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FAT BOYS ARE BACK This week pioneering hip-hop act the Fat Boys have been profiled on TV-One's documentary series, " Unsung ". Think of it as a version of VH-1 Behind the Music , but exclusively focusing on urban music acts. Check the TV One website at http://www.tvoneonline.com to see the entire episode stream online, as well as to see when it will be aired again. In the meanwhile, this author penned a review of the group's greatest hits compilation, originally released in 1997- an updated hits set can be found on Itunes and Amazon.com. Fat Boys All Meat, No Filler - The Best of the Fat Boys label- Rhino As of 2003, despite there being over 20 years of recorded hip-hop and rap music, the genre still has a relative dearth of archival collections. Part of the problem is most rap acts have not sustained careers beyond one or two albums. Another is that many early rap acts recorded for independent - and now defunct - labels, which make it that much harder to assemble a