The original location of Fat Beats launched on July 14, 1994 which means FB just turned 20 years old! Business was doing so well 2 years in that Joseph Abajian decided to move the store from it’s small 9th St. basement space into a 2nd floor location on 6th Avenue. August 1996 (day?) was the grand opening of the 406 6th Avenue location. It was also the beginnings of our independent movement which had recently started bubbling about a year before. Yesterday I started converting old Hi8 video tapes to DVD and came across some interesting footage from that day. Now we had a lot of the usual suspects in the place that day such as ILL BILL, Arsonists, Lord Finesse, Adagio, Breeze Brewin, A.L. Skills, Percee P, J-Live, Mr. Live, Chino XL, Al Tariq, Black Attack, Xzibit, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Rawcotiks, Ak Skills, Rob Swift, Roc Raida, DJ Spinna and many, many more. But what took me by surprise was the appearance of this 19 year old kid who at that time nobody knew. Now I’ve had this person as a guest on my radio show years later, but it’s pretty crazy to see this footage in ’96 and think “damn, this dude was in my house then?” and not even know. More to come….
I don’t think they understand who’s in front of them
Just 1 song lead to 10 albums
Runaway style beat
In the future, this 19 year old man named Kanye West has the best rap albums from the 2000's and the 2010's.
Who would know he would become the most influential rapper of all time
The Bear boy used to be so Skinny.
Cannot deny this mans talent….
Ye was spitting. Damn, it’s interesting to see him rap in that hardcore 90s style
He killed that shit, them people tried to act like he wasn’t fire lmao
kanye 4ever
Kanye West was 19 years old.
So basically Kanye should’ve been signed back in 1996
I MADE THAT B FAMOUS
Once Kanye said if you owe me money. I yelled THE BEATNUTS!
PERCEE P IN THE BACKROUND
Black Attack in the cut!
Sounds like eazy e
Anyone know the instrumental on this
what happened to kanye man..
damn man too bad he went bonkos
Dude in the black shirt behind em a enemy fasho
Nas standing there like damn this dude cold as hell.
What beat is this I forgot
Guy on the left against the wall
The Kanye before kardishian was the best.
I LOVE THE OLD KANYE, BUT I LOVE THE NEW KANYE. He’s still like all of us, a human. And the human will never be right. Only GOD.
In 2023 everybody sees Kanye as an idiot it’s sad because he’s actually a genius just very troubled
Chilllss
Age 19