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TPA 102 FAT BOYS Fat Boys LP SIDE A: SIDE B: 1. Jail House Rap 1. Fat Boys 2. Stick 'Em 2. The Place To Be 3. Can You Feel It? 3. Human Beat Box 4. Don't You Dog Me The Fat Boys were the highest profiled hip hop group in the early 1980’s next to Run DMC. They were part of the first corporate sponsored rap concert (Fresh Fest), they were featured in the movie Krush Groove, one of the first rap groups to travel to Europe, and they sold hefty amounts of records and continued to balloon throughout the decade. Their beginnings were humble like most but quickly catapulted into full stardom. Appearances on radio, TV, full tours, magazine spreads and they even had their own embroidered satin jackets! Their first single; “Reality” under the name Disco 3 was released unnoticed and that’s when their fearless management of Charles Stettler and Lynda West decided to bring in one of the hottest names in rap at the time to produce; Kurtis Blow. The single “Fat Boys” with Kurtis became a instant hit and it also became the new name of the group. Kurt enlisted his music team to assemble what became the debut album by the Fat Boys. Larry Smith (Run DMC’s producer and arranger), Davy DMX, Don Blackman, and a whole slew of other session players laid the raw backbeat for the three boys from Brooklyn to rock the house! What separated their album from the majority of other rap records at the time was the pure rawness of the songs. The humorous element dominated the record but there was a prime roughness to their style that gave them a hardcore edge. Songs like Stick ‘Em, Fat Boys, The Place To Be & Human Beat Box easily display their boisterousness. CATALOG: TPA102-LP UPC: 1 20661 01021 4 STREET: 07/10/15 ALSO AVAILABLE ON COMPACT DISC! Housed in a deluxe miniature pizza box, featuring bonus audio, liner notes, rare photographs, and a promotional sticker! CATALOG: TPA101-CD UPC: 1 20661 01012 2 STREET: AVAILABLE NOW.
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