Fat Tony + Cadence Weapon

15711 Waterloo Rd,Cleveland OH 44110

03 October, 2021

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Fat Tony + Cadence Weapon ALL AGES Fat Tony, Cadence Weapon Fat Tony and Cadence Weapon co-headline the Beachland Tavern on Sunday, October 3 @ 8:30pm. This Way Out, our vintage and record store, will be open during the show. You do not need a show ticket to shop at This Way Out. Fat TonyNigerian-American rapper and entertainer Fat Tony has maintained a creative resilience and unbridled enthusi&sm through the past decade of his career. His musical footprint has left behind a treasure trove of alternative r&p, spread across five albums, dozens of singles, and features on tracks by A$AP Rocky, Das Racist, and Bun B. Fat Tonyʼs sense of humor and courage to experiment mirrors the counter-cultural hip-hop artists whoʼve inspired him, like De La Soul, Devin the Dude, and DJ Screw. Although he has spent the past few years bouncing back and forth between Los Angeles and New York while hosting shows for VICE and Super Deluxe, the formative rap scene in Houston where he grew up will always feel like home. Fat Tony (born Anthony Lawson Jude Ifeanyichukwu Obiawunaotu) spent his childhood in Houstonʼs historically black and culturally radical neighborhood, the Third W&rd. “My mom and my teachers told us that back in the day that the Black Pantherʼs Houston chapter was in Third Ward and that the Black Panther figure, Carl Hampton, was murdered by the HPD.” Fat Tony recalls. “So I was growing up in an environment where social awareness and Pan-Africanism were always around.” His childhood home was filled with records—country music, King Sunny Adé, and Jimmy Cliff from his father’s collection, his mother’s classical music, rock, and soul, and his granny’s gospel. Then as a teenager, empowered by the internet and his discovery of independent artists like E-40, Bikini Kill, and Bad Brains, Fat Tony began recording and distributing his own music. Heavily influenced by renowned Texas rappers like UGK and Scarface, Fat Tony started playing and organizing live shows at a time when there wasnʼt much of & scene for young artists in Houston. He started booking bands of all types from all over, hand-making flyers for the shows and mailing them to addresses nabbed from the Carnegie Vanguard High School student directory. His dedication to Houstonʼs rap scene earned him Houston Press Music Awardsʼ “Best Underground Hip Hop Artist” in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2013. Primed for more national audiences, Fat Tony began taking his music on tour and collaborated with more artists around the country. His sonically unpredictable and emotionally vulnerable music has garnered praise from Pitchfork, The Fader, and Noisey. His achievements in rap have pushed him out of his comfort zone into other performance and hosting opportunities on TV and the Internet. www.anthonyobi.com • Facebook • Instagram • Twitter • YouTube Cadence WeaponCadence Weapon is Edmonton-born, Toronto-based rapper, producer, writer and poet Rollie Pemberton. The son of a pioneering hip-hop radio DJ, Pemberton grew up around a diverse library of music. Splitting his time between Edmonton’s experimental electronic and underground rap scenes as a teenager, Pemberton eventually developed a hybrid of both styles. Cadence Weapon has released four albums, all of which have been nominated for the Polaris Prize, with Breaking Kayfabe (2006) and Hope In Dirt City (2012) being shortlist nominees. Pemberton has toured extensively following the success of these albums, playingfestivals like Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork Music Festival, Roskilde and Primavera Sound and performing shows with artists such as Public Enemy, Diplo, Questlove, De La Soul and many more. Pemberton’s music is known for pairing groundbreaking production with incisive, socially conscious lyricism. Pemberton served as Poet Laureate of Edmonton from 2009 to 2011, making him the literary ambassador of his hometown. His poem “The Garden” was incorporated into a bronze sculpture at the Alberta Legislature Grounds in Edmonton in 2018. Pemberton was the narrator and a writer for the VICELAND television series PAYDAY and Mister Tachyon and he has hosted lectures and conducted live interviews for CBC q and Red Bull Music Academy. Pemberton is writing a book about his career called Bedroom Rapper that will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Fall 2022 and his new album Parallel World is out on April 30, 2021. Using elements of trap, drill, grime and acid house, Cadence touches on themes of systemic racism, structural inequality, police profiling, gentrification, the internet’s pervasive effects on our lives and the surveillance state. www.cadenceweaponmusic.com • Facebook • Twitter • Soundcloud Fat Tony, Cadence Weapon