Fat Beats: The End Of A Hip-Hop Era
DJs Nazareth Nirza (left), aka Rhettmatic, and Michael Buchanan, aka House Shoes.
September 19, 2010
Fat Beats, a world-renowned hip-hop record shop specializing in vinyl releases, will shut its last retail outlet on Sunday. The closing of the Los Angeles store follows the closing of a New York location earlier this month, and some are calling it the end of an era.
"The DJ is the backbone of hip-hop, and they play vinyl. We were catering to the DJs and any hip-hop aficionados," says Nazareth Nirza, a hip-hop DJ who goes by the name Rhettmatic. He's worked at Fat Beats in Los Angeles for the past 15 years, along with other luminary DJs and producers.
(Read full Article on NPR.org...)
Archived Articles
Please make the Cache directory writable.
Mixes Menu
Feedjit Module
Latest Comments
- Why Does the DJ Cost So Much?
In all due respect The break down is great but to ... - Why Does the DJ Cost So Much?
first let me say even though I got in the game 20 ... - Why Does the DJ Cost So Much?
As a professional audio tech, i work with various ... - Why Does the DJ Cost So Much?
I'm not a DJ but had to tell you great job breakin... - Why Does the DJ Cost So Much?
That's real...............