There is relatively little information about Fallacy on the internet, however, he self-professes that he was “born in the 80s”, meaning that when he appeared alongside Blak Twang on “Homegrown” in 1997, he was no older than 17 years of age – possibly younger. The situation was similar for 1999’s “Da Struggle”, alongside Cane, Skinnyman & Anthony Campbell.
I was the early 2000s, though, by the time Fallacy began to put out a slew of guest appearances and underground cuts, finally cumulating in the 2003 stellar album Blackmarket Boy, to rave critical reviews, yet almost zero national fanfare, aside from the moderate hit single “Big N Bashy”, with the late Tubby-T:
Slick, mature, and unbelievably polished (thanks to production largely handled by Fusion), Blackmarket Boy is a musical onslaught from beginning to end, and is in my opinion one of the finer UK hip-hop/grime releases of the past decade.
Nowadays, Blackmarket Boy is out of print, and shows no sign of revival, yet you can cop it here:
Skinnyman – Council Estate of Mind (2004) « Out of Print Hip-Hop said,
July 24, 2011 @ 3:29 pm
[...] and Skinnyman had graduated to mixtape cuts, appearing on “Da Struggle”, alongside the likes of Fallacy, a track lifted from a low-budget DJ Disorda Suspect Packages [...]