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Blunt Fang (@FANGLIFE777), habitual rap god/grain gripper, lane switcher/ATL shawty extraordinaire, has a few words bout the new summer blockbuster night extravaganza Double Dragon. Read on and let the man educate y’all on our self expression, plus peep him styling/jocking on ya bitch ass on “Inventory” (track 3 for you CD niggas) from the mixtape at the same damn time.

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 (Photo: Nathanael Turner)

Them goddamn Denim Guinness Boys, FAT TONY (RAPPER/HOUSTON MAGNATE) & TOM CRUZ (GAMESPITTER/PRODUCER/LITERALMASTERCHEF), fresh off of Rabdargab (and Screwdargab !) team up once again to flash skill on ducks like Maverick with the Russian Mig with a monument to the true potential MAXIMUM EXCELLENCE hidden within rap music, DOUBLE DRAGON. 

The shit rides pimpin. But it ain’t no lazy rap affair in which you have to really love the niggas ethos, message, or weird way he acts in music videos to comprehend. THE RHYMING IS 1998JIGGAMAN STATUS VS HEY YOUNG WORLD SLICK RICK (WHAT NIGGAS IS SAYING IS EQUALLY AS BRILLIANT AS HOW NIGGAS IS SAYING IT AND THE TIME THEYRE SAYING IT IN). Welcome to a new fully equipped rap that is solid in every way but REPLETE with surprises/plot twists. Productionwise I hear KURTISBLOW/MANNIEFRESH/WINGS/TIMBALAND rollicking popping/cracking (depending on your allegiances*) energy synthesized through the peculiar  video game/dancehall aspects of Tom Cruz’s childhood. There’s space when the vocals need space but the lush landscape of sounds conjures a lot expiremental classic POP references however, I’m sure they’d rather you figure that shit out on your own.

WARNING FOR THE WEAK MINDED/HEARTED:  This ain’t no thin chicken stock conceptually weak fuckdown. It’s what you play as the night falls on you and she’s all on you and it’s all on you.

DOUBLE DRAGON is a mixtape so don’t fret, a lot (of girls) get(s( touched on, PLENTYBANGFORTHEBUCK. Now, Let’s talk DOLLAR$ & LOW CLAS$ BRAGGING SHIT: GUESTS INCLUDE:Bun B, Murs, Nick Thorburn, Main Attrakionz, Stunnaman, Telli (Ninjasonik), 10ille, Tecla, Blunt Fang, DMX, & Honey (I’m kidding about those last two).   A divine precious non linear lineage and literal ancesty spanning HOUSTON NIGERIA JAMAICA & ATLANTA culminates in next level rhyme/beat evolution. I am a higly paid press agent living in a small apartment so my tone meanders from formal to my stoned post hood internet talk but i assure in total sincerity this is no peanut butter and jelly cornfield shit.  THESE TWO YOUNG BROTHERS CRUSH WATCH THE THRONE, FERRARI BOYZ, BEST OF BOTH WORLDS 1 & 2, & THAT JOSS STONE/DAMIANMARLEY/BONO/KERMITTHEFROG/QUEENLATIFAH COLLABO.

Listen: Fat Tony & Tom Cruz Double Dragon [DOWNLOAD]
(via Complex: Mixtape Premiere: Fat Tony & Tom Cruz “Double Dragon”) 

New Fat Tony & Tom Cruz mixtape Double Dragon released today on Young One Records! Premiered by the fine people at Complex. Produced entirely by Tom Cruz. Artwork designed by Darek Garcia.

Stream and download the mixtape here: http://www.complex.com/music/2012/06/mixtape-premiere-fat-tony-tom-cruz-double-dragon 

Enjoy. ;)

We brought you a sampling of Fat Tony and Tom Cruz’s ill new mixtape, Double Dragon, last month when we announced the launch of Young One Records. At that same time, we premiered “Bad Habits,” a contemplative lurker featuring Nick Diamonds, of Islands, and Bun B. If you were feeling that track then you’re going to love the remaining 17 cuts on Double Dragon. 

For those of you wondering, yes, the tape is built on samples from the video game series of the same name. Cruz has finely chopped and reinterpreted the melodies and grooves of the original tunes, which in part provides a backdrop of bouncing, thick, and synth-heavy beats.

They’re a choice setting for Fat Tony’s chameleon-esque delivery that adapts to whatever setting he’s presented. At one point, he goes from hip-hop educator (“How to Make a Song Proper”), to club MC (“Good While It Lasted”), to shit-talker (“It’s On Again”). 

Listen: Fat Tony & Tom Cruz Double Dragon [DOWNLOAD]

TOMORROW! THURSDAY, MAY 31st! // DOUBLE DRAGON LISTENING SOCIAL

Been a minute since y’all had a new Fat Tony album in ya life, but by golly, I’m finally here to give it to ya. I reckon most of y’all heard the debut album RABDARGAB (and/or ATL legends Supreeme) and are quite familiar with producer/chef/rapper ternt singer-songwriter Tom Cruz. Well, we got TWO new records (a mixtape and an album) for that ass coming out this year on Young One Records. We been working hella hard all year long and I hope all y’all enjoy these two new records for many years to come. They are both the very best of me. My most proudest recorded moments yet.

First up… FAT TONY & TOM CRUZ - DOUBLE DRAGON. We on our Snoop & Dre, Rae & Ghost, Bun & Pimp shit on this one, ya hear. Two gods of rap joining forces to flow our ass off for all to see. Believe or not, Tom Cruz got even more wicked on the beats and even lets some of the tracks trail off on a lil ill instrumental collage. Perfect for all your freestyling needs.

Double Dragon is out this Friday, June 1st online! Look out for it. Tomorrow, Thursday May 31st we’ll be premiering the new album for the very first time publicly at the brand new west coast location of Blind Barber in Los Angeles (Culver City to be exact).

We’ll be performing a bit, playing the entire Double Dragon mixtape, and getting turnt with DJ sets by LA’s finest party people BRRRANG-A-DANG (HAM ON EVERYTHING) and Queens, NY representative @BetteryetJSH. Peep the flyer above and the info below. Click the flyer for the FB event!

It’s an early show! 6:00pm - 9:00pm. Free! Don’t be late. ;)

RSVP at fattonyrap@gmail.com for entry!

____/ / THURSDAY, MAY 31st \ \____

FAT TONY & TOM CRUZ: DOUBLE DRAGON LISTENING SOCIAL

+ Premiering the new Fat Tony & Tom Cruz album

+ A performance by Fat Tony & Tom Cruz

+ DJ sets by BRRRANG-A-DANG + @BetteryetJSH

+ COMPLIMENTARY BACARDI DRAGON BERRY COCKTAILS 
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+ Fat Tony & Tom Cruz: Double Dragon out this Friday, June 1st on Young One Records!

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6:00pm - 9:00pm
21+

BLIND BARBER
10797 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

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Photos from last Thursday’s Broader Than Broadway party at Broadway Bar. Thank you HM Soundsystem for having me & Tom Cruz in the mix, gettin it in real proper like! Shoutout to Eric aka Mr. Local Tourist, Stunnaman, Akira the Don, Yasmine from Tearist, my nigga Kevin from Austin, and everybody else that fell through the spot. Rage on. http://hmsoundsystem.com/fr_05242012

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

CHAOS IN TEJAS PRESENTS A YOUNG ONE RECORDS SHOWCASE
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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

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

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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

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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

Bad Habits (feat. Bun B and Nick Diamonds of Islands)
from Fat Tony & Tom Cruz: Double Dragon 

[Fat Tony]
Remember the feeling of cheating on him?
You said that you’d never, ever do it again
Remember the feeling of cheating on her?
Or was it all just a blur?
She said some words to readjust my nerves to thrust her curves
Told my girl, “it just occurs…”
Man, it’s hard to break that habit
When I got a bad bitch in my house stranded
Talkin’ bout she too drunk and can’t manage
But she sober enough to open the Trojan package

[Nick Diamonds / Fat Tony]
Your kiss is why we live this lie
Cause I’m wrong and she wrong, we both know why
I love your food, your cleaning too
It’s never a “goodbye”, just “see you soon…”

[Bun B]
Damn, it’s not as easy as it used to be
It’s like you acting brand new like you ain’t really used to me
I’m sitting in the den in the La-Z-Boy twistin’
Yellin’ cross the house from the dining room insisting
That I shut up and listen and you get more persistent
Tryna kick me in the dick when you used to kiss it
The past moments of peace, I’m starting to miss it
We miles apart now when we used to share kismet
Now look at this shit, falling to pieces
Used to want forever now I’m praying that it ceases
Damn, we share leases, car notes, and water bills
This ain’t the way that we ought to feel, sort of real
I guess love is an illusion
That means you’re an Angel like Criss, confusion…
I see that I’m the one losing
And now my heart carries a bruising…
Contusion…

[Nick Diamonds]
Your kiss is why we live this lie
Cause I’m wrong and she wrong, we both know why
I love your food, your cleaning too
It’s never a “goodbye”, just “see you soon…”

[Fat Tony]
Together forever never sounded better til I met the
Girl of my dreams or so it seems, and I let her
Into my jeans, my things, my home
And now I never wanna leave this bitch alone
She hits my phone (hello?)
Whenever she thinks I’m alone, insists to bone
Til I’m like, “shit, it’s on”
My girl, she pissed and moans, bitches on and on
“What the fuck is wrong? Why’d you lock your phone?!”
Now I’m going home deleting text messages
Speeding, re-reading every single sentence she said and it’s
Making me wonder if this lust is just a sedative
Keeping me sleeping, not peeping the love ahead of it
Now I love my girl but I love my dick
I like to put it in hoes that are throwed as shit
And ever since I was old enough to spit
I was told, get the most that I can get

[Nick Diamonds]
Your kiss is why we live this lie
Cause I’m wrong and she wrong, we both know why
I love your food, your cleaning too
It’s never a “goodbye”, just “see you soon…”

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 Complex: http://www.complex.com/music/2012/05/exclusive-announcing-the-launch-of-young-one-records

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

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Music Artist: Fat Tony

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RABDARGAB. 2010.

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