On Carte Blanche, the longtime ruler of underground Detroit hip-hop doesn’t flow about the city, he writes it. You can see the J. Dilla produced “Nasty Ain’t It” rising off the 8 Mile concrete. You feel the humid “Vessels” hovering around neighborhood porches in Southwest Detroit. You can hear “Cold Steel” echoing through the abandoned Packard Plant. Carte Blanche wasn’t born of Detroit, it is Detroit.   Full text...

Phat Kat's rhyming style is equally dark and gritty, his natural timbre a grunt-like tone. Additionally impressive is a swift and steady cadence and balanced rhyming scheme attack.  Full text...

Forget what you heard about 8 Mile: This is the real sound of Detroit hip-hop. And while not every track here is a winner, there is more than enough evidence to prove that Phat Kat is an emcee worth watching.  Full text...

Tales from the Phat Side.  Full text...