Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Fatman Scoop Hits #1 in the UK
Congrats to my man, Fatman Scoop on hitting #1 on the notoriously fickle UK pop charts this week with his Crooklyn Clan collabo "Be Faithful."
I'm happy for Scoop, who I used to work with, before he sold his soul to the devil by going to work at Hot 97 as a DJ (kidding) and becoming a professional hip hop party motivator, but how did this happen? This record was played to death in NYC clubs and on radio at least 3 or 4 years ago and now it's a hit over there?!? Go figure.
One particularly cool thing about this story is that "Be Faithful" started out as a just another DJ record on renegade cut n paste, party breaks label AV8 and now it's beat a bunch of major label-funded and promoted records to the top of the one of the most competitive music charts on the planet. What's up with the Def Jam label affiliation on the chart listing though, am I missing something here?
With Scoop and the Black Eyed Peas having topped the UK charts recently, who could be next to blow 'cos it looks like the Brits are in one of their periodic hip hop swoons. My money's on Ludacris's "Stand Up" (especially since they've commissioned Fatboy Slim to remix the single) but I wouldn't count out one of these out-of-nowhere dirty south jawns produced by Lil Jon that are killin' New York right now if they haven't already been released there.
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I'm happy for Scoop, who I used to work with, before he sold his soul to the devil by going to work at Hot 97 as a DJ (kidding) and becoming a professional hip hop party motivator, but how did this happen? This record was played to death in NYC clubs and on radio at least 3 or 4 years ago and now it's a hit over there?!? Go figure.
One particularly cool thing about this story is that "Be Faithful" started out as a just another DJ record on renegade cut n paste, party breaks label AV8 and now it's beat a bunch of major label-funded and promoted records to the top of the one of the most competitive music charts on the planet. What's up with the Def Jam label affiliation on the chart listing though, am I missing something here?
With Scoop and the Black Eyed Peas having topped the UK charts recently, who could be next to blow 'cos it looks like the Brits are in one of their periodic hip hop swoons. My money's on Ludacris's "Stand Up" (especially since they've commissioned Fatboy Slim to remix the single) but I wouldn't count out one of these out-of-nowhere dirty south jawns produced by Lil Jon that are killin' New York right now if they haven't already been released there.
