 "The composition" earned several music awards, including the Billboard Music Awards, ASCAP Awards, Annual Winter Music Conference Awards and the BMI Urban Award of Achievement.In 2000, Finally was ranked as the 29th out of 100 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time at the VH1's five-part series hosted by Paula Abdul.Amongst other, he collaborated also with Ice Cube (as a co-producer of the Hardcore's self-titled single "Hardcore/Servin em well", released in 1987) In 1990 he landed a production deal with A&M Records to manage and produce a rapper called Overweight Pooch (whose composition "I Like It" charted at number #16 on the US Dance and #58 on the UK Top 75), contributed to Malaika's singles "So Much Love" (#5 on the US Dance) and "Break It Down", as well as produced several indie records for local Phoenix's artists such as P.D.F.