Patiently Waiting
H
ailing from Detroit, but working in Atlanta, you can think of LoFat in the same way you may think of your favorite athlete. He reps for his hometown, but he has to do the same for where he works.
“I love my city to death, but the politics are different,” says LoFat about his decision to put it in most of his work in Atlanta. “Even with Eminem, they didn’t just embrace him immediately. He had to leave and go get put on with [Dr.] Dre for them to embrace him. The radio station wasn’t giving him love until he started making noise elsewhere. It’s a hard market to break.” Hailing from a city where the mainstream media only gravitates to Em, but also was home to a wide spectrum of artists ranging from the Esham to Slum Village, there doesn’t seem to be much room for Lo Fat’s street-skewed brand of music. Falling from the Detroit’s Most Wanted family tree (his cousin was in the group), LoFat’s music just maybe more akin to what you hear in the news about the D. “The typical experience up there is drugs, or your parents working for the Big 3,” he says. “You can go 10 different families in 10 different neighborhoods and you’re going to meet at least 2 or 3 people from each family that’s had someone shot or killed over drugs. We had fun like roller skating too, but Detroit is a money getting city.” Staying true what he came up, LoFat isn’t going to deviate too far from his environment. Earlier this year he released his Money Talks mixtape on his very own Cold Cash Records. DJ Bishop and Hittmenn DJs endorsed project is powered LoFat’s single “Walk It To the Bank” featuring Yung LA and Rocko. “I’m not gonna stop talking about getting money,” says Fat, who’s upcoming album is entitled Gorilla Money. “I don’t know a nigga who don’t want money. If you know a person that don’t want no money, you’re looking at a person who don’t want to live.” Words by Maurice G. Garland
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