From DJ Eclipse:
Here's a clip from Common's Fat Beats NYC in-store for "One Day It'll All Make Sense." The in-store was actually a few days before the album was released, so we only had his single for sale that day. We were also pushing No I.D.'s "The Black Album" (w/ Dug Infinite), which had come out early that week. This Common album was the last time that No I.D. and Com would do an album together until 2011. Like most in-stores at Fat Beats, it was never limited to just the artist whose in-store it was. Many times, other artists would pop in and perform — and on this day Lord Sear (Stretch & Bobbito/Shade 45) had stopped by and got on the mic with Common. Shout out to Mista Sinista from the X-Men/X-Ecutioners, who not only did all the scratches on Common's earlier albums, but was present this day to provide the music. In fact, his album "X-Pressions" with the rest of The X-Ecutioners had dropped earlier that week as well.
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Before signing to Stones Throw and releasing his Madlib-produced album Perseverance, South Bronx emcee Percee P was a staple at Fat Beats cyphers. Known for his inimitable, multisyllabic flow, it's not hard to see how he earned his nickname "the Rhyme Inspector."
From DJ Eclipse:
In 1998 both L-Fudge and Shabaam Sahdeeq released 12" singles on Rawkus Records. Rawkus had been around for a minute, but it was with this era of releases that they really started making some noise (along with Company Flow, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Sir Menelik, The High & Mighty ...
Royce 5'9 raps an a cappella version of his song "Shine," from the album Layers.
