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🌙 COLDPLAY ANNOUNCE MOON MUSIC OUT OCTOBER 4TH 🎵
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    Beats Go Frying

    Long before the sizzle and scent of fried bacon entered the act, Bacon Shoe was a one-man enterprise: a rapper with a keyboard, a crock of beats and an errant sense of locale.

     

    “The first live show I ever did was at a (restaurant) in Lee’s Summit,” says Lethal D, the sole founder of the rap/farce troupe he calls Bacon Shoe. “I got kicked out because of the lyrics. There were kids eating with their moms and dads, and about five songs in, the owner got all (ticked) off and kicked me out.

    “I was getting no respect. … Kids ruin everything.”

     

    And things tended to go awry. One night, Toine says, he got too “explosive” and knocked his loaded George Foreman grill off the table, breaking it. Despite the occasional slapstick moment, Toine became better known for busting moves than for frying bacon. “Girls go crazy over Toine,” Lethal says. “Most of the audience doesn’t even look at me when I’m up there.”

     

    Enduring aromas aside, word is supposedly out about Ruggles’ grill skills. He is threatening to move on to bigger bands with better small appliances. “I might be cooking bacon for Coldplay next year,” he says.

     

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