Let us now praise Fabolous!

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It's the FO BO LO US. Perhaps the perfect pop MC? One minute he's got a Too $hort chorus, another minute he's got a line from Jay-Z's handbook (I'm not trying to beat this arrest/I'm trying to put this piece to your chest) and another moment he's jolting Bad Boys chop-funk. Is there anyone as versatile? And has any of his singles been less than magnificent? I mean.. Superwoman? "If feeling you is a crime they better put me under the jail." Anyone have the album yet? Thoughts?

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That song with Nate Dogg is so good I wanna jump out of my seat but I think Fab-o himself is really weak. It's like watching George W. Bush speak - you just know if he veers from the script (20-inch rims, hos, natch) he'll be lost completely. which makes Nate dogg's chorus doubly gratifying. i must admit i haven't heard the other singles.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He sounds like Mase. I like "Can't Deny It" but the Superwoman song is really annoying. And "Fabolous" is the worst name for a rapper ever; it's both gay AND retarted.

― Kris, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not too versed with the hip hop, but isn't it pretty weak to have a guest rapper sing your chorus on your very first single? Not that he didn't pick one of the best...

― Todd Burns, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sure his name is gay but damn it's fun to spell out, and he knows it.

― ethan, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nate Dogg != rapper. Nate Dogg = R&B singer of choice for hooks on west coast joints.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought this question was going to be about Fabulous, the band who released 'Personality Recession', a single I still have somewhere in my collection... oh dear oh dear...

― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Can't Deny It" beats "Superwoman." I think he's actually better on "Superwoman," but the track as a whole can seriously grate.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Take Fabolous (yes, that is fun) out of "Can't Deny It" and track R actually improving

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

he's getting better with age, like they say wine do: check both his verses on "automatic", he even holds his own after those incredible e-40 quadrupletime phonetic workouts! (the track's also got a fairly nice cartoon beat, like the kind eminem used to flow on).

was "real talk" any good (apart from breathe obv)?

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Al broke it down on gov't names, didn't sound too hot.

― deej., Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, here's that: http://governmentnames.blogspot.com/2004/12/real-talk-re-real-talktit-4-tatthe.html

it's got some of the worst production I've heard on a fairly big budget album in a while, and there aren't any really hot songs, but some of the better ones have grown on me: In My Hood, Ghetto, Young & Sexy, Can You Hear Me, Holla At Somebody Real, Do The Damn Thang.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

listening to 'ghetto fabolous' for the first time since uh 2002 or something probably and it's really good. then again i really love high gloss early/mid 2000s nyc rap and this has a pretty great mix of shameless pop songs, straight-up mc tracks & of course ones that are both at the same time. beats are generally awesome and dude was really spitting back then, altho some of the punchlines are corny he's got like a 90% success rate. seems like so many rap albums that are released nowadays try to copy the blueprint that fab used w/ this to go platinum but still be a respectable rap record

― tickle me imo (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 August 2009 07:36 (sixteen years ago)

also features a dude billed as "pain in da ass"...

― tickle me imo (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 August 2009 07:37 (sixteen years ago)

it's the same guy who does the gangster movie intros/skits on the first 4 jay-z albums dude

― some dude, Saturday, 15 August 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

Pain in Da Azz nvr frgt

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:32 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― some dude, Saturday, 15 August 2009 15:47 (sixteen years ago)

Jordan is that the album with "Breathe"? I *loved* that song.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Saturday, 15 August 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

Ghetto Fabolous is album #1 with "Can't Deny It," "Young'n," etc. The one with "Breathe" is album #3, Real Talk.

― some dude, Saturday, 15 August 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

both gay AND retarted

― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 15 August 2009 21:47 (sixteen years ago)

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