Had a chat with Mr. Phillip Mlynar for Impose about cats crowd surfing at my shows, backstage hospitality, my life, my music, and more. Dig in.
http://www.imposemagazine.com/features/fat-tony
Pickup the June issue of Texas Monthly im in it!
http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/fat-tony-smart-ass-black-boy
Ay Brooklyn! I booked a show for my friends and it’s finna go all the way down this Sunday, May 19 @ Silent Barn.
I got Blunt Fang from Atlanta, Cities Aviv from Memphis, and Sadaf H. Nava from Montreal. All ready to amaze.
The show is $7 and all ages like the good ol’ days. I’m gonna do a DJ I Got Hoes set too ^_- lets have fun.
https://www.facebook.com/events/156756881160279/
∞ Blunt Fang
∞ ∞ Cities Aviv
∞ ∞ ∞ Sadaf H. Nava
∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ DJ I Got Hoes (Fat Tony)
> > THE SILENT BARN < <
603 Bushwick Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11206
PRICE:
_$7
TRANSPORTATION:
_J/M to Myrtle-Broadway
_L to Jefferson
ALWAYS ALL AGES
NO BYOB
DOORS AT 8PM
![“[Smart Ass Black Boy] brims with equal parts smarts and swagger.” - New York Timeshttp://nyti.ms/YCmKq4](http://25.media.tumblr.com/f66258888e05163e9db4f155768f1378/tumblr_mmpa0pRjyj1qaty50o1_400.jpg)
“[Smart Ass Black Boy] brims with equal parts smarts and swagger.”
- New York Times
http://nyti.ms/YCmKq4
NYC tomorrow (Friday 5/10) - Me & Tom Cruz play Downtown Festival supporting Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock) at the Capitale! We on at midnight and Black Hippy at 1am.
Hella great artists are playing this festival over the next couple days including my people Cities Aviv, Antwon, Mess Kid, Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire, and more. Get your passes & tickets @ http://www.thedowntownfestival.com/
They’re selling limited tickets for select individual shows too including my gig w/ Black Hippy. Get ‘em now ;)
“His inherent charm and freewheeling stream-of-thought rap style has earned him an undeniable reputation in Texas. And he has a new album out this summer (spoiler: it’s the tits). It’s not unreasonable to assume that he could be the next one up.” - Complex Magazine
10 New Houston Rappers to Watch Out For: Fat Tony
http://www.complex.com/music/2013/05/10-new-houston-rappers-to-watch-out-for/fat-tony
![I made a mix for the Downtown Festival premiered by Complex today featuring Antwon, Earl Sweatshirt, Kilo Kish, Trash Talk, and more. See me rip it w/ Black Hippy at the Downtown Festival: NYC edition on May 10! Enjoy the mix at http://www.complex.com/music/2013/05/premiere-fat-tonys-downtown-music-festival-mixtape and read up on why I picked each song.Downtown Festival’s Fat Tony gives us a breakdown of his favorite festival-inspired tracks.1. Antwon - Sittin in Hell [Prod. by Big Baby Gandhi]Antwon is the homie. He’s getting real freaky on this one. This past weekend I played San Marcos, a lil college town in Texas. I was chillin poolside with a couple homegirls when their friend walked up on us. The friend said she drunk dialed a dude last night and got super provocative. She passed out before she could go to his place so she was on her way to see him now, just stopped to say hello to us. 10 minutes later, we get a call that the same dude ended up having a heart attack. I bet whatever she said to that man was as nasty as Antwon’s lyrics. Big Baby Gandhi is a very ill producer too. Beat reminds me of Big Baby’s really good first mixtape.2. Ab-Soul - Illuminate (feat. Kendrick Lamar) [Prod by. Skhye Hutch]Ab-Soul is so cool. He’s a real rapper’s rapper. Reminds me of everything I loved about California underground rap back in high school, keeping a CD player on me at all times to jam artists like Murs and Souls of Mischief. I’m loving his album Control System. I can listen to the whole thing all the way through almost daily. This song samples my favorite Madonna song ever, “Live to Tell”. Jealous that I didn’t rap on a beat that sampled it first. Shit.3. The Clash - Straight to HellLast year on tour with Cadence Weapon, we drove from some city to some other city late at night in total darkness listening to this song. I’ll never forget that. Intensely peaceful.4. Earl Sweatshirt - ChumMy favorite Earl song of all I’ve heard yet. Answers everything the fans and onlookers was wondering while still rhyming off the chain. Beats with pretty pianos like this make ya boy :’) and fall deep into the sofa.5. Fat Tony - Hood Party (ft. Kool A.D. and Despot) [Prod. by Tom Cruz]In the summer of 2011, I went to New York to link up with Tom Cruz and begin making a new album for my buddy’s label. I was supposed to create the album in a month on a measly budget of $1,000. Not much money at all but I was eager as always to make more music and dive wide eyed into the music business. Well, that $1,000 never came. Tom Cruz ended up getting robbed and lost his apartment. I ended up getting kicked out of where I was staying for the month. We ended up losing what little money we both had left when putting a deposit down on a new place which ended up being nothing but a scam. We were both left assed out and ended up staying at our good friend Jason’s apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey. We occupied two couches and set up a makeshift studio desk using cardboard boxes and styrofoam and began making music. Our time was cut short when I got the awful news that my grandmother was very sick. After a week that illness became her death sentence. I couldn’t deal with my grandmother, whom pretty much raised me my entire life, dying while I was away from home. I rushed back to Houston as fast I could but unfortunately didn’t make it back in time to see her alive. This is one of the few songs that ended up surviving those sessions at Jason’s house.6. Big Moe & Big Pokey (DJ Screw) - Southside We Roll on ChoppazLegendary Houston underground song by one of the most beloved artists to ever come out of my neighborhood Third Ward, the late Big Moe. It took me years to realize that this song is a reinterpretation of the Biggie Smalls tribute track by The Lox, “We’ll Always Love Big Poppa”. Can’t believe they turned a memorial song into an ode for cars hahaha. R.I.P. Big Moe and Notorious B.I.G. Two awesome obese men that have always inspired me.7. Kilo Kish - Goldmine [Prod. by Star Slinger]I’ve got a note for Kilo Kish. All she’s gotta do is circle Yes or No. ^_- xoxo8. SZA - Country [Prod. by Brandun Deshay]I hear this and run to the bar to close my tab. Good music to kiss to in the dark corners of a club.9. Fat Tony & Tom Cruz - Denim Guinness Boys [Prod. by Tom Cruz]Know your history.10. Trash Talk - ExplodeStrikes you with a fury from the very beginning, then serenades you with a lullaby of a bridge. Perf.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/4fdb56b427f1c9d3ea1d82e8f7afb62d/tumblr_mm6pxaku101qaty50o1_500.png)
I made a mix for the Downtown Festival premiered by Complex today featuring Antwon, Earl Sweatshirt, Kilo Kish, Trash Talk, and more. See me rip it w/ Black Hippy at the Downtown Festival: NYC edition on May 10!
Enjoy the mix at http://www.complex.com/music/2013/05/premiere-fat-tonys-downtown-music-festival-mixtape and read up on why I picked each song.
Downtown Festival’s Fat Tony gives us a breakdown of his favorite festival-inspired tracks.
1. Antwon - Sittin in Hell
[Prod. by Big Baby Gandhi]
Antwon is the homie. He’s getting real freaky on this one. This past weekend I played San Marcos, a lil college town in Texas. I was chillin poolside with a couple homegirls when their friend walked up on us. The friend said she drunk dialed a dude last night and got super provocative. She passed out before she could go to his place so she was on her way to see him now, just stopped to say hello to us. 10 minutes later, we get a call that the same dude ended up having a heart attack. I bet whatever she said to that man was as nasty as Antwon’s lyrics. Big Baby Gandhi is a very ill producer too. Beat reminds me of Big Baby’s really good first mixtape.
2. Ab-Soul - Illuminate (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
[Prod by. Skhye Hutch]
Ab-Soul is so cool. He’s a real rapper’s rapper. Reminds me of everything I loved about California underground rap back in high school, keeping a CD player on me at all times to jam artists like Murs and Souls of Mischief. I’m loving his album Control System. I can listen to the whole thing all the way through almost daily. This song samples my favorite Madonna song ever, “Live to Tell”. Jealous that I didn’t rap on a beat that sampled it first. Shit.
3. The Clash - Straight to Hell
Last year on tour with Cadence Weapon, we drove from some city to some other city late at night in total darkness listening to this song. I’ll never forget that. Intensely peaceful.
4. Earl Sweatshirt - Chum
My favorite Earl song of all I’ve heard yet. Answers everything the fans and onlookers was wondering while still rhyming off the chain. Beats with pretty pianos like this make ya boy :’) and fall deep into the sofa.
5. Fat Tony - Hood Party (ft. Kool A.D. and Despot)
[Prod. by Tom Cruz]
In the summer of 2011, I went to New York to link up with Tom Cruz and begin making a new album for my buddy’s label. I was supposed to create the album in a month on a measly budget of $1,000. Not much money at all but I was eager as always to make more music and dive wide eyed into the music business. Well, that $1,000 never came. Tom Cruz ended up getting robbed and lost his apartment. I ended up getting kicked out of where I was staying for the month. We ended up losing what little money we both had left when putting a deposit down on a new place which ended up being nothing but a scam. We were both left assed out and ended up staying at our good friend Jason’s apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey. We occupied two couches and set up a makeshift studio desk using cardboard boxes and styrofoam and began making music. Our time was cut short when I got the awful news that my grandmother was very sick. After a week that illness became her death sentence. I couldn’t deal with my grandmother, whom pretty much raised me my entire life, dying while I was away from home. I rushed back to Houston as fast I could but unfortunately didn’t make it back in time to see her alive. This is one of the few songs that ended up surviving those sessions at Jason’s house.
6. Big Moe & Big Pokey (DJ Screw) - Southside We Roll on Choppaz
Legendary Houston underground song by one of the most beloved artists to ever come out of my neighborhood Third Ward, the late Big Moe. It took me years to realize that this song is a reinterpretation of the Biggie Smalls tribute track by The Lox, “We’ll Always Love Big Poppa”. Can’t believe they turned a memorial song into an ode for cars hahaha. R.I.P. Big Moe and Notorious B.I.G. Two awesome obese men that have always inspired me.
7. Kilo Kish - Goldmine
[Prod. by Star Slinger]
I’ve got a note for Kilo Kish. All she’s gotta do is circle Yes or No. ^_- xoxo
8. SZA - Country
[Prod. by Brandun Deshay]
I hear this and run to the bar to close my tab. Good music to kiss to in the dark corners of a club.
9. Fat Tony & Tom Cruz - Denim Guinness Boys
[Prod. by Tom Cruz]
Know your history.
10. Trash Talk - Explode
Strikes you with a fury from the very beginning, then serenades you with a lullaby of a bridge. Perf.
hanging out with my nigs kool a.d. & kassa overall on a lil ditty called “burtation” (produced by keyboard kid) from their new album “peaceful solutions”. get it @ http://koolandkass.bandcamp.com
T-T-T-Tony and Vicky
I don’t shit on hoes like Biggie
But if you leave me a hickey
I might just flip and get pissy
I’m at home drinking Mickey’s
Turned off my phone cause I’m busy
She bout to pay me a visit
And yeah, she’s Pretty like Ricky
Threw a fit, yeah, a hissy
Cause I won’t let her kiss me
I’m selective yet picky
Gotta be protective, she’s shifty
Can’t be reckless and risky
or a lot of people will miss me
There’s overcast and it’s drippy
I admit, I’m a little sad like Missy
Now she usually diss me
But I just played in her city
And when there’s cash coming swiftly
There ain’t no way she gon miss me
And when I feel it in my warm hands
I will do the Ally McBeal baby dance
If this was the 1500’s I’d prance
Like I had ants inhabiting my pants
I feel like Steel, fuck Superman
I feel like Seal, need my roses, damn!
Ain’t gotta be Anglo for vacay homes
It’s the SAMO and it’s a shitstorm
I get explored like a BitTorrent
Not ignored like a cheap ornament
![Tom Cruz - Concubine [ft. Fat Tony, Chingo Bling, Kool A.D.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mm1lqb2OXk1qaty50o1_1367282243_cover.jpg)
very regal meeting of the minds right here y’all. tom cruz on the beat & a verse, fat tony on the hook & a verse, cancun shawty chingo bling gettin crunk, and kool a.d. gettin funky.
“concubine” from tom cruz’s album top gun thats out right now for free ya bish.
jump on it: http://tomcruz.bandcamp.com or http://www.datpiff.com/Tom-Cruz-Top-Gun-mixtape.474163.html pass it on.
She tell me that she need me and she really want it (she want it!)
She waiting on the day that she can get up on it (she on it!)
She ain’t Southwest but she a GetAway (yeah!)
I gotta say I want that girl to stay (for life!)
She tell me that she need me and she really want it (she want it!)
She waiting on the day that she can get up on it (she on it!)
She sweet like candy, a PayDay
And in my home, she’s a mainstay
When I’m out with Chingo Blingo
Girls be acting single
They ask about my single
They asking if I’m single
She whispered to me, “if you got a minute may we mingle?”
“I promise I can get it poppin like a can of Pringles”
You can often see me in Austin tossing back about cinco
Cervezas with lots of gringos till I gotta go tinkle
I’m with my people and we watching Batman, the sequel
The one with Danny DeVito, getting high as a steeple
Or high as a eagle, feeling low like a beetle
But I feel so throwed when Nicole come through
With a new do and something see-through
I peeped you, you peeped me
I think I’m bout to take a dive in the deep sea
Straight off Rai P’s Treehouse mixtape
Produced by June James
http://raipmusic.bandcamp.com
2 Blessed 2 Be Stressed
Don’t mess with Texas…
I eat Cheerios to keep my cholesterol low
Cause these hoes more salty than a Tostito
Seems the peace really be at an all-time low
Woe is me
Negativity, you need to let it go
On a pedestal, you need to get off
Paid dues and I paid the cost
Break rules to be my own boss
On the road my home is her couch
It’s F-A-T T-O-N-Y
Though I’m working all the time
Kinda losing my mind
It’s a thin line so I unwind
On the canopy, my stamina be
Enough for Pamela Anderson Lee
I don’t care if she 50
Tell TMZ that she kissed me
Straight in the mouth
Yeah, I went straight in the house
And now our tape coming out
In two weeks, about
I got my mind on the money
Not the honey on my mind
So I can’t hibernate, can’t take my time
Like Too Short said, this shit’s too short
I’m tryna explore so I gotta export
Like a factory
Actually I’m moving like a battery pack in the back of me
But I do it naturally
Tactfully, yeah I’m holding court like the Majestry
Laughably, they think they can do it all magically
Get a genie in a bottle, baby
And you’ll be ballin, maybe
They could never learn or tame me
That’s why nothing faze me
NEW YORK — MAY 10: Come see me rap the first day of Downtown Records’ Downtown Festival. Gonna rock w/ Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock) at the Capitale!
Get tickets + info: http://thedowntownfestival.com
can I interview you so I can write about you accurately, bro?!
Anonymousyes sir hit me B-)
nick [at] wegetpress.com // fattonyrap [at] gmail.com
thanks
