Underhated: (The Rapist) 2Pac – Me Against The World

Here at the Fat Lace HQ we don’t have much love for That Rapist 2pac. Okay, we might secretly bump ‘Pour Out A Little Liquor’ and ‘2 Of Americaz Most Wanted’ (the latter mainly because of Snoop doing his best Melle Mel impression) when nobody is around, [...]

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Underhated : Pretty much any Nas album made since the year 2000
Okay, Stillmatic isn’t a bad album (though Ether will always be the most overrated dis track in the history of rap : a string of jokes and puns about poofs which Jim Davidson would’ve rejected for being too obvious over a beat which sounds [...]

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Underhated:

Black Moon – Enta Da Stage

Let’s be honest here : beyond the classics like Who Got The Props, Enta Da Stage, I Gotcha Opin and How Many MC’s this has always been a fairly dismal record, hence the amount of superior remixes it spawned. There’s no shame in that – plenty of albums we cherish [...]

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Underhated :The Game – The Documentary

There’s a theory which suggests even the most shitty dullard of a rapper is tolerable over good production. It’s a theory we subscribe to every time we somehow manage to forget that Lil’ Dap sounds like Kermit The Frog’s nephew Robyn each time we listen to Supa Star (don’t get [...]

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Underrated: Wordsworth – Mirror Music

Who the hell knew that Wordsworth had a good LP in him? Not us. After hearing the first few outings from Punch & Words, his tag team with Punchline, on the likes of ‘Lyricist Lounge’, we’d already dismissed him and his buddy as a pair of puddle-shallow rhymers. They seemed to [...]

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Underhated:
Lil’ Wayne – The Carter 3

Look, it’s great that any rapper can sell 1.5 million in this internet ravaged climate, and we all secretly love how the helium voiced pygmy with braids from Cash Money has transformed himself into the heir apparent to Andre 3000’s throne, brushing aside rumors of ghostwriting and being bummed by [...]

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Yup, we’re back with another instalment of the divisive column where we pour cold piss on an album you probably cherish but you’re wrong.
Underhated: Kool G Rap – 4, 5, 6

Think of Kool G. Rap’s career as being like the 110 metre hurdles. But instead of hurdles it’s all sharks. This motherfucker clears ‘em all [...]

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When we first launched Fat Lace online, this was one of the first things we were going to do, an extension from the old magazine days – ‘Buried / Unearthed’ as it was then. But the sheer weight of overrated and overlooked LP’s out there led to a crippling paralysis that had us like Stephen [...]

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