The Rose Tint is the second solo studio album by New Zealand rapper David Dallas. It was released as a free download on 11 May 2011 through Dawn Raid Entertainment/Dirty Management/Duck Down Music. Production was handled by Fire & Ice, Dan “Exile” Mawby, Nick “41” Maclaren, P-Money and M-Phazes. It features guest appearances from Che Fu, Freddie Gibbs, Jordache, Pieter T, PNC and Buckshot. The album peaked at number 3 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart.
Due to the album, Dallas won ‘Best Pacific Male Artist’ at the 2012 Pacific Music Awards.[3] Both the artist and the album were also nominated for ‘Album of the Year’, ‘Best Male Solo Artist’ and ‘Best Urban/Hip Hop Album’ at the 2011 New Zealand Music Awards,[4] ‘Best Pacific Urban Artist’ at 2012 Pacific Music Awards,[3] and shortlisted for the 2012 Taite Music Prize. This was considered an impressive feat for a project released as a free download.
Its lead single “Take a Picture” was nominated for ‘APRA Best Pacific Song’ at 2012 Pacific Music Awards[3] and for ‘Best Music Video’ at 2012 New Zealand Music Awards.
Dallas Released a single with rapper Freddie Gibbs, called “Caught in a Daze”.
K.Le got his hands on the instrumental, and this happened….