THE FAT BOYS ARE BACK
The Fat Boys Are Back is the second studio album by hip hop group The Fat Boys, released in 1985 through Sutra Records. (More from Wikipedia)
I recently picked up their second album, The Fat Boys Are Back (1984), and it sure is a lot of fun. Alex Henderson says of the album for Allmusic: “Because the Fat Boys acted like buffoons, some people dismissed them as a mere novelty act. But for all their clowning, the Fat Boys had impeccable rapping technique – the skills that they bring to ‘Yes, Yes Y’all’, the title song [‘The Fat Boys Are Back’], and other wildly infectious offerings are first rate. Much to their credit, this album is fairly unpredictable; The Fat Boys Are Back finds them rapping to everything from sleek urban contemporary (‘Pump It Up’) to hard rock (‘Rock-N-Roll’) and reggae (‘Hard Core Reggae’). The latter, in fact, is one of the most impressive examples of hip hop/reggae fusion to come from rap’s second generation.”
(September 2016)
