Guys, judging by some comments today, your insatiable appetite for rude photo’s is quite disturbing so we asked Yazmin to pop into the office for a cup of tea. All we asked was “how many lumps?” and before you could say ‘check out Yazmin’s new website‘, she was rocking a Fat Lace Tee. All we [...]

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Here’s another high brow feature courtesy of your boys at the ‘Lace. When we get promotional items we don’t just secure them in an airtight vault then sell them on ebay some years later for overly inflated prices, hell no, we put them to damn good use. As the RZA seems topical again, we decided [...]

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Look to your left, we said left, now up a bit, a bit more, bingo. Why not join the Fat Lace community. That may sound uninteresting but if you sign up you’ll get a photo next to your name whenever you leave a comment. That can be so much fun. We don’t advocate signing up [...]

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There is, categorically, no such thing as a bad hip-hop reminiscing track. Whether it’s reminiscing about hip-hop, or about a dead friend, they’re always dope, period. Maybe it’s because hip-hop specialises in death – the death of people, the death of fads and genres – that it’s perfected looking backwards. ‘T.R.O.Y’, ‘Fallen Soldiers’, ‘Going Way [...]

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We gave dap to Percee-P a little while ago (here) but we just got this Egon remix of ‘Lung Collapsing Lyrics’ courtesy of our mans at Stones Throw, does anyone know the sample? We’re personally waiting for the hotly tipped Stones Throw collabo, Percee vs. Perkins.
Peep it, and if you like, leave comments, Brian and [...]

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With Ghostface – or his doll likeness, which is the same thing – currently everywhere promoting both his own ‘Big Doe Rehab’ and the Wu’s ‘8 Diagrams’, it’s unsurprising that he’s even gone so far as to throw his hat into the ring for the vacant England Manager’s (sorry, ‘England Head Coach’ as we’re now [...]

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We’ve got a special Westwood Wednesdays for you this week, live from Dingwalls Nightclub, Camden Town. Not only does the big dawg bring you classics like Ace & Action’s ‘Letter To The Better’, Lakim Shabazz ‘Red, Black & Green’ and Stezo ‘To The Max’, but London Town ragamuffins Asher D & Daddy Freddy drop [...]

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We know, stop labouring it, everyone’s done the rap songs in statistical form but we’re still going to bring you our Crap Graphs. It’s fun and you know Fat Lace, we’ll always flip chart it into something better. What other reason would we have to talk about long forgotten rappers like Freshco? ‘4 At A [...]

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Gym Class Heroes feat. Ghostface Killah & Reef Tha Lost Cauze – Clothes Off! (Stress Remix)

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This is 100% true. Ghost Deini made it to the front pages of Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper ‘Granma’ with the headline “Absolved By History”. Why you ask? On a recent trip to Havana to buy cheap cigars, Ghost popped in to see Fidel. Despite the press embargo, the two apparently got on [...]

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