For Fatlip’s 2005 debut album The Loneliest Punk<\/i>, he made quite an impression by bringing in legendary producers J-Swift and Squeak E. Clean, as well as guest MCs Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) and Shock G (aka Humpty Hump) for an all-star collaboration. Sadly, the album’s been out of print since 2005, but here it’s resurrected with swirl color vinyl for Record Store Day 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cFat Leezy\u201d gets the listen off to a beat driven and soulful start with a mix of singing and gritty rapping, and \u201cFirst Heat\u201d follows with quirky percussion and electronica moments with manipulated singing behind Fatlip’s spirited rhymes. By the third track, \u201cToday’s Your Day (Whachagonedu)\u201d we start to see the guests arrive: Chali 2na contributes to the busy track, while \u201cFreestyle\u201d goes the opposite direction and is a sparse freestyle from Fatlip sans instruments.<\/p>\n
Though there are 18 tracks present, several are under a minute long. \u201cI Got The Shit\u201d is primarily instrumental with a repeating line over beats and percussion, while \u201cWriter’s Block,\u201d one of the longer tracks, is a side A highlight with careful attention to an ultra-catchy setting. <\/p>\n
Side B offers the ’70s influenced and playful \u201cCook,\u201d the bouncy and darker \u201cAll On Fly,\u201d where backing female vocals complement the tune, and the heavy scratching of the adventurous \u201cLyrical Styles.\u201d The standout track on this side, \u201cFreaky Pumps,\u201d is a spacey and infectious version of hip-hop that few could replicate with members of Digital Underground on hand. \u201cWhat’s Up Fatlip,\u201d an early single, was featured in Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland video game and is considered a hip-hop masterpiece to many. <\/p>\n
An original member of The Pharcyde, Fatlip may have taken a decade to release his solo work (he left The Pharcyde in 1995), but the fact that nearly a decade and a half after this release is still relevant, highly respected, and more creative than much of today’s hip-hop speaks volumes.\u00a0 Only 2000 of this rare gem was pressed; better act quick if you want one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10386],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-45650","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-fatlip","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45650"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}