May 24

First show in Texas since SXSW! Austin! Chaos! Tejas! Young One! Turn up!CHAOS IN TEJAS PRESENTS A YOUNG ONE RECORDS SHOWCASEwww.chaosintejas.comyoungonerecords.com
MAIN ATTRAKIONZ (Young One Records)FAT TONY & TOM CRUZ (Young One Records)CITIES AVIV (Young One Records)CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT (Young One Records)NICK WOJFAST RONALDND501 N. I H 35 Austin, TX 78702www.ndvenue.com
Texas, I love you so much we lowered the tickets from $12 to $5!  Get tickets now fool! Right here! Tell a friend!http://www.ndvenue.com/event/118311/http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?lid=65954

First show in Texas since SXSW! Austin! Chaos! Tejas! Young One! Turn up!

CHAOS IN TEJAS PRESENTS A YOUNG ONE RECORDS SHOWCASE
www.chaosintejas.com
youngonerecords.com

MAIN ATTRAKIONZ (Young One Records)
FAT TONY & TOM CRUZ (Young One Records)
CITIES AVIV (Young One Records)
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT (Young One Records)
NICK WOJ
FAST RONALD

ND
501 N. I H 35 
Austin, TX 78702
www.ndvenue.com

Texas, I love you so much we lowered the tickets from $12 to $5! 
Get tickets now fool! Right here! Tell a friend!

http://www.ndvenue.com/event/118311/
http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?lid=65954

Anonymous asked: Where can I get some tickets when the tour hits ATL?

You can get tickets for the June 18th Atlanta show here: http://www.529atl.com/eventdisplay.php?id=17

My nigga Blunt Fang on the bill too!

May 22

L.A. we back up in this bitch as if we left something. This Thursday! May 24th! BROADER THAN BROADWAY at Broadway Bar (830 S. Broadway Blvd.) with your denim guinness boys Fat Tony & Tom Cruz. Cruz gon DJ and we’ll both perform. + resident DJ duo HM Soundsystem! $3 PBR all night | 21+ | NO COVER | 10:00pm - 2:00amhttps://www.facebook.com/events/331405313597506/

L.A. we back up in this bitch as if we left something.

This Thursday! May 24th!

BROADER THAN BROADWAY at Broadway Bar (830 S. Broadway Blvd.) with your denim guinness boys Fat Tony & Tom Cruz. Cruz gon DJ and we’ll both perform. + resident DJ duo HM Soundsystem!

$3 PBR all night | 21+ | NO COVER | 10:00pm - 2:00am

https://www.facebook.com/events/331405313597506/

May 20

FAT TONY & TOM CRUZ: DOUBLE DRAGON U.S. TOUR JUNE 2012 
featuring 10ILLE

6/2: Austin, TX – Chaos in Tejas !
6/3: Houston, TX – Free Press Summer Fest6/6: Chicago, IL - The Burlington $ 
6/7: Milwaukee, WI – Quarter’s $6/8: Madison, WI - TBA $ 
6/9: Detroit, MI – Detroit Synagogue $6/10: Buffalo, NY - The Vault $ 
6/11: Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands $
6/14: Manhattan, NY – Santos Party House #
6/15: Richmond, VA – Strange Matter *
6/17: Greensboro, NC – Longshank’s
6/18: Atlanta, GA – 529 &
6/21: Memphis, TN – Hi Tone ^ *
! – with Children of the Night and Main Attrakionz
$ – with Juiceboxxx
# – with Mess Kid and Fat Trel
* – with Dark Sister
& – with Turf War and Blunt Fang
^ - with Cities AvivART: Darek Garcia www.shickenscratch.com

FAT TONY & TOM CRUZ: DOUBLE DRAGON
U.S. TOUR JUNE 2012 
featuring 10ILLE
6/2: Austin, TX – Chaos in Tejas !
6/3: Houston, TX – Free Press Summer Fest
6/6: Chicago, IL - The Burlington $ 
6/7: Milwaukee, WI – Quarter’s $
6/8: Madison, WI - TBA $ 
6/9: Detroit, MI – Detroit Synagogue $
6/10: Buffalo, NY - The Vault $ 
6/11: Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands $
6/14: Manhattan, NY – Santos Party House #
6/15: Richmond, VA – Strange Matter *
6/17: Greensboro, NC – Longshank’s
6/18: Atlanta, GA – 529 &
6/21: Memphis, TN – Hi Tone ^ *

! – with Children of the Night and Main Attrakionz
$ – with Juiceboxxx
# – with Mess Kid and Fat Trel
* – with Dark Sister
& – with Turf War and Blunt Fang
^ - with Cities Aviv

ART: Darek Garcia www.shickenscratch.com

May 18

Q&A: Fat Tony Talks Young One Records, Bun B and Double DragonBy Drew Millard |  Friday, May 18, 2012(Photo: Nathanael Turner)
This week the nascent Young One Records announced its flagship artists: the rappers Children of the Night, Main Attrakionz and one Fat Tony.Hailing from the southern hip-hop hub of Houston and boasting connections with Das Racist’s Greedhead label, Fat Tony’s raps are nimble, chock-full of weird wit and idiosyncratic swagger. This and his propensity to rap over beats that sound like they’re from the year 2054 situate him nicely on the Greedhead roster.Tony spoke with Nonstop Sound via email from his California apartment, with his producer, Tom Cruz, “trying to figure out who ate my pizza.” Double Dragon, his Young One-backed mixtape, drops June 1, and he has a show at Glasslands June 11 and Santos June 14.
Nonstop Sound: What does releasing music on Young One mean to you? What attracted you to them?
Fat Tony: “It means Fat Tony fans get a double dose of us Denim Guinness Boys this year. Two new records. The first is Double Dragon, a collaborative album with Tom Cruz. Totally produced by him too.”
NS: What can we expect from Double Dragon that’s different from your other work?
FT: “Just a total progression of staying throwed in the game. More tight flows, tighter songwriting, crazy a— beats. I feel like every year is a step closer and I’m only getting better. I’m understanding what it means to make a great song every time I make a new album. I think Tom Cruz is really growing in his production too. We’re getting wiser and wilder with age.”
NS: Bun B called you “Houston’s best-kept secret.” What did that mean to you?
FT: “What may be the best kept secret to some is well known to a living legend. As a huge fan of the music I love and my home, it’s a big honor to have Bun B of UGK speak kind words on my name. And this was way before we even got together to make ‘Bad Habits.’ I grew up on UGK and appreciate a man like Bun being still involved in the mix enough to holler at a youth like me with some words of encouragement. God bless him.”
NS: What’s your process when you write? Do you put pen to paper, write in your phone, just commit stuff to memory?
FT: “Straight to memory. Made both of the new albums coming out this year in my head and in the studio. Usually I think up a first verse at home and let the rest flow once we start recording.”
NS: How do you come up with song concepts?
FT: “The concepts come from me and Tom Cruz bouncing around ideas and talking things out all day, all night. Sometimes we’ll think up a song while he’s making a beat in the wee hours of the morning. Sometimes it’ll be a song one of us thought up in the past, sometimes it’ll be something brand new that comes to one of us suddenly. We learn from each other’s abilities, and give each other the respect and trust to add our own touches to the record. I’m happy that Tom Cruz is a producer in the realest sense and not just a damn beat maker. He sticks with the song through the whole process of me writing and recording it, guiding it to where it needs to be. You need your Quincy Jones to be a Michael Jackson.”

Q&A: Fat Tony Talks Young One Records, Bun B and Double Dragon
By Drew Millard |  Friday, May 18, 2012

(Photo: Nathanael Turner)

This week the nascent Young One Records announced its flagship artists: the rappers Children of the Night, Main Attrakionz and one Fat Tony.

Hailing from the southern hip-hop hub of Houston and boasting connections with Das Racist’s Greedhead label, Fat Tony’s raps are nimble, chock-full of weird wit and idiosyncratic swagger. This and his propensity to rap over beats that sound like they’re from the year 2054 situate him nicely on the Greedhead roster.

Tony spoke with Nonstop Sound via email from his California apartment, with his producer, Tom Cruz, “trying to figure out who ate my pizza.” Double Dragon, his Young One-backed mixtape, drops June 1, and he has a show at Glasslands June 11 and Santos June 14.

Nonstop Sound: What does releasing music on Young One mean to you? What attracted you to them?

Fat Tony: “It means Fat Tony fans get a double dose of us Denim Guinness Boys this year. Two new records. The first is Double Dragon, a collaborative album with Tom Cruz. Totally produced by him too.”

NS: What can we expect from Double Dragon that’s different from your other work?

FT: “Just a total progression of staying throwed in the game. More tight flows, tighter songwriting, crazy a— beats. I feel like every year is a step closer and I’m only getting better. I’m understanding what it means to make a great song every time I make a new album. I think Tom Cruz is really growing in his production too. We’re getting wiser and wilder with age.”

NS: Bun B called you “Houston’s best-kept secret.” What did that mean to you?

FT: “What may be the best kept secret to some is well known to a living legend. As a huge fan of the music I love and my home, it’s a big honor to have Bun B of UGK speak kind words on my name. And this was way before we even got together to make ‘Bad Habits.’ I grew up on UGK and appreciate a man like Bun being still involved in the mix enough to holler at a youth like me with some words of encouragement. God bless him.”

NS: What’s your process when you write? Do you put pen to paper, write in your phone, just commit stuff to memory?

FT: “Straight to memory. Made both of the new albums coming out this year in my head and in the studio. Usually I think up a first verse at home and let the rest flow once we start recording.”

NS: How do you come up with song concepts?

FT: “The concepts come from me and Tom Cruz bouncing around ideas and talking things out all day, all night. Sometimes we’ll think up a song while he’s making a beat in the wee hours of the morning. Sometimes it’ll be a song one of us thought up in the past, sometimes it’ll be something brand new that comes to one of us suddenly. We learn from each other’s abilities, and give each other the respect and trust to add our own touches to the record. I’m happy that Tom Cruz is a producer in the realest sense and not just a damn beat maker. He sticks with the song through the whole process of me writing and recording it, guiding it to where it needs to be. You need your Quincy Jones to be a Michael Jackson.”

Tonight! Friday May 18th! Los Angeles! Click poster for event invite!
ALL DAY ALL NIGHT PRESENTS…
BA$$ED GODS 
“A re-introduction to bass” 
This is a new monthly in LA bringing together the best in….
MUSIC + ART + FASHION
MAY 18th 2012 - 9PM-2AM - 18 To Party | 21 To Drink
Kikafulo 10717 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034

- Special Guest Performances, DJ’s, Live Artists, & Clothing Companies 

LIVE PERFORMANCES 
- NOCANDO ( LOW END THEORY, HELLFYRE CLUB)
- VERBS (BANANAS, HELLFYRE CLUB)
- PISTOL MCFLY (HELLFYRE CLUB, M.A.R.S) + CHIP GNARLY ( SGODB, M.A.R.S) 
- FAT TONY (YOUNG ONE RECORDS, HOUSTON) + TOM CRUZ (YOUNG ONE RECORDS, BROOKLYN)
- CATCH LUNGS (MERMAIDS & VAMPIRES, ATLANTA)
- YOUNG TUNE (D.O.A, RILA)

DJ’s 
- NOBODY (LOW END THEORY, HELLFYRE CLUB)
- TAURUS SCOTT (HELLFYRE CLUB)
- TONY SWOOPS (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
- ARAKI (SOCIETY) + ADATONE

LIVE ARTISTS 
- GEORGE “IFRYOKA” DOMINGUEZ
- JOHNNY REYES (TOURDEFORCE)
- BORAT (BORATER CO.)
- TAME (TAME LA)

CLOTHING COMPANIES
-ALL DAY ALL NIGHT
- RILA 
- SOCIETY
- TOURDEFORCE
- TAME LA
- BORATER CO.
- GORILLA MIC

$5 BEFORE 10 
$10 AFTER

Tonight! Friday May 18th! Los Angeles! Click poster for event invite!


ALL DAY ALL NIGHT PRESENTS…

BA$$ED GODS 

“A re-introduction to bass” 

This is a new monthly in LA bringing together the best in….

MUSIC + ART + FASHION

MAY 18th 2012 - 9PM-2AM - 18 To Party | 21 To Drink

Kikafulo 
10717 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034

- Special Guest Performances, DJ’s, Live Artists, & Clothing Companies 

LIVE PERFORMANCES 

- NOCANDO ( LOW END THEORY, HELLFYRE CLUB)

- VERBS (BANANAS, HELLFYRE CLUB)

- PISTOL MCFLY (HELLFYRE CLUB, M.A.R.S) + CHIP GNARLY ( SGODB, M.A.R.S) 

- FAT TONY (YOUNG ONE RECORDS, HOUSTON) + TOM CRUZ (YOUNG ONE RECORDS, BROOKLYN)

- CATCH LUNGS (MERMAIDS & VAMPIRES, ATLANTA)

- YOUNG TUNE (D.O.A, RILA)

DJ’s 

- NOBODY (LOW END THEORY, HELLFYRE CLUB)

- TAURUS SCOTT (HELLFYRE CLUB)

- TONY SWOOPS (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)

- ARAKI (SOCIETY) + ADATONE

LIVE ARTISTS 

- GEORGE “IFRYOKA” DOMINGUEZ

- JOHNNY REYES (TOURDEFORCE)

- BORAT (BORATER CO.)

- TAME (TAME LA)

CLOTHING COMPANIES

-ALL DAY ALL NIGHT

- RILA 

- SOCIETY

- TOURDEFORCE

- TAME LA

- BORATER CO.

- GORILLA MIC

$5 BEFORE 10 

$10 AFTER

May 16

New label! Young One Records youngonerecords.comNew song featuring Bun B + Nick Diamonds (Islands/Mister Heavenly)! New Fat Tony & Tom Cruz mixtape Double Dragon out June 1st! New Young One Records cassette compilation (feat. Cities Aviv, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Main Attrakionz, and Fat Tony & Tom Cruz) free giveaway!You heard it first at Complex: http://www.complex.com/music/2012/05/exclusive-announcing-the-launch-of-young-one-records

New label! Young One Records youngonerecords.com

New song featuring Bun B + Nick Diamonds (Islands/Mister Heavenly)!

New Fat Tony & Tom Cruz mixtape Double Dragon out June 1st

New Young One Records cassette compilation (feat. Cities Aviv, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Main Attrakionz, and Fat Tony & Tom Cruz) free giveaway!

You heard it first at Complexhttp://www.complex.com/music/2012/05/exclusive-announcing-the-launch-of-young-one-records

May 15

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May 14

shickenscratch:

Original Black Xmas Flyer

BLACK CHRISTMAS 2009. O.G. DAREK DESIGNED IT.

shickenscratch:

Original Black Xmas Flyer

BLACK CHRISTMAS 2009. O.G. DAREK DESIGNED IT.

imagein:

Music Artist: Fat Tony
Photographer: Clyde Ellington Grant II of image.in
http://fattonyrap.com + http://imagein.us

RABDARGAB. 2010.

imagein:

Music Artist: Fat Tony

Photographer: Clyde Ellington Grant II of image.in

http://fattonyrap.com + http://imagein.us

RABDARGAB. 2010.

10iller:

WATTS

10iller:

WATTS

SUMMER 2010. “LIKE, HELL YEAH” MUSIC VIDEO. FUN TIMES.

SUMMER 2010. “LIKE, HELL YEAH” MUSIC VIDEO. FUN TIMES.