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Artist: Heavy D & The Boyz Album: Living Large Record Label: MCA Song: The Overweight Lovers In. .

Heavy D & the Boyz' debut album, Living Large, finds the group still in a formative stage, but they're already engaging enough to make the record entertaining, if nothing earth-shattering. This being 1987, the production is spare and heavy on the beatbox, with some samples of James Brown and other well-known vintage soul records. As an MC, Heavy D strongly favors swingbeat rhythms at this stage (even saying so at the start of "Here We Go"), and he hasn't yet developed the smooth, resonant delivery that would make his most complex rhymes sound deceptively easy.

Eddie F. Written-By, Performer – Heavy D. Notes. Mastered at Frankford/Wayne, NY. Engineered at Chung King Recording Studio, NY & Powerplay. Design for Prince Pauper Design.

Heavy D & The Boyz may be enshrined in the collective pop cultural consciousness as the author of light-weight crossover hits like Now That We Found Love and Black Coffee, but his best work, which can be found on his classic 1987 debut, Livin’ Large, stays close to the street corner bred, New York sound that would be perfected by contemporaries like The. Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, and Pete Rock and .

Dwight Arrington Myers (May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011), better known as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-born American rapper, record producer, singer, actor. Myers was the former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a hip hop group which included dancers/background vocalists G-Whiz (Glen Parrish), "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), and Eddie F (born Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s.

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Exclusive discount for Prime members. Sample this album Artist (Sample). I was just only two years old in late October 1987 when this album came out during the earliest stages of Golden Age Hip-Hop era. The Heavster was really just 'living large as an underrated lyricist who can really both rapping and dancing. Heavy was the man in my times when I was just a little boy listening to Hip-hop that has more groovy but fun type of vibe that each person was on like Rakim, . Cool J, and KRS-One as the examples.

Is Living Large the best album by Heavy D And The Boyz? BestEverAlbums. com brings together thousands of 'greatest ever album' charts and calculates an overall ranking. This album At A Glance. Living Large by Heavy D And The Boyz (1987) Overall rank: 55,311th. Accolades: Top albums of 1987 ( 728th ). Top albums of the 1980s ( 7,131st ). Best albums of all time ( 55,311th ).