LAST NIGHT AT THE PARISH

Man for those who didn't go, Shame on you!! It was free for Gods sake. Well whatever it was crowded and the booties were shaking.

So on with the show.
The night started off kind of slow, didn't even start bumping until after 10. I was getting kind of worried, but the people started flowing in. One by one they came in and immediately they were feeling the beats booming from the speakers and started dancing. It was wild. The breakin crew was in the house.

All the Dj's kicked ass. The one's that stood out the most were Lord Finesse and 9th Wonder. Both of them were doing their thang. Both these guys were playing a lot of old school, which I LOVE!!!!!! EPMD, RUN-DMC, LL...............If you don't know who these cats are then your missing out.

Ever since I was about 15 years old I've always wondered who Ricky Powell was. If your old school like me you will remember this from the Beastie Boys album "Pauls Boutique" "Home-boy throw in the towel, your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell". Always loved that part of the song, the name escapes me at the moment. Now 15 years later I finally find out who Ricky Powell is. This dude is crazy man, he took some time out to chat with me while I was posted up slanging cd's for Bavu.

Basically what I was doing at the show the whole night was getting people to sign up for emails, selling CD's and shirts. I think I did ok for my first time. I could have done a lot better though, but thanks to everyone who bought CD's!! Through out the night people stopped by to kick it with me and hand me free music or their business cards. People are always curious as to what I do, because I am always will Bavu. So I just tell them that I help promote, market and book shows, which is what I help do. I met a lot of great people last night. What up Flynn-D, what up PC, Sarah the artist, Kelly, Lauren, Lil Chris, Teriell Shahid. I must say that since I've been working with Bavu things have been moving super fast and it is a bit overwhelming. Sometimes I don't think I can keep up with it, but I'm lucky to have a great friend in Bavu Blakes to encourage me. Thanks buddy.

On with the show.
Bavu did a great job hosting this event. I hope we have more events like this here in Austin. DJ Qbert August 20th RSVP here

www.sciondecoder.com

. In my opinion these type of events bring people together and gives you that community feeling. Everyone is there because they love the music and they want to have fun. "We're all in the same game"

I took a few pictures before my batteries went dead. DAMN!!! I will post them later tonight.

COME JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT. BEST PART IT'S FREE!!

Tomorrow, July 26th
The Parish 214 E. 6th Street Austin, TX
9 p.m. 2.a.m. Bavu Blakes will be hosting the show
Lord Finesse, 9th Wonder, Haul & Mason, DJ Mel
slideshow by photographer Ricky Powell
Free to get in if you rsvp at

scion.com/metro

come early and stay late!!!

Pictures from Bavu Blakes Show at The Rhythm Room in Houston

This was one hell of a show. I was so impressed by all the love there was from the people in the music industry. There would have been a whole lot more people there if it hadn't been for the flooding. I just want to say thanks to all the people who came out and braved the weather. Bavu is such a great showman and I think that is what pulls the people in regardless of rain, sleet or snow. Enjoy the pictures!! Check out Matt Sonzala's houstonsoreal.blogspot for more pictures.

Steve Austin showing muscle.

Southern Gurl and Dj Chill. Holla at me Gurl!

Chalie Boy and Ryno came out to support the show. Big ups to them.

The look of a tired father and a loyal fan. It's ya boy Matt!! Yeah Yeah!! He thought I had a grill. lol

We had an All-Star of Dj's out
Dj RAPID RIC with his boy Axel

Dj Whiz T outta Dallas

"Domo's got heat so I had to I10 it."

Dj Cozmos

Piece and Chain mayne!!

Two Cool B-Boys, Kay and Deloach

Bavu controls the Mic

Chalie Boy and D-Madness wreck it.

Bavu ventures out in the crowd. Dave Stelfox in the background there in town from London.

My Posse

UP IN THA GRID IRON

It was one crazy week for me. Had all kinds of fun, except for all the damn rain. Oh and I talked to Big Hawk. We might be doing this Fat Pat shit in the next couple of weeks. So be on the look out, but in the mean time all my focus is on my main
B-Boy Bavu Blakes. Enjoy.

Blazing Saddles shirt!!! One of a kind!! Picture courtesy of Matt Sonzala


On tha grind at tha Grid Iron them Grit Boys!!! Scooby and Poppy

Scoo on the Mic

Bavu Clearing his head.

from left to right, Scooby, Bavu on the Mic, BBK in the chair,Poppy and my man TK with the Hat.

"BLAZING SADDLES" HOUSTON

BLAZING SADDLES PARTY
THIS THURSDAY JULY 14TH
HOUSTON - RHYTHM ROOM (1815 WASHINGTON AVE)

11pm Element7D (Austin)
11:25pm Deloach (Monroe, LA)
11:45pm Bavu Blakes & D-Madness (full band - Austin)
More to come.........

IT'S BEEN A MINUTE

Man it's been a while since I've written. I new this day would come. I knew that if I didn't get a hold of Big Hawk that I would exhaust all of my Fat Pat materiel. It's really sad because I had big dreams about doing this story and I guess I could proceed without him. It just doesn't seem right though. I am gonna be in Houston this weekend with Bavu to do some promotions for some shows and I hope to find a good contact to talk to about Pat.
What up Hawk, let's do this baby!!!!!!!!!

Tony-C

THE LIVEST TX RAP SHOW EVER!!!!!

THE LIVEST TX RAP SHOW EVER!!! Antone's September 16th
More details to come............

THA REAL ON THA REAL FAT PAT

What do yall think about this title? Big Hawk is missing in action. He supposedly has my phone number and is suppose to call me when his tour slows down. He told a friend of mine that he is down with helping out!! Once I get with Hawk yall better be ready for this to take off. I'm sure everyone has several questions about Pat and I want to get those answered for you. I want to write a very entertaining, heartfelt compelling story about this man. I know that when people read it
they will love it man.

Peace,
Tony-C

SUNDAYS SUCK!!!

Well just got back from Houston and got nothing accomplished that I wanted to get accomplished. Wanted to hit up some record stores in the area and maybe contact some of Fat Pats relatives or friends. Once I talk to Hawk tonight I get set a date for us to get this thing rolling. Tonight at midnight it will officially be June 27th. Time for S.U.C baby!!! BIG HAWK, BIG MOE, BIG POKEY, ESG, LIL KEKE, LIL O, YOUNGSTAR.........
Peace,
Tony-C

BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!!

Man this has to have been one of the Busiest weekends of the year. Driving all over the place. San Marcos to Austin to Lockhart to Luling back to San Marcos. Yeah plus this was Fathers Day weekend. Boy I hope I get busier. Getting some work from my boy Bavu Blakes. Trying to book some shows in San Marcos and getting his cd "Blazing Saddles" in some record stores. If you haven't heard it yet. Go get it. We got it up at SunDance in San Marcos and Carnival Records in Luling. SUC coming this Sunday. Big Hawk gonna be live!!!! So I got word last week that Big Hawk knows what I'm up to and wants to hook up real soon. He just has to wait for his tour to slow down. So this Fat Pat article/bio might happen after all. Bavu Blakes live July 14th Houston Texas at the Rhythm Room. Now If you don't know now you know. Peace Tony-C

FAT PATS DREAMS WHERE REAL

Found these on the net. Don't know how accurate they are, but here they are. I'm gonna break this song down and tell yall just how big Fat Pats dreams where. This song is so real man. A lot of people from low income areas have these same dreams. That is why I think people can relate.

Artist: Fat Pat
Album: Ghetto Dreams
Title: Ghetto Dreams

Ghetto dreams baby
That's what we talking bout..

[Hook]
Ghetto dreams, diamond rings
Money hoes and clothes and all those, fancy things

[Fat Pat]
Money hoes, fancy clothes
Heavy in the game, so I'm hot as cold
For paper, wake me up I think I'm dreaming
Back in the game, I thought I'd never have these things
Bitches want a ring, Rolls and plenty green
Black lacquer screens, three story dreams
House on a hill, fantasies are built
Private jet sip Moet, Sacci set now a Vette
Doing bout a hundred-five, down the highway
Yellow bone on my side, sitting sideways
Independent women, should I say franchise
Right before your eyes, I'm going nationwide
Baguettes in my mouth, smoked like a cloud
Make my mama proud, cause ain't no holding out
On my dreams, yeah I'm gon get it
Win it like the Lotto, dressed in Amavado
Alligator shoe, when I smash on the throttle
Angry super model, paparazzi follow
Money hoes and clothes, it make my head hollow
I'm drinking out the bottle, to ride on my sorrow
A better day tomorrow, is all I wish for
A millionaire dream, plus a whole lot more
The country I'll explore, navigator
System guides my way, for the lyrical AK

[Hook - 2x]

[Fat Pat]
Stacks to be made, in the world gon get it
Opportunities come, a mile a minute
From start to finish, have big dreams baby
Coming down Mercedes, everybody's angry
Rapper or emcee, whatever you wanna call it
Credit cards or cash, we balling in the mall and
Hauling, three T.V.'s in my load
Marble on my dash, got wood on my do's


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Who knows, what the world unfold as it go
Round and round, I'ma keep putting it down
Endo pounds, getting sent from out of town
Me and my partna, in the kitchen breaking chickens down
Making plastic fried, whoa look at me now
I'm shining like the sun, Rolex dimaonds
Here I come here I come, top down in my Bentley
All my enemies looking, but come on get me

[Hook - 2x]

[Fat Pat]
This just the beginning, of a next episode
The game unfold, down a 24 karat road
To success, no settling for less
Strive to be the best, if I'm broke I can't rest
Mind full of stress, so I break for my dream
Like I'm running a marathon, and capalon hustle for me
And my son, my job is never done
It's like I'm one on one, me against the world
And it's hard to hold on, but I keep a tight grip
Write another song, drop it like it's hot no time to prolong
Get out the hood, was something like a dream
Whoever thought, Fat Pat would rap sing
Have all these things, I'll be just like a king
In your face one more time, just to let you know
Coming up is impossible, if you don't hustle
Trust no info, coming from the back
Cause haters come in all size and forms, and that's a fact
When I was growing up, I never got no slack
No handouts for Pat, had to grind for it black
I let my nuts hang in the game, pumped hard for it mayn
When it sleets no rain, I wanted big thangs
Plus a whole lot of what, pocket change
Don't knock Pat, coming down the boulevard true
Fantasies and dreams, I just came through

[Hook - 4x]

A LITTLE PREVIEW OF WHAT'S TO COME

This is just me brainstorming. Just something I came up with real quick to have up today. This is also unedited so Please Please Please give me constructive feedback. And HAWK if your reading this hit me up bro. I need your help. Peace Tony-C



Back in the day Sterling High School had a who's who's of students in it's hallways. The lyrically unchallenged K-RINO, The leader of the S.U.C and creator of Screw music DJ SCREW and The Suga Daddy Mr. Fat Pat Patrick Hawkins. Some people remember Patrick as being a well liked character at Sterling. K-RINO recalls Patrick as being the class clown and always performing flows or freestyles in the class room just for fun. It wasn't until later that Patrick would take his craft to a higher level. With the help of many people including the most respected man in Texas, DJ SCREW, would Patrick become a worldwide legend. Sadly he would never get the chance to live out his "GHETTO DREAMS".......................................

MORE ARCHIVED FAT PAT NEWS

I found some more stuff about FAT PAT online last night. I just hope I haven't come to the end of the road.

10:25 PM 2/5/1998
Suspect is sought in rapper's death
A man has been charged with murder in the shooting of a local rap musician and was being sought.
Kenneth Eric Watson, 24, is accused of killing Patrick "Fat Pat" Hawkins at an apartment in the 10400 block of South Drive on Tuesday.
Hawkins had reportedly gone there to collect money due him from a promoter.
Anyone with information about Watson's whereabouts is asked to call Houston homicide investigators at 713-308-3600.

ARCHIVED FAT PAT NEWS

Found this on the net today. So here you go more stuff. My goal is to fill this site with all the Fat Pat stuff I can find.

9:26 PM 2/3/1998
Local rap star shot to death as he went to collect for show
A local rapper was shot to death Tuesday afternoon in a southwest Houston apartment where he had gone to collect money for a performance.
Patrick "Fat Pat" Hawkins, 27, was shot once in the head at the Meadows Southwest Apartments, 10440 South Drive.
Homicide investigators said Hawkins and three friends went to the complex near the Southwest Freeway and Beltway 8 about 1 p.m. to collect money from a promoter.
The friends waited in a car while Hawkins went into an apartment leased to the promoter's girlfriend.
They later saw two men running from the unit.
After waiting a while longer, the friends went to the apartment to check on Hawkins but could not get inside until the manager let them in.

The Return of Tha Suga Daddy

This is gonna be the title to one of my articles about Fat Pat leading to maybe and hopefully a biography. I know there are 100 more people out there who know more about Fat Pat and who are more qualified to write a biography. So where are you at then? Step forward and offer me some assistance. Come on with it man. This is a story that the world needs to hear!!! It is very disturbing to only find a few words writing about this legendary rapper from the Dead End streets of Houston Texas!!!!!!! Big Hawk where you at??? Holla at me man. Lets get this done together man. I ain't doing this for money. I'm doing this because your brother really touched me with his music and I can see with my own eyes how his music keeps touching other people I introduce his music to.

Peace,
Tony-C

S.U.C IS COMING!!!!!

It's looking like the legendary Screwed Up Click is coming to Austin on
June 27th. Man I wouldn't miss this for the world and guess who is going to be there. Big Hawk, Fat Pats brother, I gotta interview him.

THE BEST SONG IN THE WORLD

Artist: Fat Pat
Album: Ghetto Dreams
Title: Tops Drop

[Fat Pat]
Welcome to the land, where it just don't stop
Trunks pop tops drop, and the front end hop
Paint flat screens on, acting bad in the song
Yeah it's on riding chrome, balling at my home
Texas plates don't hate, showing up in the state
Can't wait get it straight, while the front end break
Paid the cost to be the boss, looking good when I floss
Sunshine let it down, turn it up and clown
Fool around hit your block, trunk going on knock
Let it up let it pop, light up the whole block
Southside how we hold, on a gangsta stroll
Music hitting so hard, knocking off side mold
Hit the highway hooting, dro go on let it roll
Po' up the drank fire it up, make sho' the windows closed
On chrome high side, throwing up the Southside
Giving... dap coming down, wrecking the slab

[Hook - 2x]
Trunks keep popping
Tops keep dropping down in Houston
Trunks pop, trunks pop, trunks pop
Tops drop, tops drop, tops drop
Trunks keep popping
Tops keep dropping down in Houston

[Fat Pat]
Now what's up H-Town, cause we know that they feel us
Three wheeler 4 peeler, acting bad for scrilla
Swisha burna bouncing turner, sitting low on 4's
I'm pulling through the lot, slamming do's on buttons
And I'ma slide slide, slippidy slide
Pop trunk let it down, show up in my ride
Roll out the red carpet, never buy it from punks

Valet piece and chain, starched and my chain
Hit the club showing love, tip the dancer a dub
Got killa in the club, for after the club
One more time for they mind, I'ma gon put it down
It's that boy Fat Pat, yeah I got's to clown
that's right
I just wanna drop it, aaaa-aall night long
Yeah, yeeeeah, I just wanna drop it
All night long yeah, drop it, drop it, drop it

[Hook - 2x]
Trunks keep popping
Tops keep dropping down in Houston
Trunks pop, trunks pop, trunks pop
Tops drop, tops drop, tops drop
Trunks keep popping
Tops keep dropping down in Houston

[Fat Pat]
And you laced on the game, that cost a fee
Bouncing on the track, with P-A-T
Now they see how it be, I'm just a G
Cocked up on three, blowing on a whole tree
CB in the drop, crawling down on boys
Right behind him is the Lincoln, my favorite toy
Candy red with the screens, and I'm riding on cream
Mean mugs triple beams, make reality a dream
Sipping lean sticky green, make em cloud the whole scene
Europeans what the deal, making all haters chill
While I show my naked skills, gripping wood grain wheels
Running lights shining bright, floating smooth as a kite
Trunk cracked Fat Pat, breaking all haters hats
Where they at where they at, 'fore I pull out my gat
Looking good it's understood, flossing for my hood
Taking pride in my ride, like every playa should

[Hook - 4x]
Trunks keep popping
Tops keep dropping down in Houston
Trunks pop, trunks pop, trunks pop
Tops drop, tops drop, tops drop
Trunks keep popping
Tops keep dropping down in Houston

FAT PAT T-SHIRTS

I'm thinking about making a FAT PAT t-shirt. I have one already which has a picture of his album cover for "GHETTO DREAMS", but I want another one. Maybe something that says R.I.P FAT PAT and maybe something that says H-Towns Fineist. Don't know for sure what I want to have on it, but I know I want another FAT PAT shirt. Maybe something as simple as the album cover for "THROWED IN THA GAME". If anyone wants to help out let me know. The shirt would only me for personal purposed by the way.

Peace,

Tony-C

R.I.P FAT PATRICK

FAT PAT BIOGRAPHY

I haven't written in a few days and that is because I have focused all my energy into trying to write a biography about Fat Pat. He is a historic figure to me and is the only reason I started listening to Underground Texas rap. So I think the world needs to hear his story. Right now I am in the process of trying to get a hold of some rappers, producers, managers and family who knew/worked with Fat Pat. I expect the information to come pouring in from the people he knew or worked with. Keep a look out for more info.

Peace,
Tony-C

Who's Fat Pat??

I know this is kind of out of order but who cares. This is just the order that I found it online.

Real Name: Patrick Lamont Hawkins
Nicknames: Mr. Fat Pat, P-A-T, Suga Daddy
Hometown: Houston, TX
Born: 1970
Died: February 3, 1998

The Story:
Fat Pat, standing near 6'3, made a come up move around the mid-90'S with his longtime friend LiL Keke. Doing shows in various clubs and performing underground parties and garage freestyle sessions, Fat Pat gained more potential in his rapping. After being shut out by many record labels, D-Reck, founder of Wreckshop Records, heard about Fat Pat and thought he was real material. Fat Pat got signed to Wreckshop Records and started laying down raps. Then on February 3rd of 1998, Fat Pat was gunned down after he stopped by a promoter's apartment to pick up money. His friends unfortunately found his body face down, after waiting awhile for him to come back. Two weeks later his debut album, Ghetto Dreams, dropped featuring the underground hit single "Tops Drop." On the night Ghetto Dreams dropped, every rapper in the Houston area gathered up and attended his album release party. Such rap artist as Scarface, Willie D, Lil Keke, Dj Screw, the Botany Boys, South Park Mexican and many others paid their respects to the unfortunate rapper. Four months later, Wreckshop Records released his second album, "Throwed in tha Game" which featured the single, "Holla at 'Cha Later." And even weeks later, Dj Screw and the Screwed Up Click released their group D.E.A' s debut album, "Screwed Up For Life" There's no telling how many more Fat Pat songs are still unreleased, but whatever happens, I hope they are as tight as the last ones were.