23/30: Zaftig-Person Scoop

Fatman Scoop feat. Faith Evans - Be Faithful
Fatman Scoop feat. DJ Kool, EZ Rock - It Takes Two

Fatman Scoop is awesome. A late-night New York radio DJ staple, the scruffy voice of Mr. Scoop has become synonymous with hip hop club music, as he lends his adlibs to many "club remixes" of popular tracks. He screams, he chants, he draws the call-and-response. The most awesome thing is, he doesn't actually make the music or the actual "remixing" which, in this case, is inserting memorable breaks and clips from other songs on top of an instrumental. For instance, "Be Faithful" breaks into moments that harken back to the Beatnuts and Black Sheep, and "It Takes Two" is temporarily morphed into Grandmaster Flash's "The Message." All Scoop does, though, is yell and scream. And then he put all these "remixes" on an album, at least in Japan, because everybody knows those Japs will buy anything.

At the very least, people know Fatman Scoop for his hypeman work on Missy Elliot's "Lose Control," which is also collected on Scoop's appropriately titled "In the Club."

Simply Amazing.