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Biography

The Fat Boys are a successful United States|American Hip hop music|hip hop trio from Brooklyn , New York City , that emerged in the early 1980s. Briefly, the group was known originally as the Disco 3.

Members

Prince Markie Dee|Mark Morales a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee" (born February 19, 1968)

Damon Wimbley|Damon Wimbley a.k.a. "Kool Rock-Ski" (born November 4, 1966)

Darren Robinson (rapper)|Darren Robinson a.k.a. "Buff Love" a.k.a. "The Human Beat Box" (June 10, 1967 – December 10, 1995)

History

Big Buff Love, the Human Beatbox, was a pioneer in beatboxing (using his mouth to create hip hop percussion sounds). He and another contemporary, Doug E. Fresh , popularized beatboxing, inspiring other artists to innovate, including Biz Markie and, later, others such as Rahzel . Attempting to capitalize on the appearance-oriented name of the Fat Boys, another hip hop group dubbed itself the Skinny Boys , and yet another the Fat Girls. The popularity of those groups was mild in comparison, however.

The group's 1984 self-titled debut, Fat Boys (album)|The Fat Boys , is considered by many to be an early hip hop classic, with artists like Boogie Down Productions and Redman (rapper)|Redman , among others, making references to the album. For its 1987 album, Crushin ', the Fat Boys made a cover version of The Surfaris ' Chart-topper|hit " Wipe Out (song)|Wipe Out " with The Beach Boys singing backing singer|back-up vocals . The single (music)|single made it to #12 on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard chart, and #10 on the corresponding R& B listing. The Fat Boys also recorded a version of " The Twist (song)|The Twist " with Chubby Checker , who performed it originally in 1960.

Manager Charlie Stettler was a Swiss national who'd embraced hip-hop culture. In 1983, putting the two together he contacted the nascent Swatch company and offered the talents of his group. The American office marketing group, headed by Steven Rechtschaffner and Nancy Kadner, were starting to do some offbeat, interesting campaigns, and agreed to star the Fat Boys in one of MTV earliest commercials. Stettler, knowing the video channel was playing no hip-hop, readily agreed. Even with no fee he sensed the exposure would catapult his trio into youth's mainstream. The company returned to The Fat Boys for a 1985 Christmas commercial, created by former MTV creative heads Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert .

Capitalizing on their good-humored personalities, the trio starred in the 1985 Run-D.M.C. feature film Krush Groove and in the feature film Disorderlies (1987), which featured Ralph Bellamy as a millionaire invalid who receives bumbling care by his good-natured orderly|orderlies (played by the Fat Boys), with a cameo by manager Stettler. The group was later approached to record the theme song for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), called " Are You Ready for Freddy ," which featured Robert Englund performing as Freddy Krueger .

The group's popularity ballooned by the 1990s. For example, Jay-Z laments the breakup of the Fat Boys in his song the "Heart of the City." Prince Markie Dee left the group to pursue solo (music)|solo interests, which included producing many early tracks for Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige which included her debut single, “Real Love.” In 1991, the remaining two members, Kool Rock Ski and Buff Love, carried on as a duet (music)|duo and released Mack Daddy (1991), but shortly thereafter, the group disbanded (until 2008).

On December 10, 1995, Buff Love died of a myocardial infarction|heart attack in Rosedale, Queens, New York . He was 28 years old and reportedly weighed 450& nbsp;lbs. Prince Markie Dee is currently a radio host for WMIB 103.5 FM the Beat in Miami, Florida|Miami , Florida on its afternoon drive-time show. Kool Rock-ski resides in New York.

The surviving members of the Fat Boys launched on November 5, 2008.

According to its official website, the Fat Boys have recently recorded its first track "Fat Boys Unite" in nearly two decades and have plans of doing a reality TV show in search of a new member.

In the television series Everybody Hates Chris , the episode "Everybody Hates Fake IDs" from the fourth season revolves around Chris and Greg's attempts to enter a Fat Boys concert in 1987.

In March 2009, Kool Rock-ski announced the launch of his official website,. His first solo project, " Party Time " (EP) was released on April 14, 2009.

On October 18, 2010, the cable network TV One's aired Unsung: The Story of The Fat Boys, and mentioned that the two surviving members have reunited, and are currently touring with Doug E. Fresh , temporarily filling in for the 'HumanBeatbox.' There has been no confirmation if he is the new third permanent member.

Discography

Albums

Album information
Fat Boys (album) Released: May 1984 Chart Positions: #48 US, #6 Top Hip-Hop/R& B Last RIAA certification : Gold Singles: "Fat Boys," "Stick ’Em," "Can You Feel It," "Jailhouse Rap"
The Fat Boys are Back! Released: 1985 Chart Positions: #65 US, #11 Top Hip-Hop/R& B Last RIAA certification : Gold Singles: "The Fat Boys Are Back!" "Hard Core Reggae," "Don't Be Stupid"
Big & Beautiful Released: April 1986 Chart Positions: #62 US, #10 Top Hip Hop/R& B Last RIAA certification : Singles: "Beatbox is Rocking," "Breakdown," "Sex Machine"
Crushin Released: August 14, 1987 Chart Positions: #8 US, #4 Top Hip Hop/R& B Last RIAA certification : Platinum Singles: "Crushin'," "Wipeout," "Falling in Love," "Fat Boys Dance"
Coming Back Hard Again Released: July 1, 1988 Chart Positions: #33 US, #30 Top Hip-Hop/R& B Last RIAA certification : Gold Singles: "Rock the House," "Powerlord," "The Twist"
On and On Released: October 1989 Chart Positions: #175 US, #52 Top Hip-Hop/R& B Last RIAA certification : Singles: "On and On" "Lie-Z"
Mack Daddy Released: October 28, 1991 Chart Positions: #89 Top Hip-Hop/R& B Last RIAA certification : Singles: "Mack Daddy," "You're Da Man"
All Meat, No Filler (Greatest Hits) Released: March 18, 1997 Chart Positions: - Last RIAA certification :
Original Fat Boys Archives: Fat Boys On-Rewind Released: February 10, 2009 Chart Positions:- Last RIAA certification : - Singles: "Fat Boys Unite"

Singles as one-time appearances

1985 - "Chillin With William Perry (football)|The Refrigerator " - (Sutra)

1985 - "Force M.D.s Meet the Fat Boys" on the Force M.D.s ' album Chillin’ ( Tommy Boy Records|Tommy Boy / Warner Bros. Records )

1985 - "All You Can Eat" - Krush Groove Original Soundtrack - ( Warner Bros. Records )

1985 - "Krush Groovin'" (as part of the Krush Groove All Stars) - Krush Groove Original Soundtrack - (Warner Bros. Records); reached #87 on the US R& B chart

1985 - " Sun City (song)|Sun City " - Artists United Against Apartheid - (Manhattan/EMI)

1986 - " King Holiday " - (as part of the King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew) - (Mercury/PolyGram)

1987 - "Baby, You're a Rich Man" - Disorderlies Soundtrack - (Tin Pan Apple/Polydor/PolyGram)

Filmography

1985— Knights of the City , AKA Cry of the City (New World)

1985— Krush Groove (Warner Bros. Pictures)

1985—TV commercial for Swatch|SWATCH wrist watches (AKA “Swiss-Watch”)

1986— Miami Vice TV show, episode “Florence Italy”

1986— Fat Boys On Video: Brrr, Watch ’Em! (MCA Home Video)

1987— Disorderlies (Warner Bros. Pictures)

1987— Square One (TV series)|Square One music video “Burger Pattern” (Sesame Workshop)

1988— Square One music video “One Billion”

1988— 3×3 (Tin Pan Alley/Polydor/PolyGram Music Video)

1988— T. and T. TV show starring Mr. T , episode “The Silver Angel”

1989— Square One music video “Working Backwards” (1989) (Sesame Workshop)

Other media

1988-1989- Police Academy: The Animated Series (in the animated series of Police Academy, the Fat Boys are similar and appear as House's Friends).

1987- New Coke Buff Love and The Human Beatbox improvised a rap live on the air with Guffy Roberts on the New Coke '87 "Thanksgiving Raptacular" radio special.

2000-2002- Jackass (TV series) Tracks made by The Fat Boys were used in several MTV Jackass episodes, notably the self titled song "The Fat Boys" in the Jackass skit called "Fat Fuck", which featured Brandon Dicamillo & Bam Margera dressed up as overweight people.

1989-The Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode "Bad Rap" features two chubby rappers by the name of "The Flab Boys", a reference to the Fat Boys .

The Fat Boys cover of the Surfaris song Wipe Out (instrumental)|Wipe Out was used by National Wrestling Alliance / World Championship Wrestling tag-team "Dynamic Dudes" ( John Laurinaitis & Shane Douglas ) as their Music in professional wrestling|entrance theme .

1997-The Johnny Bravo episode "Hip-Hop Flop!" Johnny hears of a hip-hop group called The Round Pound, and seeks some advice from them to gain the love to a female hip-hop fan. The hip-hop group, The Round Pound, is a reference to the Fat Boys .

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