The good people at @mtvhive got me drunk and let me rate beers. Read up at MTVHive.com http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/06/18/fat-tony-beer/

<33333 thanks my dear

Toronto! I’m coming to hang with y’all this weekend at NXNE.

Saturday, June 15 me & Tom Cruz rock a boat party at the Bruise Cruise!

Sunday, June 16 we play w/ Ludacris, Joey Badass, The Underachievers and more at Yonge Dundas Square.

Set times + more info on both shows below! See ya soon. ;D

Bruise Cruise | Saturday, June 15th  
| boarding 12:30 pm, departure 1:15 pm, dock time 4:00 pm |
1:30 pm – Fat Tony 
2:00 pm – We Are Wolves 
2:40 pm – Odonis Odonis 
3:20 pm – Mikal Cronin

INFO: http://nxne.com/2013/bruise-cruise-m-for-montreal

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Sunday, June 16th at Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS)
3:00 pm – Mickey Avalon
4:00 pm – Deniro Farrar
5:00 pm – The Underachievers
6:00 pm – Fat Tony
7:00 pm – Smif N’ Wessun
8:00 pm – Joey Bada$$
9:00 pm – Ludacris

Hosted by Jules Hollett. DJ sets by DJ Fusion & Ausar Ra Black Hawk.

INFO: http://nxne.com/2013/yds-sunday-june-16th

:D

tourolog:

Fat Tony Record Release Party at Knitting Factory with Tecla and 10ille © Ryan Muir

Smart Ass Black Boy album out today!

“Hood Party” video premiered today on Pitchfork :D

Hella cameos from the homies Bun B, Rai P, Doughbeezy, Kab tha Don, LE$, Killa Kyleon, Lakutis, Bebe Panthere, Rilgood, Weekend Money, Amaze 88, Blind Rob Quest (The Odd Squad), Chingo Bling, Felony (Swishahouse) and more. Appreciate y’all for coming thru the parties.

http://pitchfork.com/tv/youtube/13-music-videos/814-fat-tony-hood-party-official-music-video/

What city are you in? If it’s Houston ya gotta hit that Frenchy’s first and foremost. Any Whatburger. Pappadeaux on Sunday. Reggae Hut got a fire jerk chicken salad. Go bless that original Ninfa’s too and Van Loc. Get ur yelp on.

Try it at http://n.pr/11gZb3X before you buy it http://bit.ly/18WTEYa ;)

Smart Ass Black Boy out on Tuesday 6/11! i love you

(thanks @derekconcepciongarcia for the image lol)

me too! tell all your friends. B-)

(Photo: Rebecca Smeyne for MTV Hive)

Updated list of shows! Let’s hang soon.
More info at http://fattonyrap.com/post/3838748941

What other cities should I play?

6/10 - Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory [SABB release party]
6/15- Toronto, ON - Bruise Cruise [boat party!]
6/16 - Toronto, ON - NXNE
6/29 - New York, NY - Village Voice 4 Knots Festival
7/19 - Denver, CO - UMS Festival
9/6 - Raleigh, NC - Hospcotch Festival
9/20 - Grinell, IA - Grinnell College

micahewood:

FAT TONY

“IT AIN’T A MIXTAPE BUT THE TAPE’S MIXED”

Much love to NPR for premiering the full stream of my new album Smart Ass Black Boy. Produced by Tom Cruz. Album out June 11! ^__^

http://n.pr/11gZb3X



P.S.

Read the lyrics at http://rapgenius.com/albums/Fat-tony/Smart-ass-black-boy ;)

Smart Ass Black Boy hat by me & Trill City! Only 24 made ;)

Available in Houston this weekend at Free Press Summer Fest (Trill City booth) + in NY June 10 at my album release party at Knitting Factory http://on.fb.me/18qESso

The FADER premiered the latest cut from Smart Ass Black Boy today! “Creepin’” featuring Stunnaman (The Pack) and Tom Cruz.

Produced by Tom Cruz + artwork by Darek Garcia.

http://www.thefader.com/2013/05/30/stream-fat-tony-f-stunnaman-and-tom-cruz-creepin/

[Fat Tony]
She told me she want it, she on me
Doggone it, she got it
Then she got a call from the man that formerly had it
He said that she’s the only one that matters
The next week, she was planning the marriage
But that next Sunday I was in her sheets…
On the creep, deep up in her cheeks
She told me that on that Tuesday we could probably meet
To beat, long as I be discreet
She got me crazy in love like Beyonce
The problem is I work for the fiancé
And have been for the past year
Plus I heard that nigga lives near
Yet I’m still up in her house
On the couch, drinking stout, she pulled her titties out
She forgot that he was coming back
And when I saw his face, I had to laugh

I can’t see me coming out of her thighs
So I gotta make her man cry

[Stunnaman]
Westside, Two Eight
No, nigga, my money straight
Candy, wet paint
Faded, this shit crazy
Mercedes with yo lady
Big pimpin’, I’m Jay-Z
Fuck em, make em pay me
Man these bitches can’t play em
Talkin swagger off the meter
Young player, don’t blame me
That Britney do aim me
Hot boy, baby
Dope dick shawty, got her coming back daily
Free Max B, yeah everything wavy
Yeah these hoes know I’m the shit
I be creepin’ with yo bitch
Got a hundred on my wrist
Ain’t nothing but a pimp

[Fat Tony]
I can’t see me coming out of her thighs
So I gotta make her man cry

[Tom Cruz]
Top Gunner, and Stunna, and Tony
These bitch ass niggas don’t know me and they can’t relate
This bitch better use Colgate when she come and blow me
Could it be an Italian bitch like Marisa Tomei?
Or a Spanish girl that say “olé”?
You ain’t gotta ask why her pussy pet name is Toby, I own her
Like the company owns the logo on the Toyota in the Daytona
Get up on her I make her say “shamona!”
And just like MJ, I cater to a lot of demographics
That specialize in acrobatics, these bitches be fanatics
I ain’t really mad at dude, it ain’t no salt
But she got them knockers
Like Silkk the Shocker, it ain’t my fault!

[Fat Tony]
It is what it is, nigga…
Fuckin’ with yo girl
On the late night tip
Night after night
Day after day
She on my dick
I’m talkin’ to you especially…

I can’t see me coming out of her thighs
So I gotta make her man cry

duhdoydorothy:

Fat Tony feat. Old Money - “BKNY” (Prod. by Tom Cruz) (Official Video) (by noisey)

Smart Ass Black Boy Review

Fat Tony, the chosen moniker of 25 year old Nigerian-American rapper Anthony Obi, has already garnered a huge following in his hometown of Houston, Texas and an ever-growing following across the country due to his witty, but not overly precious, danceable raps. Working primarily with long-time collaborator, producer Tom Cruz

“I think I balance all these things because my aim is to be a great artist in the classic sense. If you look at some of the best songwriters like Prince, Neil young, 2pac, Biggie, etc. they were all able to tackle various topics while still remaining genuine and relatable.”

“Genuine and relatable” are two perfect adjectives to describe the songs on Fat Tony’s new release Smart Ass Black Boy. Tony has a skill can seem rare in hip-hop; the ability to balance political messages with block-party bangers. When this balance is achieved, as on SABB, hip-hop has the ability to move beyond the single focused backpack rapper criticizing the school system and the single focused radio rapper focused on excessive living and represent the reality of being a young person of color today.

Marketers have often tried to divide hip-hop into camps based on lyrical content, gangstas from afrocentric ankh wearing brothers from pimps from club bangers, but in real life people are not so black and white. Young rappers like Fat Tony represent the multifaceted truth of urban life by creating truly biographical music, not music that veers into the realm of oversharing self-involvement, but music that reflects both the experience of oppression and the experience of macking on a cute girl, the experience of being a first generation American and the experience of chilling with your friends at a party.

Perhaps the most obvious example of this reflective writing style comes in the first two lines of “Hood Party,” featuring ex Das Racist and Boy Crisis member Kool A.D. and Queens’ own Despot:

I met her at the hood party, even white people know that it’s a good party
Look around your hood, they probably rent a couple properties
Around my block I hear they’re building buildings with a lobby

There are a few layers to this verse. The first is, simply, that it is a really catchy hook, with Tony’s laid back Houstonian delivery feeling like he is just casually chatting at you. After that layer, however, interpretation goes in two directions. On a cursory level, if you’re dancing to this song and having a good time, it’s just a party song, shouting out to good times and making a crack at the supposed stodginess of white people. A closer listen, if you’re listening to this song on headphones during your commute, and it’s clear that he’s talking about the rapid gentrification of traditionally maligned urban areas. What makes this verse great however, isn’t just that it is multi-leveled, but rather that it is multileveled in the same way our thought processes often are. It isn’t a polemic against gentrification, it is just remarking on how strange these urban mechanizations can seem.

The rest of the album is filled with songs that reflect that contemporary experience of being aware of the disadvantages of being a person of color in the U.S., but also reveling in the advantages of being a person in general in the U.S. and celebrating the positive above all. One of the most sweetly relatable tracks on SABB is “Father’s Day” a song lovingly dedicated to the classic first generation immigrant experience of having a parent who wanted to raise their child in America but then grew upset when they realized they were raising an American child. While the inner verses deal with the pain and frustration felt on both sides when a son doesn’t live up to his father’s expectations, the last verse is proud, admitting what we all have to admit about family:

And it feels so incredible to admit
From my skin tone to my 10 toes, I am him
From my earlobes to my elbows to my genome
I can’t deny it, not even if I try it

Fat Tony represents one of the greatest things to come out of this new generation of D.I.Y “internet famous” rappers: real realness. Not the realness that leads to arguments about what hood someone really grew up in or if they were really in that gang, but the realness honest self expression the deals openly with the good times and the bad.