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. [...]

[Read more →]

We’re just getting our shit together ready for the full Freaky Friday launch next week. You won’t be disappointed. In the meantime here’s another shot of the lovely Renee Richards . In case you’re wondering, she’s smiling because she just read the Random Old School Name Generator from Issue 4 and came up with up [...]

[Read more →]

Leading lights of the ‘new’ (or, by the time this gets published and the interweb has been entirely replaced by speaking iPhones, ‘crashed and burned again’) Rawkus, the Kidz In The Hall duo of Naledge and Double O are both proud to be Ivy League college graduates. Which we imagine is some sort of a [...]

[Read more →]

News has reached the Fat Lace offices that Bay Area rappers have finally achieved the numbers they have been dreaming of since their recent creative resurgence. Through a combination of hard work, Hyphy movement bandwagon jumpers and the ever-expanding rosters of the Bay’s major players, it has been reported that for the first time in [...]

[Read more →]

Ok, you earned it, welcome to the new and improved Westwood Wednesdays. Well it’s not really improved, we just changed the name and moved it to another day. On this week’s gig guide we find a Daisy Age Jam at Camberley Football Club. Don’t forget to rock those Africa Pendants, just make sure no Africans [...]

[Read more →]

Leave some comments you leeches. Tim is busy reading Fat Lace Issue #1 and we ain’t dropping Westwood Wednesdays until we feel some love.

[Read more →]

‘Speaking About A Girl Named Zoe’ by Skare
Skare, not to be confused with UK legend Skore, revels in the nickmane ‘Hispanic Causin’ Panic. In Shrewsbury’. This is one of his rare pieces with a title in English. Most of his work is definitively Spanish, with any writer worth their salt inspired by classics like ‘No [...]

[Read more →]

That’s up for debate but the Hip Hop press we once knew certainly is. There are a couple of magazines still clutching at straws. Shout out to XXL, Wax Poetics, HHC, Mass Appeal and all the other worldwide mags for their gallant efforts but by and large it ain’t the glory days of On The [...]

[Read more →]

More articles should begin with Kool G. Rap puns, believe us. Anyway, a pause for the cause to say thanks to our papyrus-rocking colleagues at The Word magazine for giving us props over here. We’ll almost forgive you for your surfeit of Bob Dylan articles…

[Read more →]

We always knew that the trio of Andy Cooper, Dizzy Dustin and Young Einstein were obsessed with food – why else name an LP ‘Taste The Secret’ and base it around the concept of a drink called ‘Meatshake’? – but they live it like they talk it. With the $3M advance they got from multinational [...]

[Read more →]