Ignoring the clamour from idiots who think Everlast is any good, we grant our first Cracker Pass of the new regime to one Tony D. Don’t get it twisted, this isn’t the Anthony who produced joints for MC Serch and numerous fools on Idlers. This is the Trenton legend Tony D. The YZ-PRT hate triangle [...]

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Remember when Dre really mattered and hip-hop moved units? Earlier in the month we said we wouldn’t speculate as to whether the ‘Detox’ album may or may not materialise this year. We’ll stand by that, but even if it did you could predict each step of the flimsy promotional campaign. First up, every blog [...]

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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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Greg Nice is one of those characters in hip-hop that has stood the cruel test of time. His style, personality and entertainment value is as relevant today as it was back in ‘86. He’s been the go-to-guy for any record lacking that party flavour not to mention his three classic albums as part of the [...]

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In the first of our new Fallen Soldiers feature we salute the legend that is DJ Scott LaRock (3/2/1962 – 8/27/87). Here’s some audio from an old Dave Pearce Radio London show reporting the news of Scott’s untimely passing:

Scott (pictured) calling a girl before the advent of internet dating. We imagine this would have been [...]

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Roxy Music: Having a nice day but too old to be playing on that thing
After months of research, trawling through our record libraries and interviewing thousands of Fat Lace readers for their input, we give you the definitive list of the best pre-1990 female rap songs. OK, we interviewed nobody and it’s formed [...]

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Regular readers will know that, a couple of weeks back, we rapped about A.O.K’s classic ‘Shack It Up / The Signal’ 12″ as the inaugural entry in our ‘Rap Groups We Know Nothing About’ column. Well, that changed quickly, after we got some info from a reader and tracked down King MESH, the man behind [...]

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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 [...]

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Whilst the ethos at Fat Lace Central can basically be summed up as: “Take the burning zeitgeisty issues of the day and the hip-hop issues that are really heating people up, subtract all contemporary relevance, add a tortured pun based on a record released on Nia in 1984 and throw in a picture of T [...]

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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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