Which famous human beat box records are these snippets from? The first correct comment which gets all three correct will win a Fat Lace T Shirt.
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DJ Kev-Ski is the underrated DJ and producer behind the one time Zakia artists Dr. Luv & Kev-Ski. Their one and only smash hit ‘I Ain’t Goin Out Like That’ was made famous from repeated spins by DJ Red Alert.
Kev-Ski’s G.O.A.T.:
1. The Commodores – Zoom
2. Classical Two – Raps New Generation
3. Narkim & Hakim – [...]

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Modern rap leeches have no damn manners. Even when they’re taking a couple of kernels from Kanye’s corn on the cob (word to Andre 3000), they’re bitching and whining about whether something’s a webrip, like they’re offended or some shit. Show some gratitude nerdlingers! There was a time when you had to [...]

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Not many people know that semite, sorry, semi-retired rapper Eminem is a Jew, well half Jewish. It was recently revealed that Slim Shady was the illegitimate love child of music mogul Paul Rosenberg. Marshall sprang to fame in the late nineties with his underground smash ‘I Just Don’t Give A Fuck’. Jimmy Iovine, founder of [...]

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Real Life Hip-Hop Confessions
“My wife found out I was gay for Kanye”
As told to Matt Sanders
“Where’s your husband tonight?” asks Julie Staples, nervously tapping her still-shiny wedding ring against a half-drained tumbler of gin. “You ever ask yourself what the one you love is doing when you’re not there with them?”
Julie knocks back the rest [...]

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We have to give dap to our friends at Straight To Video. If you haven’t checked out their site do so in the privacy of your own home, you’re already on a warning from your boss for wasting time on Facebook.

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‘Dumb Dick’ by Spore 12 of Murder Crew
Commissioned by The National Arts Council to give youth the chance to express themselves (and to stop shooting people in the thighs), this instant classic from the infamous train-bomber Spore 12 works on several levels. Well, two. Two and a half at a push. Ignoring it’s unmistakable shape [...]

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The UK’s leading rap personality Tim Westwood has reinvented himself more times than we care to mention. You can find him in his current incarnation here. He’s taken some heat over the years but he’s still on top of his game. If you dig deep you’ll realise he’s had this on lock since the mid-Eighties. [...]

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It’s very hard to believe that in this over-saturated, lacklustre market place that a genuinely good Hip-Hop album that we all get excited about may be nearly upon us. It’s also hard to believe that it hasn’t got a 7 trillion dollar marketing budget behind it. How refreshing ! Learn from this, let’s Get Back [...]

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Here at the Fat to the Lace, we don’t just chronicle the new hotness, we also chronicle the old not-so-hotness. Put simply, we give a fuck what rappers do when they hang up their mics, what DJ’s do when they trade in their Technics and what producers do when they turn some piece of equipment [...]

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