first reported by KQED<\/a>. Capone had most recently lived in Las Vegas. No cause of death was given. <\/p>\nCapone, born Anthony Douglas Gilmour in Berkeley, learned to DJ while attending Berkeley High School. He often performed at college and house parties with his close friend Nick Peace, who became an accomplished hip-hop producer as well. While Bay Area hip-hop was famously independent and insular, Capone produced singles for major-label groups like the R&B combo SWV and the Oakland group Capital Tax, rooted in his love of \u201870s soul and hard-edged funk. <\/p>\n
His sound \u2014 soulful yet martial, with a distinct, emphatic downbeat \u2014 yielded some of the region\u2019s most beloved and distinct hip-hop hits, including Mac Dre\u2019s \u201cFire\u201d and \u201cNot My Job,\u201d E-40\u2019s \u201cRing It,\u201d 3xKrazy\u2019s \u201cKeep It on the Real\u201d and cuts by Celly Cel, Andre Nickatina and countless others. <\/p>\n
He\u2019ll be best known for Luniz\u2019 1995 hit \u201cI Got 5 On It,\u201d a slinky, spooky track riffing on the Club Nouveau song \u201cWhy You Treat Me So Bad,\u201d which entered the canon of ageless west coast hip-hop. The song hit the Billboard top ten, and recently resurfaced in a slow, eerie remix for Jordan Peele\u2019s 2019 horror film \u201cUs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Capone\u2019s slow-rolling sound also traveled well to Houston, he worked with Scarface, Devin the Dude and more. His productions on Scarface\u2019s 1997\u2019s \u201cThe Untouchable\u201d helped it go platinum, with \u201cSmile\u201d sporting one of the last verses recorded by Tupac Shakur. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tone Capone, the Bay Area producer whose smash hit \u201cI Got 5 On It\u201d for Luniz defined his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[184072,184071,184069,184070,13396,339,184073,184067,56654,48,52,51,47,50,49,173034,184074,18303,10263,184068,184066],"class_list":["post-467379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-70-soul","tag-andre-nickatina","tag-bay-area-producer","tag-celly-cel","tag-cut","tag-death","tag-devin","tag-hip-hop-sound","tag-horror-film","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-luniz","tag-major-label-group","tag-producer","tag-region","tag-scarface","tag-tone-capone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}