Deep Album Cuts Vol. 193: Fabolous
Fabolous is going against Jadakiss on a Verzuz battle on Instagram on Monday, I looked back at Jadakiss's catalog yesterday so now I'm gonna get into Fab's.
Fabolous deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Right Now & Later On
Fabolous deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Right Now & Later On
2. If They Want It
3. One Day
4. Ma' Be Easy
5. Sickalicious (featuring Missy Elliott)
6. Damn
7. My Life (featuring Mary J. Blige)
8. Now Ride
9. Po Po (featuring Nate Dogg and Paul Cain)
10. Holla At Somebody Real (featuring Lil Mo)
11. Gangsta
12. This Is Family (featuring Ransom, Freck Billionaire, Red Cafe, Joe Budden and Paul Cain)
13. Real Playa Like (featuring Lloyd)
14. Brooklyn (featuring Jay-Z and Uncle Murda)
15. Lullaby
16. Body Bag Remix (featuring Cam'ron and Vado)
17. We Good (featuring Rich Homie Quan)
18. Theme Music (with Jadakiss and Swizz Beatz)
19. Time (featuring Roddy Ricch)
Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 from Ghetto Fabolous (2001)
Tracks 5, 6 and 7 from Street Dreams (2003)
Track 8 from More Street Dreams, Pt. 2: The Mixtape (2003)
Tracks 9, 10 and 11 from Real Talk (2004)
Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 from Ghetto Fabolous (2001)
Tracks 5, 6 and 7 from Street Dreams (2003)
Track 8 from More Street Dreams, Pt. 2: The Mixtape (2003)
Tracks 9, 10 and 11 from Real Talk (2004)
Tracks 12, 13 and 14 from From Nothin' To Somethin' (2007)
Track 15 from Loso's Way (2009)
Track 16 from There Is No Competition 2: The Grieving Music EP (2010)
Track 17 from The Young OG Project (2014)
Track 18 from Friday On Elm Street with Jadakiss (2017)Track 16 from There Is No Competition 2: The Grieving Music EP (2010)
Track 17 from The Young OG Project (2014)
Track 19 from Summertime Shootout 3: Coldest Summer Ever (2019)
I've always liked Fab's punchlines and thought he's been a little underestimated, particularly his early stuff. So I appreciated Ghetto Faboulous recently getting featured in Pitchfork's Sunday review, with Al Pierre giving Fab's early career a serious and detailed look without overrating his solid but not classic debut. It's a hit-and-miss album with some dated production -- even the Just Blaze track, "Ma' Be Easy," is a keyboard beat that sounds nothing like his work on The Blueprint, released the same day.
Like Jadakiss, Fabolous released his first solo album in 2001, had a couple platinum releases, and then remained ever present with singles and features. Fab was definitely a bigger crossover star at his peak, but listening to their catalogs back to back definitely confirmed that Jada has the better catalog. And Fabolous has been in the news in recent years for some ugly domestic violence stuff, so I'm definitely rooting for Jada in the Verzuz competition.
I always really dug the Timbaland track that got tagged at the end of the "Young'n" video, "Right Now & Later On." Likewise, "Damn" always sounded good in the "Can't Let You Go" video. I was always disappointed by Real Talk because "Breathe" set my expectations for the album higher, but a few tracks have aged well. One thing I liked about Fabolous's early albums is that the CD booklet had a lyric sheet, there's never really been a lot of hip hop albums that come with a lyric sheet, it was kind of refreshing and showed how much he cared about his bars.
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