Black Soil presents the documentary What’s Up Fatlip including an artist talk by Arjun Chada with Derrick Lemel Stewart (Fatlip) in the series Vinyl Confessions.

 

Derrick Lemel Stewart, known professionally as Fatlip, is a Los Angeles–born hip hop musician. He started his career in the hip hop group The Pharcyde.  In 2005, Fatlip released his solo debut, The Loneliest Punk. It stood as his only solo album until the release of Torpor 17 years later. The album includes his single from 2000, “What’s Up Fatlip?” (which was included in the soundtrack for Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland and the Youth In Revolt soundtrack). The music video for “What’s Up Fatlip?” was directed by Spike Jonze. During the filming process, Jonze compiled interviews with Fatlip and put them together in a documentary also titled “What’s Up, Fatlip?”.

 

This program is a collaboration with HipHopHuis & Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam