MTV MIXTAPE DAILY 12/10/09: Fabolous To Drop New Mixtape On Christmas Day

December 10th, 2009 | By Rick From Chicago

Fabolous To Drop New

Mixtape On Christmas Day

Fab’s also ‘looking to come next summer’ with a new official album, in Mixtape Daily.

MUSIC VIDEO: Fabolous ft. Kobe – Imma Do It

November 20th, 2009 | By Rick From Chicago

INDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Fabolous (by DJ Glew)

October 7th, 2009 | By DJ Glew

In this month’s latest exclusive Industry Interview feature for THE3XGP.COM, DJ Glew spoke to Brooklyn rapper Fabolous! Earlier this past summer, Faboloso released his fifth studio LP, Loso’s Way – his most compete album to date.  DJ Glew talked to Fab about making MTV ’s 2009 Hottest MC’s In The Game list, addressing his recent Twitter comments on 50 Cent, working with Ne-Yo on a joint album and much more! Special shouts go out to Jody ‘Cousin’ Laraya and Kevin Ash at Universal Music Canada.

Fabolous

DJ GLEW: How do you feel about placing #8 on MTV’s Hottest MC’s of 2009 list?

FABOLOUS: I’m receptive and I definitely feel like it’s a cool thing.  I really think a lot of people look at the list and it’s a topic of discussion.  There are a lot of mixed reviews about it and talk about some MC’s that shouldn’t make the list and some that should be higher.  I look at it in a accepted way that I even made the list in their eyes and it’s cool.  But at the same time you may ask somebody else and they may say I deserved to be higher on the list.  Before this I wasn’t even on the list and I felt I should’ve been.  So I’m accepting of it and thankful of MTV for including me on the list.

DJ GLEW: What has been your favourite Twitter trending topic?

FABOLOUS: Well the funniest one I made was either #lilmamais or #sorrybowow.

DJ GLEW: Give me an example of the Bow Wow one. Finish this Tweet: #sorrybowwow.

FABOLOUS: #sorrybowwow you can’t retire because your album sold 18,000 records in your first week.  Take your brick like a man.  That was the first one I put out there with him. [laughs]

Fabolous was ranked MTV’s 8th Hottest MC In The Game for 2009

DJ GLEW: You also have the Yung Berg’s head one.  Finish this Tweet: #yungbergshead.

FABOLOUS: Oh ya. Yung Berg. [laughs] Yung Berg’s head is a Hip-Hop pinata, you keep hitting it until the Transformer pops out. [laughs]

DJ GLEW: What is a Twitter funeral? And what other Twitter terms have you invented?

FABOLOUS: A Twitter funeral is when you kill somebody via Twitter and you have to lay their Twitter account to rest.  Usually the person doesn’t comply with it but the people know when you choke them so you have them a Twitter funeral.  When you say T.I.P. that means Twitter In Peace that’s after you kill somebody and you just want to send your condolences.

DJ GLEW: How do you feel about the way Loso’s Way has been received?

FABOLOUS: I feel it has been received well.  A lot of people have looked at it and have sort of broken it and seen me in a different light.  I took a concept and gracefully made it work with what I wanted to say.  But also made good music and also touched on the topic from “Carlito’s Way“.  It got to be the number one record in the country on it’s first week.  That was a great thing to me because at first it was leaked two and a half weeks before it was suppose to drop.  So I was skeptical and not even sure if people would receive it as well or go out and still go get it because of how easy it was to grab a bootleg of it.  It was really anticipated and people wanted to give it a hear.  It’s hard when you want to hear something and really sit back and have to wait two weeks for the real one instead of just downloading it.

DJ GLEW: You have said that you want to work with Eminem.  What type of song would the two of you record?

FABOLOUS: I have no idea I would actually like him to produce it and lead and then I would just follow.  I think Eminem’s topics are a little different than mine in certain senses so I would really like him to come up with the scenario or topic or subject matter that he wants to take it in and I would speak from my lane and he can speak from his lane.

DJ GLEW: On Twitter you said: “Its interesting to c 50 Cent unite wit NY artists when he’s 1 of the reasons NY hip hop became so isolated & crumbled”.  Can you further comment on this Tweet?

FABOLOUS: I think that if you were to ask 50 a couple years ago if you were to do a show with those people he would have said no.  It was interesting to me.  I actually was invited to do the show as well but I had a prior show so I couldn’t make it.  He had these hopes up and he had really isolated himself with G-Unit when he first came out.  He didn’t mix well with other artists and rappers unless it was Eminem, Dr. Dre, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, and whoever was affiliated with him.  He use to offer if you wanted to come be with him then you can come be with him and get money but other than that he wouldn’t rock with you.  He hasn’t had many collaborations other than on his songs and this is why I found it interesting and out of no where they put together this show with New York rappers and Hip Hop which is great. But it’s kind of this destroy and rebuild situation.

DJ GLEW: Do you think it’s because of the lack of interest people are showing him now?  Do you think he’s trying to do the DJ Khaled and unity thing?

FABOLOUS: I don’t really think he’s trying to do that. I don’t really know what’s going on in 50’s head of why he actually did it.  But I put it out there for a topic of discussion and people had different perspectives on it.  Some people said it might have been another one of his marketing things or publicity stunts.  Other people said maybe he’s growing up and done beefing with certain people.  I just put it out there for a topic of discussion and I wasn’t taking shots at him.  I think certain people misunderstood in blogs and emails.  Blogs will sort of take it and twist it in another way.  But what I really did was put it out there like how a talk show would sensationalize or put shock value to it.  But it would be something that would have been a conversation in the barbershop.  But that’s what Twitter is, it’s like a big humongous barbershop where everyone puts in what they think.   So that’s what I did when I woke up this morning and I saw something online about it.   It just happened this weekend so I usually just speak about things that are relevant at the time.

DJ GLEW: Who is your favorite R&B artist to collaborate with?

FABOLOUS: Well all-time I would have to say Lil’ Mo.  We have such a great chemistry, she’s also a fun person, cool to work with, and down to earth.  Recently, me and Ne-Yo work pretty well and he’s also a good guy.  There’s also Ryan Leslie because he’s a genius musically.  I pretty much like working with a few people so you can have me going on and on but that’s just a rough bunch.

Fabolous ft. Keri Hilson – Everything, Everyday, Everywhere (2009)

DJ GLEW: What songs have you recorded with Ne-Yo for your joint album? And when’s that project coming out?

FABOLOUS: Actually we’re just putting songs together and trying to compliment the music for it.  We reached out to Ryan Leslie to tie into like a co-executive producer of the project.  We’re trying to put it together but it’s probably not going to come this year maybe like a next year thing.  We’re just trying to bring that Hip-Hop and R&B marriage back and people haven’t done it on a biggest scale.  Some of the biggest songs or radio songs are generated through the marriage of Hip-Hop and R&B.

DJ GLEW: What was the last thing you threw in the bag?

FABOLOUS: Yesterday I went to Barney’s and did a little shopping because there’s a Hip-Hop awards show (2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards) coming up and also there’s a couple videos to do.   I just did a little shopping and kept my eye to what’s out there.  I threw it in the bag but not too much.  I also bought a Louis Vuitton book bag because I thought it was a cool thing.

DJ GLEW: Do you think over sized and overpriced throwback jerseys will ever make a comeback?

FABOLOUS: [laughs] Over sized not really.  Overpriced I don’t know about jerseys.  It’s hard for me to see jerseys coming back because it’s past it’s time and era.  I looked at some of my jerseys before and tried them on and I couldn’t believe I wore them that big but I never use to pay for them and stuff like that.  I think it had it’s time and era but I think it’s over.  I don’t know anything that comes out 20 years ago and comes back so soon.  I think it might be a little time before you see a jersey on somebodies back.

Fabolous ft. The-Dream – Throw It In The Bag (2009)

MUSIC: Fabolous Is MTV’s #8 Hottest MC In The Game!

September 30th, 2009 | By Rick From Chicago

Loso’s Way brings multifaceted

MC to a new career peak.

The 2009 Hottest MCs in the Game rollout is on! As in 2007 and 2008, the list, determined by the MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust, is based on an MC’s achievements right now, rather than an entire career. The criteria is based on a combination of rhyme skill, flow and how those things are implemented musically as the main factors. The Brain Trust also considers buzz, impact, commercial success — sales, airplay, business ventures, Web presence, endorsements and helping to spawn other artists’ careers — and the intangible, impact: Can an artist not only contribute to the rap game but influence cultural shifts? Are they trendsetters? All of these factors — and the results of our audience poll, which closed last week and gets a vote at the Roundtable during the Brain Trust’s debate — contribute to deciding who is the Hottest MC in the Game. We’ll be announcing an MC’s rank every day this week, with the full list revealed on Sunday at 10 p.m. during “P. Diddy’s Starmaker”!

Flame Thrower: Fabolous

2009 Rank: 8

Previous Rankings: 2007 (not ranked); 2008 (not ranked)

Why He’s Hot: Fabolous started his Loso’s Way campaign by telling the world that it was “his time,” and the boy from Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood lived up to his claim. Loso’s Way — a concept project inspired in part by the gangster film “Carlito’s Way” — became his first #1 LP on the Billboard albums chart, selling nearly 99,000 units in its first week of release. All year, we’ve been hearing “It’s Loso, in case you didn’t know, so …” for a reason: Fab never runs out of ammo with his tireless punch lines and swag!

Right out the gate, he had big radio and club records with “Throw It in the Bag” (and its sweltering remix, “Everything, Everywhere, Everyday”) and his latest, “Money Goes, Honey Stay” (He had the pull to not just get the beat and chorus for the record from Jay-Z, but he also scored a rare Hov cameo in the video). The rest of the album is bone-crunching: his unprecedented candor on “Stay,” the playful pathos of “Last Time” and the outright audacity on the “The Way (Intro).” He didn’t just play on his home field, either: Loso also came with numerous but diverse guest appearances alongside Rick Ross, The-Dream, Red Cafe, Ryan Leslie, Slim from 112, Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo and Jamie Foxx.

Like a lot of our other Hottest MCs, Fab has utilized the Web — but not just to give insight on what’s going on with his career, but he’s also introduced his followers to Fabolous the comedian. He’s a one-man Def Comedy Jam, joking on everyone from Bow Wow and T-Pain to Flo Rida. A testament to Loso’s popularity, when he speaks on topics on his Twitter page (such as Lil Mama’s VMA stage-crash), they become trending topics.

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Co-Signer: Ludacris: “He’s doing his thing. He’s extremely consistent with it. He does what he does and he does it really good. He knows how to make songs. It’s a lot of rappers that just rap; he’s one of those individuals that can rap good and, of course, the man knows how to make good songs. You put them together, it’s complete. Shout out to Fab, man. Congratulations to that man! My hat goes off to him.”

Ignitable Incitement: “You definitely want recognition for what you do,” Fab told MTV News on Thursday. “At the same time, even when I’m not on the list or get overlooked for certain things, I use that as motivation to come back until I’ve proven that, without a doubt, there’s no way I shouldn’t be on that list. A couple of times I felt that I was overlooked for different things. In front of you guys, I play it cool. At home, I break a couple mirrors and stuff! But everyone loves recognition for what you do. Maybe that’s what you do it for, but you love when people respect it; you make music, it’s an art form but the way it’s received is partially what you do it for. When I’m in the studio creating music, that creation is one process that I love. Then after you create it, you go out there and you wanna see how people receive this creation.”

Blistering Ballistics: “These b—hes talk sh– out the same mouth they kiss you/ These n—as kiss ass with the same mouth that dis you/ Eww! You n—as disgust me/ And they ain’t talkin’ ’bout sh– unless they discuss me/ Let’s talk about how I’m killin’ everything I touches/ Or how I walked in this game with no crutches/ No Diddy, no Dupri, no Dr. Dre/ No Cash Money from Baby and no Rocs from Jay/ And I’m still here!” (from “The Way (Intro)”)

Hot Streak:
Albums:
Loso’s Way

Selected Mixtapes:
N/A

Singles: “Throw It in the Bag” (featuring The-Dream), “Everything, Everywhere, Everyday” (featuring Ryan Leslie and Keri Hilson), “Money Goes, Honey Stay” (featuring Jay-Z), “It’s My Time” (featuring Jeremih)

Street Bangers:
“Throw It in the Bag” remix, (featuring Drake), “Feel Like I’m Back”

Key Guest Appearances: Red Café’s “Hottest in the Hood” remix, Lil Cease’s “Talk Go Through Us” (also featuring Busta Rhymes), Ne-Yo’s “She’s Got Her Own” (also featuring Jamie Foxx), Slim’s “Good Lovin’ ” (also featuring Ryan Leslie), Ryan Leslie’s “Addiction” (also featuring Cassie), Lil Wayne’s “You Ain’t Got Nothin’ ” (also featuring Juelz Santana)

Meteoric Metrics (as of September 29)
Twitter Followers: 283,521
MySpace Friends: 485,231
Facebook Fans: 30,146
Loso’s Way’s first-week album sales: Nearly 99,000 copies; #1 debut

Business Ventures: Endorsement deal with Reebok Classic sneakers; owner of Rich Yung Clothing Line

Tours: Several dates opening for Jay-Z in spring/summer 2009

Monumental Moment: Loso’s Way hitting #1 on the Billboard albums chart

What do you think of Fabolous’ placement on the Hottest MCs in the Game list? Upload your comments, reactions, arguments and/or your own list to YourMTV.com — the best videos could be on TV!

MTV News will be unveiling the Hottest MCs in the Game all week! We’ll be announcing an MC’s rank every day this week, with the full list revealed on Sunday at 10 p.m. during “P. Diddy’s Starmaker”!

[Credit: MTV News]

MUSIC VIDEO: Fabolous ft. Jay-Z – When The Money Goes-RMX

August 17th, 2009 | By Rick From Chicago

TELEVISION: Fabolous talks to Chlesea Lately about having the #1 album in country with Loso’s Way (08/10)

August 11th, 2009 | By Rick From Chicago

If you famous…you gotta be on Chelsea Lately!

VIDEO CLIP: Fabolous kicks it with Angela Yee, talks Loso’s Way

August 7th, 2009 | By Rick From Chicago

Angela Yee is the bomb! Fabolous just dropped the best album of his career. Go get it!

TELEVISION: Fabolous talks to Alexa Chung (08/05)

August 5th, 2009 | By Rick From Chicago

Faboloso’s got the #1 album in the country today.