Tomasz Part Two: Electric Boogaloo

Ah, the Fat Boys - proof positive of the new dawn in American culture in the 1980s!!!

[Prince Markie D:] $3.99 for all you can eat?
Well, I’m a stuff my face to a funky beat!
[Kool Rock Ski:] We’re gonna walk inside, and guess what’s up:
Put some food in my plate, and some Coke in my cup
[Prince Markie D:] Give me some chicken, franks, and fries
And you can pass me a lettuce. I’m a pass it by
[Kool Rock Ski:] So keep shoveling, (Ha!) onto my plate
Give me some sweets and lots of cake
[Prince Markie D:] Give me some hot Macaroni and Cheese!
[Human Beat Box:] Give me, some more food PLEASE!
[Kool Rock Ski:] Give me some buloni, salami, and ham
Toast with butter and strawberry jam
[Prince Markie D:] I love it whether the food is cold or hot
Put a burger on the plate, and it’ll hit the spot
[Kool Rock Ski:] We’ll eat everything. An incredible feat
$3.99 for all you can eat!

Yeah,it’s no surprise the one guy died from a massive heart attack…

Yeah,it’s no surprise the one guy died from a massive heart attack…

The all-you-can-eat Sbarro’s buffet (I think that’s where they went in the music video) has felled many a good man.

I’m disappointed that, in the spirit of “The Real Roxanne” etc., that there was never a rap battle that broke out among competing groups on the subject of eating prowess.

I looked it up on Wiki earlier. The “human beat box” dude from the Fat Boys died in 1995. He was only 28. Terribly sad stuff.

heck, I think I even saw Disorderlies.

Disorderlies (exhale, cough)…fuckin A, man. Loved that shit when I was a kid. I don’t know why I qualified that. I’m still a kid and I think it’s probably still the cinematic masterpiece I remember.

Ah, the Fat Boys - proof positive of the new dawn in American culture in the 1980s!!!

[Prince Markie D:] $3.99 for all you can eat?
Well, I’m a stuff my face to a funky beat!
[Kool Rock Ski:] We’re gonna walk inside, and guess what’s up:
Put some food in my plate, and some Coke in my cup
[Prince Markie D:] Give me some chicken, franks, and fries
And you can pass me a lettuce. I’m a pass it by
[Kool Rock Ski:] So keep shoveling, (Ha!) onto my plate
Give me some sweets and lots of cake
[Prince Markie D:] Give me some hot Macaroni and Cheese!
[Human Beat Box:] Give me, some more food PLEASE!
[Kool Rock Ski:] Give me some buloni, salami, and ham
Toast with butter and strawberry jam
[Prince Markie D:] I love it whether the food is cold or hot
Put a burger on the plate, and it’ll hit the spot
[Kool Rock Ski:] We’ll eat everything. An incredible feat
$3.99 for all you can eat!

If they were a contemporary act it would be Ministry is to Tipper as the Fat Boys are to Michelle Obama.

If they were a contemporary act it would be Ministry is to Tipper as the Fat Boys are to Michelle Obama.

Well, clearly FLOTUS should use her power to enlist a hip-hop supergroup to counteract the Fat Boys’ still lingering influence on youth diets.

I must have brought up the rapper USA ONE here before; this guy who showed up at Republican conventions circa 1992 spitting these triumphantly corny raps meant to rally the base around King George I.

So why not an Obama administration-endorsed ‘dietary advice’ rap combo? They could perform outside and inside of Whole Foods locations, while going on about useless fad diets like gluten-free…shit, you could even call the rappers MC Gluten-Free, DJ Wheat Grass etc. I am getting dangerously close now to just flat out ‘kickin a verse’ to get this project off the ground…

I have the original Fat Boys album on vinyl. Actually, I have several of the soundtracks to movies listed here on vinyl. I used to be all into that stuff.

That was one of the first cassettes bought for me by a friend, gifted to me on a hippity-hoppity double bill with LL Cool J’s “Radio.”

My playback device of choice was the tape deck embedded in the chest of an [url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttmjVS84DUI]Omnibot toy. Which, very soon, would also be fed a copy of Skinny Puppy’s “Mind:TPI”, after which the Fat Boys became a little more (ahem) starved for attention in my household.

I still have my tape briefcase’s lying around somewhere…gathering dust and cobweb’s…