Fat-D&S

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Still Breathin' is the debut album from guernsey rappers - Fat-D&S. Fat-Shadie and Fat-DJ real names Chris Torode and Dieter Gilbert formed a rap/hip-hop group in late october in 2007, and decided to make an album together, showing their rap skills, and soon turned into a proper album with lots of songs and starting out their rap career.

The original concept was that they wanted to a LP or an EP showing all their rap skills, Fat-Shadie had been doing this for a few years previously, but never fully got there making the music or showing his own skills apart from the Shadie Mix-Tape. Fat-Shadie joined along with Fat-DJ and together they formed the group Fat-D&S consisting of both of their name's and skills. Fat-DJ was an underground rapper writing and performing his own songs, with no resources, as soon as they both joined up they decided to make an LP, a home-made, all their own material, beats and creations put into the album, the original name for the LP was going to be "Fat-D&S: Lie, Cheat, and Steal" it featured songs like Takin' The Blame. The LP was soon changed later to "Fat-D&S: Still Breathin'" which was a quote from what Fat-DJ said one night, so it was called Still Breathin' which means more than it sounds.

"Living each day, Well i'm Still Breathin'" is what Fat-DJ said. Still Breathin' was pushed back into October unplanned and unwritten they both kept writing their tracks, with both of the rappers in it. It was only till late November, that the LP finally got some attention, from self-promotion, some trouble between the lyrics, and the content the both had written, the LP was planned to be censored, but still to be an Underground and Unsigned record, the two left the material untouched, apart from the explicit parts that had to be cut from the record. Not as many songs appear on the album than before. There were around 17-20 tracks on the album. The original track listing goes as follows.

Still Breathin' - Album Cover:

http://www.christorodepro.com/Still%20Breathin.jpg


 * 1. Public Service Announcement
 * 2. Takin' The Blame (Fat-DJ)
 * 3. Isolated (Fat-Shadie)
 * 4. Mum and Dad (Fat-DJ)
 * 5. Taylah (Fat-DJ)
 * 6. Street Fighter (Fat-DJ)
 * 7. The Phone Call (skit)
 * 8. Straight Up (Fat-D&S)
 * 9. Final Goodbyes (Fat-Shadie)
 * 10. Baby Gurlz (Fat-D&S)
 * 11. Seaside Nightz (Fat-D&S)
 * 12. Poppy Jim (Fat-DJ)
 * 13. Final Messages (skit)
 * 14. Still Breathin' (Fat-D&S)

Some trouble went into the tracks, a number of tracks such as Mum and Dad, Poppy Jim, and Taylah, were cut from the final version. Fat-DJ didn't want them to be on the actual LP, more of a family oriented CD than the public version of the album. These tracks were later replaced with some of Fat-Shadie's unreleased tracks written between or after Still Breathin' was finished in writing. The following tracks appeared on the second CD's webpage and on the album cover:


 * 1. Ain't In The Mood
 * 2. Saying Goodbye
 * 3. Silver Lining
 * 4. Forgive and Forget
 * 5. Fat-DJ

Only the first two tracks made it to the final version of Still Breathin' when the LP was pressed up and given out, it seemed unfair on Fat-DJ as his songs were gone and only a few were left for him. Inbetween all of this just as Still Breathin' was finished, a solo record from Fat-Shadie appeared on MySpace and their website "Final Goodbye's" the DEMO CD or Second Disc from Still Breathin' had these solo records on there.