Little T and One Track Mike
Fome is Dape (2001)

review by: Jason Thornberry
Date: 10/2/01

"The rent check is late? They’re turning off utilities? Fuck it! I don’t need electricity or gas to sit alone in the dark and be sad. I need a friend to come and kick me in the ass."

Boasting an actual band, rather than just a DJ and Emcee, Little T (Timothy Sullivan), and his singing, guitar strumming, and bass playing partner Michael Flannery (One Track Mike) cook up a hilarious debut that just feels different. Maybe it’s because they produced it themselves.

"It’s been three weeks and a day since I last brushed my teeth. My breath is so bad that I can’t smell my feet."

New Jersey’s Little T and One Track Mike share management with Outkast, so it seems as though things can only get better. With gallons of humor on tap, and their bitch killa rhymes gathering cobwebs on a notepad behind the couch, it shouldn’t take very long for this crew to turn some heads.

"I got no more tears for your goddamn shoulders. I told ya, to start treating me colder, or I’ll get closer to calamity, and unmotivated stink on the crotch of insanity’s panties."

If the top 50 of today’s commercial hip hop was as great as some of the songs here, like Loose Endin’, Jealousy, Deadman, the title track (pronounced ‘Fo-may is Daw-pay’), and Shaniqua, I would never complain again. Rather than go on supporting Outkast live (which they just did), Dre and Big Boi would be asking to open up for them. Either way it'd be a great show.