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| ARTIST: |
Little-T and One Track Mike
(Google this artist) |
| ALBUM: |
Fome is Dape |
| LABEL: |
Lava/Atlantic Records |
| RELEASED: |
2001 |
As the shout chorus goes, "Fome is Dape! Fome is Dape," to a wave-your-hands-in-the-air party flow, humor and irrelevance immediately come to mind, yet as the rhymes continue with more asinine, irrational remarks and funk filled grooves you must admit T and Mike are pretty "dape." But will they be famous? They've got the dape tracks…dope tracks, so fome is…fame is hanging close, and perhaps just long enough before they lose all sense of spelling.
Recipe: blend one sharing of Beastie Boys and Eminem on crazy spin and let stand until spoiled. Close enough, I don't think this quintet is too discerning. All the members play an instrument in the band except for Little-T, who along with One Track Mike, a bassist and guitarist, constitute the scrambled brains hailing from New Jersey. With more acoustics and less samples than the Beasties and less explicit wording, a slightly more implicit one - just slightly - T and M have a uniquely amusing, novel, and solid sound. While the Beasties play on vinyl scratches, samples and Grand Master Flash-esque enunciation for their trademark vocal and beat style, TM have also carved out their own sound. Jam a bar of Fight Club soap into Eminem's spewing spout, swap one Beastie for a Temptation, and the other for any random Texan (T&M actually harmonize on a country and Motown influenced "A Little More." As much humor as it is display of their variance) and you'd have something resembling Little-T and Mike in sound, but otherwise different in attire. The duo are from Rutgers University where their course records likely have them under the names Timothy Sullivan and Michael Flannery respectively. But if T and M had their steadfast way, instructors would indeed have students going by such peculiar names as Little-T and One Track Mike as their parody song, "Guidance Counselor," where they declare, "I ain't never gonna grow to be nothin'/ Nothin' but a super MC," may suggest.
Earlier this year they packed club dates, including one in NYC. As word of their infectiously fresh funk and carefree, big laughs narratives spread from their hometown, to MTV rotation, and gradual radio format crossover domination, they'll be in the game of Fame before the label informs them, " One of y'all is dyslexic."
"Hello, is Shaniqua there?" Little-T and One Track Mike still don't know where she went, but if fome and dape go their way, Shaniqua will wanna know where they are.
review by Wesley Chu
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