Bloggin For Beats: The Fatty Girl Remix (again)

It’s funny how things happen. When the remix to Fatty Girl first came out I didn’t realize it was a remix. I hadn’t heard the original Neptunes joint, but when I did I was like “now I know why they did it over.” It was cool but it was mad slow and the Trackmasters did the damn thing flipping it with the Fat Albert sound effects. So when I found this acapella in a bunch I’d downloaded I was like “hmmm, what the hell could I do to freak it?” Building on some advice I’d gotten recently from Green Lantern about continuity (the interview is coming soon, I promise) I decided to use the Roy Ayer’s sample that Tribe used in another ode to big booties, “Bonita Applebum.” [Read more]