Fabolous - Young OG Project - Dec 25- NEW TRACK BALL DROP

Magic1978 said:
Fab isn't lame at all and Street Fam definitely isn't.

His social media shoed he has a personality that he doesn't display in his music. Even though he fell back after Ray J caught feelings.

Now the Young OG gimmick he's doing is corny, but Fab and Paul are official. There's a reason Fab doesn't get involved in all the beef stuff all these other rappers do.
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The all 90's everything gimmick has been done to death and is beyond lame.  The fact that he thinks it is cool adds to his lameness. 

This dude cares more about his instagram fits and will jump on whatever trend is popping at the moment.  But I guess he knows where the people who are actually gonna like his music spend most of their time at. 
 
Rate this album for me 1-10 might support him since I've always been a fan of his mixtapes .
 
 
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Maximus Meridius said:
This was only a year ago so dude still has it.



If only the Soul Tapes were albums :smh:


I know it would be hell clearing those samples.
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Please someone let me know what's the difference between a mixtape with 95% original beats & a concept & a regular album.

Fab has cLassic Projects, are they retail No, did these have ridiculous verses, did they have classic tracks.... Yes so what the hell does it matter if it wasn't "Officially" released.

Same Goes for many more, MM2 in Buddens case is better piece of work than most Mc's best album yet we say he doesn't have a classic. It's really unfair to an Artist to not give them credit for a mixtape.
 
This **** sold over 70K first week. Wow, I thought this **** would be like 10-15 because of it being complete trash and only digital.
 
Ballerific703 said:
This **** sold over 70K first week. Wow, I thought this **** would be like 10-15 because of it being complete trash and only digital.
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Would of been closer towards 15 rather than 70 in any other month.
That holiday season push is real.

The 2nd week sales say it all... itll get even worse now that X-mas is over.
 
Braj Mahal said:
The all 90's everything gimmick has been done to death and is beyond lame.  The fact that he thinks it is cool adds to his lameness. 

This dude cares more about his instagram fits and will jump on whatever trend is popping at the moment.  But I guess he knows where the people who are actually gonna like his music spend most of their time at. 
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yea I agree man FAB lookin like a 20 something IG addicted dude makin himself look like a clown & it's showing in his twitter punch line bars....
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He calls himself an OG, and I guess you could say he is.  I mean hes been in the rap game for what, almost 15 years now.

For me he cemented himself in the game, so I don't understand why he feels the need to cater to or impress these little teeny bobbers.

But like I said, maybe he knows these are the people supporting his music so he goes out of his way to please them.
 
He knows hes not jay or ye so he needs the gram for promotion but at the same time hes not trying to end up like 50,the lox, nas etc & have to big of a ego to adapt to the new era and end up irrelevant

So i guess making young music, following the trends & only associating with the young rappers will keep him relevant
 
It's more about having some sort of presence on social media.

Judging someone based on their presence on social media is funny to me.

Who is cool on social media? If you give to much of yourself you look like Wale, Chris Brown or Budden, and people are dissing you. if you give nothing like Beyonce or Nicki Minaj it looks obvious that you aren't doing it. The majority of people could care less. The artist uses it as a presence and to announce their projects. You have people with a million followers who can't even get 100,000 to buy their album.

You don't understand why Fab does the music he does?

Fab's first album came out in 2001
Ja Rule's first album came out in 1999

Ja Rule hasn't been relevant in a decade.
 
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Offset POW CLOW said:
He knows hes not jay or ye so he needs the gram for promotion but at the same time hes not trying to end up like 50,the lox, nas etc & have to big of a ego to adapt to the new era and end up irrelevant

So i guess making young music, following the trends & only associating with the young rappers will keep him relevant
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This is true, and you make a great point.  That's what I was getting at, he knows where the people are at that are gonna keep him relevant. 

Its not so much about using social media to connect with the youth, its the way he does it.  At this point in his career, he should be the one creating the trends, not following them. 

I feel you about him not being Jay, but that's the other issue, he could have been Jay. 

The music speaks for itself though and its just not good.  If he made good music, he wouldn't need to show out for the gram.  And people wouldn't be talking about how corny he is. 
 
Fab could never have been Jay, because he's not as good a rapper. Plus he never spoke to people. Fab always came off as generic. After 15 years do you know much about Fab? Fab always had songs for women, but wasn't as corny as Ja. That was his lane. That's his lane now. That's why he can do the Trey, R Les or Chris Brown song. I wouldn't say he's following trends at all. He's doing what he always does.
 
Magic1978 said:
It's more about having some sort of presence on social media.

Judging someone based on their presence on social media is funny to me.

Who is cool on social media?

You don't understand why Fab does the music he does?

Fab's first album came out in 2001
Ja Rule's first album came out in 1999

Ja Rule hasn't been relevant in a decade.
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I feel what you are saying.  Social media itself is lame, and frankly we are all victims to the lameness.

Fab just comes off as a try hard.  Look at guys like 50, Action Bronson, Evidence, and Cam'ron.  We get a glimpse of their personality outside of the music through their social media accounts.  None of them seem to take themselves too serious, just dudes who enjoy what they do and having fun with it. 

And like I said, its not about the social media thing.  Fab just doesn't make good music.  If he made good music, I could look past this. 

And again, yes Fab makes pop music for the little teeny bobbers cause they are the only ones supporting him.  Which is exactly why Ja is no longer relevant. 
 
That's the thing though, Fab may not have been as good as rapper, but he had everything set up perfectly to be in a similar place as Jay.

He just chose a different lane.  I personally believe he had enough talent to be mentioned among the Hip hop greats.  He just never delivered.
 
Magic1978 said:
Fab could never have been Jay, because he's not as good a rapper. Plus he never spoke to people. Fab always came off as generic. After 15 years do you know much about Fab? Fab always had songs for women, but wasn't as corny as Ja. That was his lane. That's his lane now. That's why he can do the Trey, R Les or Chris Brown song. I wouldn't say he's following trends at all. He's doing what he always does.
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"When i feel like it" wasnt following the south trend?

He took the migos whole flow on that song with quan
 
Fab was one of the first NY rappers to jump on the south, along with Fat Joe.  He always followed trends, in and outside of music. 

Dude was never original.  Jay did American Gangster so fab went and did Loso's Way.
 
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"When i feel like it" wasnt following the south trend?

He took the migos whole flow on that song with quan
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Because someone does a flow according to a beat or what's hot? I don't consider that following the south trend. Especially when he was always working with down south artist. Him, Busta and Fat Joe can do anything they want at this point, because that's always what they did. That's experimenting with a song, hoping it sticks. It doesn't sound unnatural for Fab to do it.

That's why I said he never had an identity, because he always did some of everything. That's one reason I never liked any of his albums, they had no cohesion. He'd have fifteen songs, with fifteen different producers.
 
Braj Mahal said:
Fab was one of the first NY rappers to jump on the south, along with Fat Joe.  He always followed trends, in and outside of music. 

Dude was never original.  Jay did American Gangster so fab went and did Loso's Way.
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Fab was pretty original his first few years. He had the potential to be one of the greats. Fab can rap his *** off. He been making music for broads though for a while and he's getting lost in it.

And Loso's Way wasn't copying AG. He has been calling himself Loso for years. Come on son.
 
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Ballerific703 said:
Fab was pretty original his first few years. He had the potential to be one of the greats. Fab can rap his *** off. He been making music for broads though for a while and he's getting lost in it.

And Loso's Way wasn't copying AG. He has been calling himself Loso for years. Come on son.
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It had nothing to do with him calling himself Loso, son. Jay put out AG to coincide with the movie. So fab followed the trend with Loso's way. He even said the idea was inspired by AG. It wasn't a straight jack, but it wasn't exactly original.

And yes, Fabs early stuff is cool. After Ghetto Fabolous came out I thought Fab was on to something. He never really matured into anything great, as far as the type of music he makes goes.
 
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