Baby Huey

One cool thing about trading turfs is discovering local legends.

Talking about Baby Huey.

Not the St. Louis rapper much less fitted to the name, but the 350 pound six foot one Chris Farley of soul music,

James “Baby Huey” Ramey.

James Ramey was probably the fattest heroine addict ever posthumously credited as a father of Hip Hop. He was an entertainer so powerful that after his death at 26, his band could not go on, even with a young Chaka Khan at the mike.

For the rest, somebody already said it better here.

Check out these tunes, especially Baby Huey’s great take of Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come.

Songs
A Change Is Gonna Come
Mighty Mighty
Just Being Careful

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