New Phat Kat features continue to surface in the press with Carte Blanche’s release approaching. The first is with Real Detroit.
Keith N. Dusenberry of Real Detroit outlines Phat Kat’s average day while in the ‘D’.
When he’s in Detroit, Kat’s daily routine goes like this: “I get up like six or seven every morning, meditate, drink some tea and smoke some herbal … ah … ‘mediation aid’ and open up my blinds and just look at the city. That view, man … that view is crazy.” Kat says of his high-rise vantage point. “Watch a little news, see who got stabbed or who got carjacked or whatever. Make a little breakfast. Play some Tiger Woods (video game). I’m like The Man at Tiger Woods … After the Tiger Woods, I’ve been doing phone interviews … so, I’m like basically on the phone all day.” Kat laughs at this, and I ask what he does once night comes. “At night, man, I’m a Trekkie,” he says, completely serious. “I watch a little Family Guy waiting on Star Trek to come on. Star Trek and Sanford and Son — I’m old school.”
Slightly stunned, I ask if he ever goes to Trekkie conventions. “Nah, nah. You ain’t gonna see me at the convention with one of them tight little shirts on!” Kat laughs, patting his belly. We get to talking about Spock. “Did you know he used to be a singer?” Kat asks. “Me and Dilla used to just sit back and smoke and die laughing over the Spock album.”
SixShot.com also speaks with Phat Kat about the Carte Blanche release and hip hop figures in Detroit.
Phat Kat speaks of major players in the rise of Detroit such as Proof, Eminem, D12 and Dilla with the insight of a sibling. “We all knew Detroit hip-hop had some real lyricists, more than the drug dealing, violent types that everyone assumed Detroit would be full of, and whether it was in 5 or 15 years the songs we were putting down would get their due. Unfortunately for Dilla, he had to be gone for people to come out and say he was the greatest – I’ve always said that,” says Phat Kat. In the wake of Dilla’s passing and with the national spotlight securely focused on Detroit Hip-Hop for more than a minute now, Phat Kat puts it on his shoulders “To give the world a crash course of Detroit Hip-Hop. This is what it is.” Almost everyone associated with Carte Blanche represents the D. Dilla contributes five tracks, but the work of up-and-coming producers Nick Speed, Young RJ, and Black Milk is just as impressive. Other guests include SV’s Elzhi and T3, Truth Hurts, Melanie Rutherford, Fat Ray, Loe Louis and Guilty Simpson. Rather than pursuing cameos and features from overexposed stars, Phat Kat chose instead to work with his peoples from the D, figuring “The people I got on my album is just as hot as people that’s out.”
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