http://fattonyrap.com/

Ay Brooklyn! I booked a show for my friends and it’s finna...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:41:47 -0500

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...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:26:49 -0500

“[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...

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:07:18 -0500

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...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:59:40 -0500

“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 love you <3 :)

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:05:00 -0500

<33333

Photo

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:03:01 -0500

I made a mix for the Downtown Festival premiered by Complex...

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:55:58 -0500

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...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:33:00 -0500

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

very regal meeting of the minds right here y’all. tom cruz...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:37:21 -0500

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 mixtapeProduced by June...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:01:41 -0500

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...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:09:52 -0500

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?!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:52:43 -0500

yes sir hit me B-)
nick [at] wegetpress.com // fattonyrap [at] gmail.com
thanks

macaroniniggas: spicy ketchup now available at H-E-B grocery...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:22:23 -0500

macaroniniggas:

spicy ketchup now available at H-E-B grocery stores :’)

http://bit.ly/14MRqK4

life is good

throwback photo of teen tony rapping live at my lil high school...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:34:39 -0500

throwback photo of teen tony rapping live at my lil high school home away from home, a venue called super happy fun land lol. must’ve been a christmas show! baggy ass jeans.

Second single from Smart Ass Black Boy premiered today on...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:36:20 -0500

Second single from Smart Ass Black Boy premiered today on Pitchfork!

They call it “dark [and] contemplative”… WHOA THERE.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15315-i-shine/

[Fat Tony]
When niggas ain’t got no leader
They go out and drink about a liter
Tryna deter all the feelings that we fear cause we here
Been around a long, long, long time
But got twisted by the dismissive folks that control what’s mine and yours
And his and hers, I think it’s really silly how they think we think all willy nilly
When actually we know how to rise above catastrophes
And there’s been more than a few casualties,
Some travesties that never had to be
But right now I’m in Caroline’s mouth
And I feel a little bitter when some people say nigga
But I feel a little better when I’m in Susan’s Jetta
Gettin head and I don’t mean lettuce,
I knew the Lord would not forget us
And even though I have bad credit I still got leverage
Shut up, hoe
Fuck yo ideology
If you don’t think all people should be equal you shouldn’t speak to be probably
Unless you properly wanna pay a nigga
I know some assholes that might hate a nigga
But in these times, sometimes, they gotta obey a nigga

We runnin shit, they had us on a ship
Fuck everything they did, that’s why we never quit
And we up in this bitch, yeah we up in this bitch

You had our body for a long time
Keep trying but you’ll never take my mind
Cause I shine, why whine?
Nigga, I shine
She pour the wine, close the blinds
Nigga, I shine

Since genesis we all done had our own nemesis
Tryna make our lives limited
Sometimes they hit us with a few little benefits
But fuck this, let’s go off on a pilgrimage
Just like the pilgrims did and get up out this bitch
Cause if you think you get thrown in the clink
And if you dare to speak, they probably poison your drink
Or they’ll probably blink, I swear it tickles me pink
How they can tell somebody who they can marry
I bet they wouldn’t yell that shit at Katy Perry
How they gon tell a woman when she can carry?
A baby that may be, frankly, making the lady weary
She ain’t ready, it’s scary
When they tell me not to smoke, I don’t trip or fall
I hit the weed and then proceed to say “fuck all of y’all”
Y’all thinkin small when you think you ball
The third world don’t revolve around anything y’all involved in
Since the begin we was meant to win
And with God’s blessing, we overcame oppression
He was testing, what a lesson

So now we runnin shit, they had us on a ship
Fuck everything they did, that’s why we never quit
And we up in this bitch, yeah we up in this bitch

You had our body for a ling time
Keep trying but you’ll never take my mind
Cause I shine, why whine?
Nigga, I shine
She pour the wine, close the blinds
Nigga, I shine

Tom Cruz’s debut solo album Top Gun out today! Featuring...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:20:00 -0500

Tom Cruz’s debut solo album Top Gun out today! Featuring me, Chingo Bling, Kool A.D., Blunt Fang, and 10ille! Full of jams to keep y’all entertained until my new album Smart Ass Black Boy is out June 11th! Includes epic ballads like “Spanish Girl” and “Aye Jason” plus bangers like “Concubine” and “Top Gun”.

＼(^o^)／

Get it now!
DatPiff: http://bit.ly/15jmDnm
Bandcamp: http://tomcruz.bandcamp.com/album/top-gun

A lense fixates on the tiny lavender umbrella caressing the edge of golden skinned broken hearted young woman’s mojito glass, we cut to her relaxed extended body and smirk concealing a frenzied distraught mind that is wandering from new york to houston to LA to whereever he is.

Tom Cruz, producer/visionary/rhymehighpriest, who brought you FAT TONY (HOU), SUPREEME SUPREEME (ATL), & who showed me how to remix well before I met the plug, enters the race for the GRAMMY’S OF LIFE dude with TOP GUN. The backing score shows Timbaland what he should try to do in 2013 as opposed to picking up right where My Love/whatgoesaround left off. It is lush dense color wheel of tropical mango/green coconut fantasy decadence at moments then block chilling cerulean at others to a degree that would make the Alchemist flinch at his own shadow. The craft here has been cultivated to an over ripened curdle.

Cruz has been playing fantasy football with A&Ring records since he was youth in his Diddy phase. As evidenced by his graceful usage of guest verses/vocals from frequent/longtime collaborators and new true cameos from 10ille, Chingo Bling, Kool A.D, Bluntfang, & Fat Tony.

TC’s lyrics strike at the heart and mind with honesty, clarity, reinvention of cliche, wit, & candor. One can play these songs over and over at extreme volumes to reveal elaborate sonic depth and intricacy buried beneath a Real Nigga Pop JIGGAMAN/FACEMOB/SANCHEZ/VYBZKARTELTRICKSTER aesthetic.

http://twitter.com/tcruzcontrol
http://soundcloud.com/tomcruzakatopgun
http://tomcruz.bandcamp.com

All songs produced, instruments played, and drums programmed by Tom Cruz

A&R: Jason Scott Henderson
Photo by Shirley Yu
Styled by Jon Daryn & Sheila Apolinario
Art Direction & Design by Effie Liu @ Pinkbutter Creative
Recorded by Daniel Lynas @ Ishlab Studio (Brooklyn, NY) & Paul Katzman @ Katzman Sound (Atlanta, GA)
Mixed by Tom Cruz & Paul Katzman
Mastered by Paul Parker

All stunts performed by @tcruzcontrol & @fattonyrap

rapping with my buddies on Juiceboxxx “pump it”...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:05:43 -0500

rapping with my buddies on Juiceboxxx “pump it” remix yeeeee

premiered by SPIN: http://go.spin.com/11hyC0O

Got 12 texts from a known freak
Wanted to bump it like B2K in ‘03
She blew my trumpet, I ate her crumpet later that week
A bug-a-boo
But when she’s with her boo she don’t speak
I like to pump it til the neighbors call the cops twice
P.D. pull up asking, “can I get an invite?”
I let ‘em in, who am I to hold a little spite?
Sippin Sprite, spiked
Having a hell of a night

Last night w/ rap experts @xdannyxbrownx & @ogronc in the H

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:48:57 -0500

Last night w/ rap experts @xdannyxbrownx & @ogronc in the H

doin a lil investigative reporting for the san antonio spurs...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:40:42 -0500

doin a lil investigative reporting for the san antonio spurs insider outside the nba all-star game in houston

nathanaelturner: Fat Tony $ Tom Cruz 2012 in Los Angeles...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:38:09 -0500

nathanaelturner:

Fat Tony $ Tom Cruz

2012 in Los Angeles behind our old house.