Tony Tony Tony Has Done It Again
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Somewhere betwixt DJ Screw and Bad Brains, De La Soul and Scritti Politti sits the Tertiary Ward's own, Fat Tony. For the last decade, Anthony Lawson Jude Ifeanyichukwu Obiawunaotu has been everywhere, from star-making turns on the first Rocky mixtape to having a show on Viceland to co-founding a DIY culture mag with that sweet sweet fellowship money. He has played every worthwhile rap party in America and burnt the stage down every unmarried time. A singular and experimentally-minded rap artist adept at both traditional regional styles and indie pop, hardcore thrash and melodic candy-painted bangers. He is punk in the ideal sense of the word: experimental and subversive, but likewise funny, whimsical, and virtuosic.
At that place are a few things you can depend on in this schizophrenic world. Near once or twice a year, Fatty Tony volition driblet an album and information technology will sound like zip that he has done earlier. In that location's a spirit of artistic restlessness and intelligence that runs through his deep discography. He is a national treasure, one of those rappers destined to seem forever underrated until you inquire around and realize that anybody in their right heed likes Fatty Tony. He is the Whataburger of rappers: if you know yous know.
His latest is a collaboration with the producer, Taydex, who previously produced 2018's finest tangerine-suited interpretive dance anthem, "Swervin." Released on venerable D.C. indie Carpark Records (Beach Firm, Speedy Ortiz, Toro y Moi), Tony continues to ascertain himself by refusing to define himself. It is ferocious fibula-snapping double-time rap crossed with dulcet pop, fog-shrouded experimental roars, eccentric motorcar-tune trap, and minimalist post-disco sex activity raps. It is Fat Tony, forever inscrutable and filled with undeniable talent.
In accolade of the new release, I asked him to pause downwards the songs on the record. Within 24 hours, he came back with this breakup total of allusions to Mac Dre and Triple Six, Buhloone Mindstate, and stories of roommate scammers. The legend continues… — Jeff Weiss
Get Out My Way ft. Sophia Pfister (Produced by taydex & Derek Howa)
This album is about urgency and optimism. As our world crumbles from climate change and bigotry, many of u.s.a. feel forlorn and despondent. I want to encourage everyone in my community and around the earth that share our values to *go on* pushing forward. This is not the time to fall back, particularly on a personal level. The road to bettering our surroundings starts with the self. This song is musical urgency. Loud and determined, direct from my heed and Sophia'due south. "Own upwardly to it if you exercise it / Don't hibernate backside all the lies / Y'all boys wearing a disguise / I see through it, I despise / What's done in night comes to low-cal every time / More than always I'm ready to sever all the ties / Ladies, go alee, call 'em out / Fellas, go ahead, call 'em out / Put the bullshit to bed / Grab the bull by the reigns / Ain't no demand to live in shame."
Godly feat. Negashi Armada (Produced by taydex and Sky the Dude
Peace to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is my favorite song on the album. Information technology reminds me of a Wu-Tang Clan concert. Information technology's simply a grimy ass beat and lyrics for niggas that like lyrics. Last time I saw Raekwon & Ghostface live, Ghost made a point to declare Supreme Clientele equally his finest work and the oversupply went wild. That's ane of my tiptop favorite albums of all-time and a constant influence on what I do whether information technology's non sequiturs, storytelling, sense of humour, or simply having fun with language.
Negashi Armada is one of the best, from his work in the group Supreeme to his songs as Edgeless Fang aka Raiden 10. He is absolutely "on that other shit" and I recommend you investigate his music if you similar originality. "Dressed in all white, feeling godly / She said her man is a square like Godfrey / She let me beat it up like Rodney / Now that boy salty, face up scrunched upwardly, Gilbert Gottfried / Sentinel your tone, pimpin / Don't picket me / Even though I'g on the dark-green, like bocce." The latter half of this song features production by Heaven the Dude (fka Hevln) who produced my 2018 anthology 10,000 Hours. taydex and I love the Deftones, especially their album White Pony. His Deftones tattoo inspired me on this vocal too lol.
Big Ego feat. Dai Burger (Produced by taydex)
Despite what Dai Burger says in the intro of this song, she talks a lot of shit herself. I love the opening lyrics of my first poesy and wish they were the kickoff words you heard on this album. "Young, blackness, and gratuitous / I don't need to sing in key / I don't need to be on beat." Simply this ain't an intro type of song. Putting "Big Ego" first on my anthology would experience likewise thirsty, too cheesy. You gotta groove a little before you get to this one. I had The Neptunes on my mind when we made this song, specifically Justin Timberlake's "Similar I Love You." taydex came up with the guitar riff and the vanquish on the spot with Sophia and me in the studio. We did a live stream of united states making this song from start to finish for The Hyv. You can see the whole affair hither at the 01:09:48 mark:
Magnifique (Produced by taydex)
This is my 2nd favorite song on the album. I love Bay Surface area rap music in all of its forms, merely the songs at ~100 BPM are what I love the most. This was inspired by the going away party my girlfriend and I threw in summertime 2019. Our friends were way more respectful than the guests in this song merely no matter how well it goes, hosting will e'er be a niggling stressful. If annihilation inspired this song I'd say it was the start time my girlfriend's parents came to one of my DJ sets and loved when I played Mac Dre's "Feelin' Myself." Her dad particularly felt the "I treat my bowwow like an ATM card" lyric lol.
Run It Up feat. Sophia Pfister (Produced by taydex)
By now you've heard Sophia Pfister three times on this album. I met her through taydex when he brought her to one of our sessions. De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate inspired me to have her featured on the album so frequently. I dear how often Shortie No Mass appears on that album. I feel like taydex was in his jazz handbag on this one. He's an amazing drummer and it really shows on this trounce. This is my introspective tune for the album. If annihilation inspired this vocal I'd say information technology's Mutual's album Resurrection, which is his best album and we should never debate nearly it.
Omaha feat. Clarence James (Produced past taydex)
This vocal was inspired by the many miles I've racked up touring. Performing is my favorite role of existence an creative person and I barely left my hometown until I started traveling as a musician. I'll never have it for granted. This song is all about that gratitude and my view from the road. "Fork in the road, I took a correct / Looking for a spot we can spend the night / We'll get gas in Omaha / We gon' get there in no time / Just missed the rest stop, and so I missed the next spot / Pissed in a Starbucks right by the Best Purchase." Clarence James is a very soulful immature man from Texas. I discovered him through my friend Steven Cantu in Austin. He was visiting L.A. and came to one of our sessions. I believe it was one of his first times in California and so he definitely felt where I was coming from.
Wake Upwardly (Produced by taydex)
"Wake Up" and the sentiment of the album was inspired by this clip of Bishop T.D. Jakes. I found this while in a session with taydex and Sky the Dude in early 2018, just goofing around on my phone. At first, I thought information technology was hilarious. His tone, his neck, the sweat. I made a little Jersey Order edit of information technology for fun only then I took a deeper await at it. I felt what he was saying! "Wake up! Wake upwardly out of your sleep! Wake up! Stop crying and wake upwardly! Stop worrying and wake upwardly! End fretting and wake up!" It fabricated me remember of myself and the folks around me that want to surrender and clock out when things get tough. But fuck that! Nosotros must keep going. Things are going to get hard sometimes but that doesn't mean we don't deserve what we believe is correct, just, or fair. We gotta keep going for information technology. I sent taydex the prune and he sampled it into a monstrous beat. I consider this song an interlude but I wish it was much longer. The poesy is cut from something I wrote and recorded during that early 2018 session. We took the best function of the original poesy that fit the bulletin of this song.
Cutting That (Produced by taydex and Derek Howa)
We brought the guitars out in full force on this one. Three half-dozen Mafia influenced this track, peculiarly their song "Watcha Practise." Information technology's an anthology cut that I call back is 1 of their very best. That trounce is direct-upward beautiful and you get a clear take on each member's particular style. "Cut That" is an all-out assail. Information technology's easily the loudest I've ever been on a vocal. This vocal was inspired by a roommate I had my first fourth dimension living in Los Angeles in 2012. He was a random guy we met at a bar on our first night in the city. He was overly friendly, seemingly mannerly, and wouldn't stop talking virtually his former drug addiction. My friends invited him to our place to hang out later on the bar, then he shows up the side by side day considering "he was in the neighborhood."
I never trusted him, only my friends liked him enough to let him move in *and* handle sending coin to the landlord. Months after, he hustled us and rented out our rooms to his friends. Subsequently we moved out, I heard he stole camera equipment from the roommates, pawned it all, left his dog and fled town. The 2nd verse is all well-nigh him. "With friends like these / Who needs enemies?"
Make it feat. Revenge Wife (Produced by taydex and Derek Howa)
This is nearly the connection you make when two people share a creative dream. I got to know taydex through our collaboration in a way that'due south deeper than if we only knew each other socially. I believe in everyone I've committed to making a project with. I'm thankful for the piece of work we've done and the relationship that's developed from it. I met Revenge Wife when taydex brought her to one of our last sessions for this anthology. She's in the band HOLYCHILD and wrote "Xanax Damage" for Hereafter. I feel like this song is the perfect closer for the album. It's 1 last reminder to keep it pushing despite the things we remember we tin can't overcome. This beat out feels like nighttime in a small boondocks when you can see every star in the heaven.
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