Klassiskt hiphop-ögonblick från Fat Beats 1996.

Det är alltid roligt när det dyker upp gamla klipp från en svunnen hiphop-tid, och nedan kan ni kolla in ett 18 år gammalt klipp på Kanye West under invigningen av Fat Beats legendariska butik på Manhattans 6th Avenue.

“My style is too cold / Always forever like Luther / But it ain’t original because I stole it from the future,” rappar den då 19 år gamle Kanye i viden, som hamnat på YouTube tack vare DJ Eclipse:

“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. At least in NYC.”