The buzz on this dude is reaching fever pitch. Let’s face it, the new breed have failed to deliver so far. Wale’s album’s a disappointment, why the Lady Gaga shit? Kid Cudi, the Crookers remix was classic, that’s it. Hudson, blah. Asher who? But Jay Elec, who’d have thought a ‘Nolia native would bring NY Rap back to Illmatic. Let’s gooooooo. 2010, no other album matters. 3rd verse is the proof.

Our potnas at Spine have just relaunched Spine TV which we’re now addicted to. Peep a snippet of their feature on the Reebok Pump below as well as UK rapper Mystro’s hilarious experience with horse riding.

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Check this all star line up who came together to remember Sir Juice. The audio says it all. R.I.P.

Once in a while a new kid steps up and makes you remember what good hip-hop can sound like. We may have been a little late on Fash when we first heard him on Evidence’s ‘Layover EP’ but we were hooked from that point on. Usually we plug shit when someone pays us, that’s rarely, but this one’s on the strength,  an album actually worth paying for.

The Far Left feat Evidence

Samsonite Man feat Blu

Time for the second instalment of our great dedication records feature. Dedication records are not exclusively reserved for when your man gets his wig split, sometimes it can be about nice things like saying thanks to your fans. How novel. The Fearless Four did just that. Any UK readers older than 30 may remember Mike Allen’s regular use of this record in his show prompting us all to track down a copy of this early Tuff City classic. We also posted it up because it was the basis of our Tuff City T Shirt competition. We asked you for the catalogue # of Fearless Four ‘Dedication’ and the die hards obviously delved into their collection to pick out their own copy where as the fakers just punched it into Discogs. But we can tell the O.G. heads straight off.

So congrats to RenSki in Hamburg who won a Tuff City tee with this clincher:  “I Spent all my pocket money as a kid to buy their records, got the “Dedication” 12″ (luv that track) and almost all other good TC releases, even the Beach Boy 12″ by Gaylord.”  (Editor: Lol, he’s a Gaylord fan, it’s official)

Also congrats to Richard in Tooting, London with his clever word play clincher: “I need the shirt to replace my dirty ones as I Stink Cause I’m Funky. I also heard Black Is Back in so I promise I won’t Take It Off.”

There were two spare but of course me and Drew Huge got those.

The Fearless Four ‘Dedication’

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Anyone who owns a Fat Lace Magazine ‘Free Steady B’ or ‘Who Shot Scott La Rock?’ joint from back in the day will no doubt be looking to replace those thread bare garms as their moobs straight busted out of those shits, let’s face it, you were probably in your 20’s when you bought one of the O.G. shirts. These Fat Lace 2.0 babies are limited to a run of 50. That’s right, fiddy, so get one quick fast. They’re made of 100% material, that’s better than silk. Any Hypebeast readers will realise we’re quite literally taking the P.E.E. with the design. Quite out of character for us, we know.  No proceeds will be going to charity but if we sell enough we’ll make another next month. If we ever make a profit, rest assured the Fat Lace crew will be rocking Dapper Dan suits and Bally sneakers before you know it.

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Not many DJ’s can claim to have been name checked by Biggie and Nas on record and with that said it was incredibly sad to hear the legendary radio personality Mr. Magic aka Sir Juice passed on October 2nd 2009. As active fans of hip-hop since the early 80’s, here at Fat Lace we can proudly say we grew up listening to C90’s of early New York radio from Red Alert to Mr. Magic, that’s how we discovered some of the most amazing records we still have in our collections and reminisce about on this site today. Mr. Magic’s radio shows are a part of our music education. We didn’t have live access to LWR or the Capital Rap Show, we usually heard those on cassette too, so we usually got our first listens to the classics from tapes we acquired from friends in New York.

In case you missed it the first time around we had the great pleasure of interviewing the man himself just over a year ago. You can read the full story HERE and we sincerely hope that you do. We also interviewed another Mr. Magic expert, Will C. Find that HERE and you should also read Will’s blog post on Magic HERE.

We trawled through our archives and picked out our favourite Mr. Magic show, one where we heard some of our favourite tracks for the first time by the likes of Glamorous, Deuces Wild and many more. It’s classic material so felt it’s only right we share it with you Fat Lace die hards.

Mr. Magic WBLS 1988

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