Fat Boys (album)
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| Studio album by The Fat Boys | ||||
| Released | May 29, 1984 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 39:10 | |||
| Label | Sutra | |||
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Fat Boys is the self-titled first studio album by hip hop group The Fat Boys. The album was dedicated to the memory of Rebecca Wimbely and William (Divine) Santos.
On November 23, 2012, the album was reissued in a limited-edition CD and vinyl package. The album is housed in a pizza box, with the album itself being a picture disc of pizza, with a special book and bonus material (downloadable for the vinyl version).
In a contemporary interview and review, Sounds described both the album and single for "Fat Boys" as "well naff. It's this sort of pointless juvenile gimmickry which is rapidly turning the hip-hop culture into a trembling jelly of silliness with its desperate appeals to the lowest criteria."
In a retrospective review AllMusic stated that "Because of their comic image, some hip-hoppers dismissed the Fat Boys as a novelty act -- some, but not many." and noted that The Fat Boys were "among the best and most popular rappers of the mid-1980s. Along with Run-D.M.C., L.L. Cool J, and Whodini, the Fat Boys were the finest that hip-hop's "Second Generation" (as it was called) had to offer." The review declared it to be an "excellent debut album" which was "humorous, wildly entertaining, and unapologetically funky" and that the album was "a true hip-hop classic."
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