Broken Equipment Productions

DUO TAKES AIM AT RAPPERS WITH THEIR YOUTUBE SKITS

No rapper is above ridicule these days, especially when the Internet makes it so easy to rag on your favorite MC. Reveling in that tradition, 19-year-old twin brothers Jordan "Fatt Kidd" and Jared "Twinn" Kennedy have created an online buzz with their animated YouTube rap parodies.

Under the alias Broken Equipment Productions, the New Orleans natives have been pursuing music since 2003. Looking to gain exposure, Fatt and Twinn decided to turn their longtime recreational rap skits into Web cartoons via MySpace and YouTube. Using Photoshop to create visuals, the brothers recorded their own rapper impersonations with ProTools over thier own beats. Debuting in August 2006, their first video- the Jadakiss sketch "Jokes on Jada" -recieved more than 600,000 YouTube hits. From there, the duo released their popluar Dipset series and a spoof of the father/son relationship between Birdman and Lil Wayne ("Makeup Sex"), which earned nearly a million views.

In addition to getting props from Cam and Jeezy, Fatt and Twinn's controversial comedy has drawn interest from MTV and HBO execs. With videos released bimonthly and a cartoon series, A Bad Rap TV, in the works, the high school seniors promise to keep entertaining at rappers' expenses. "We don't pick a certain person to make fun of," insists Fatt. "Whatever topic is hot at the moment, that's who we come at." Watch out- they got fully loaded clips.

XXL Magazine
Issue 98
December 2007