The Fat Boys Are Back

The Fat Boys return with eight tracks of beatbox-driven pop rap that defined mid-80s party culture. Released on Sutra Records in 1985, The Fat Boys Are Back captures the group’s signature human percussion and novelty-rap swagger—Buffy the Human Beat Box’s mouth sounds layered over funk breaks and sampled horns. Old School Rap at its most playful and physically inventive, this vinyl remains a essential document of hip-hop’s pre-sampling era when bodies were instruments.