smackman crackman crackman crackman crackman crackman

the most famous iteration of this theme - or iterations plural

the version I remember best - "crackman on the line freaking out - don't do that - crackman on the line freaking out - dangerous!"

more Smack-ing tunes

more Crack-ing tunes 

Story behind "Autobiography" / "Green Man" via Class of 88 website

SMILEY: The Shacklewell Arms used to be called The Green Man. And basically The Green Man pub was where all the local guys used to go and buy their crack cocaine. That’s where it was sold, in that pub, so you know that pub is responsible for smashing so many lives. I mean, tearing families apart.

Seriously, that was like the devil was there. And I mean, we’ve seen from ages of, like, fourteen year olds to fifty year olds coming out of that pub, and they’ll be stealing from mums and brothers and dads, and robbing old ladies. Doing aggravated burglaries so they could get money to go into that bloody pub, The Green Man.

I mean, that’s a significant piece of history that place is, but a lot of people don’t know this.

But we was here from the beginning. So, we made a song called The Green Man. It was about people going in there buying crack.

And also on the flipside of Green Man, where it was more PJ’s idea, we had a song called Autobiography Of A Crackhead, and that was sort of like one of our deepest songs we’ve ever done really.

PJ: Basically it was a rap tune, and it was us both doing a verse each about living the life of a crackhead.

SMILEY: It’s not, like, bigging up crack…

Another Crack-in tune, suggested by YT in comments

2-Tone / Rough Tone

been thinking about connections between 2-Tone and rave / nuum

there are samples

                                            

Those from The Specials ("Friday Night, Saturday Morning" and "Monkey Man" respectively)

Another Specials sampling tune - this time "Gangsters" - by MC Duke under an alias.

I'm sure there's one on Formation that samples the "heavy heavy monster sound" bit from Madness's "One Step Beyond"

Ah it came to me belatedly - Mastersafe, "Monster Sound"

                                        

The Madness tune is itself based on sampling - or rather it interpolates from Dave and Ansell Collins's "Monkey Spanner"

Nuumtastic. 

And then wheeling a lot further along the timeline - didn't Kode9 do a version of "Ghost Town"?

Yes indeed - him and Spaceape (RIP)

I'm sure there are others...

But this here is an unusually direct connection, if we count UB40 as on the edge of the ska / 2-Tone moment, which I think they were:

Rough Tone Recordings - UK Hardcore/Jungle/Drum & Bass Label set up in 1992 as a side project by UB40 member Earl Falconer together with Reggae trumpet player Patrick Tenyue and sound technician Gerry Parchment. They also formed the main act E.Q.P. and promoted the Earthquake raves in Birmingham.

Sublabels

EQP Music, Rough Tone Records

and 

And lo and behold a sample from the Specials - "Why" - the same EP that produced the "No Sleep Raver" / 4 Hero sample,  "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" being the other of the two B-sides to "Ghost Town". On TNT's "Till the Last Sucker Drops" on the EQP label. 

EQP's real claim to fame, this demented tune

More tuff tuneage from Rough Tone Recordings 

decent tuneage 

crackman on the line freaking out DON'T DO THAT

DANGEROUS