Fat Boys – Big & Beautiful (Vinyl) (1986) (FLAC + 320 kbps)

Together with key collaborator Kurtis Blow and fellow three-member crews Run-D.M.C. and Whodini, Fat Boys took rap to the mainstream. While the Brooklynites looked the part, often rapped about their appetites, achieved their commercial peak by reviving oldies (“Wipeout,” “The Twist”), and even starred in a screwball comedy (Disorderlies), the trio were far more than a novelty act.

Neither an overnight nor fleeting success, they were behind four albums that went either gold or platinum, namely Fat Boys (1984), The Fat Boys Are Back (1985), Crushin’ (1987), and Coming Back Hard Again (1988). By that measure, the only rap act that surpassed them in the ’80s was Run-D.M.C. (who were behind one gold album and three platinum LPs, counts reversed by Fat Boys).

Moreover, as early as their first single, Fat Boys covered serious matters with detail and urgency, and the group’s Human Beat Box (along with Doug E. Fresh) pioneered the art of beatboxing by replicating with vocal percussion the functionality of a drum machine.

The group released their final album in the early ’90s, but they have remained a source of inspiration, perhaps best exemplified by Action Bronson’s “Let Me Breathe,” a track that incorporated the indelible chiming melody from “The Fat Boys Are Back”.

Tracklist:

A1. Sex Machine
A2. Go For It
A3. Breakdown
A4. Double-O Fat Boys
B1. Big & Beautiful
B2. Rapp Symphony (In C-Minor)
B3. Beat Box, Part III
B4. In The House
B5. Beat Box Is Rockin’

Download:

FLAC – Wayshare

320 kbps – Wayshare