carnet de Voyage’ (‘Crazy Car’).
In 2012 Tiny Toones moved to its new, big Centre in Chba Ampov. Australian Morgan Lewis, aka ‘Morganics’ was to be the first lucky International visiting artist. He is an Australian hip hop artist, performer, director and community worker. Although our new dance floor was not finished and our music studio still just a bunch of guys, a little equipment and a whole lot of space … this didn’t stop Morganics from visiting every day he could and spending time between the DJ room, the music production room and the dance floor.
DJ DSK who now lives in China, has been visiting us in Cambodia since 2008. He always makes time to visit Tiny Toones where he workshops with all the music staff and students. He has taught many of them about dj’ing, scratching and mixing.
DJ DSK is a good friend to Tiny Toones and stays in touch, and visits whenever he can.