Well, not exactly nothing, but what we do know about this lot can fit on  a pair of Bushwick Bill’s Y-fronts : they have a fantastic name which caused us to pick up the above 12″ when we recently came across a copy, they’re from New Jersey, they have two 12″s from 1995 on a [...]

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We resurrected this once regular feature after trawling through a pile of golden oldies and wondered…what ever happened to Sid & B-Tonn? Little is know about these signees to the joint venture label between Russell Simmons’ RUSH ASSOCIATED LABELS and Columbia Records, home to Onyx, Terminator X to name a few. Rumour has it these [...]

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What we know:
1) Drew Huge copped this from Noz over at Cocaine Blunts.
2) Because he liked the cover.
3) But it’s surprisingly good. Not essential, but good.
4) It’s not on Discogs.
5) He’s repping Delaware.
6) It’s not on Google.
What we don’t know:
1) Anything else.
Don D – Westside
Don D – Westside

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It’s always been baffling how some groups only get to make one damn record. Seeborn & Puma? Run DMC? Only ever allowed one shot in the studio. The same goes for The Two, whose 1986 Profile joint ‘The Real Grandmaster’ is far too good to go unforgotten. This was heard back in the day [...]

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The Almighty El-Cee was born with a name ideal for hip-hop: The Almighty El-Cee. Actually, we think he was really called Leroy Lott. Of his 3 12″s, two are negligible, one an absolute must-have – ‘We Have Risen’ / ‘School’s Out’ on Supertronics from 1987. Hard beats, hard rhymes, it ain’t complicated. Yet, try [...]

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Regular readers will know that, a couple of weeks back, we rapped about A.O.K’s classic ‘Shack It Up / The Signal’ 12″ as the inaugural entry in our ‘Rap Groups We Know Nothing About’ column. Well, that changed quickly, after we got some info from a reader and tracked down King MESH, the man behind [...]

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The debate about the best rap names ever rages on. Last we heard, it was down to a straight shoot-out between Froggy Frog and MC Peaches or something. Useless. No, the best names ever are Street Rapper Godzilla, from Aggravated Assault, and the man we come to pay tribute to today: Aggressively Intense Fierce MC. [...]

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Here at Fat Lace, we don’t roll with the standard internet way of researching things. For these cats, if it’s not on Google or Wikipedia, it doesn’t exist. No, we do all that, but we’re also down at the library poring over microfiches. We occasionally hire a ‘gumshoe’. We have men  in ports on retainers. [...]

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