Ten Things We Learned From Fabolous's Interview With The Breakfast Club
Rapper talks Young OG album, Diddy and Drake and more.
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A Fabolous Chat With The Breakfast Club - Fabolous checked in with The Breakfast Club this week and discussed his upcoming album, Young OG, Diddy and Drake's drama and more. Read on and see what he revealed to Charlamagne, Envy and and Angela Yee.— Michael Harris (@IceBlueVa)(Photo: Power 105.1 The Breakfast Club via Youtube)
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Mediator - The Breakfast Club knew that Fab was cool with both Puff and Drizzy and decided to probe him for a little information on the rift last week. The Young OG chalked it up to an age thing. “Both of those guys are friends of mine, Fab said, "but I still don’t know all the information, though ... It’s a generation gap too so I guess there’s little respect issues and where the Diddy and Drake line is, but I don’t know how far their relationship goes. There’s issues that be happening between the generations where you feel that there’s a little respect that should be happening.”(Photo: Prince Williams/FilmMagic)
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Santa Delivers Young OG - F-A-B-O-L-O-U-S will be dropping his next project,Young OG, on Christmas day. Speaking of the new LP's concept, he said, “I was working on an album and then these flips started coming from everywhere that were '90s influenced or inspired… and it became so many of them that it almost became a little project and that’s where the Young OG project came from.”Fab also revealed that he collaborated with Chris Brown and re-did Nas and The Bravehearts’ 2003 hit “Oochie Wally.” (Photo: Jerritt Clark)
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Throwing Up the Roc - Fabolous made the announcement that he joined Jay Z’s team in December and that Roc Nation was now managing him. He revealed, “I signed with Roc Nation because I thought they could help me build my brand. I’ve been doing what I’ve been doing for a long time, so I don’t think they are going to step forward and make me someone that I’m not, but I think they do handle their business well, building brands."(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
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Clearance Block - One partcular song that's been talked about but didn't make the Young OG album was an all-star collaboration. Fab explained, “There was a song with me, Nicki and Trey Songz. We had some clearance issues come from out of nowhere. After you record the song and do the work, it becomes a whole other job just trying to get songs cleared. I understand it’s their work and they want to get paid for it but they shouldn’t just withhold or stop you from [using the music]. It’s really hurtful too after you’ve made a song and put all this work and they come back and say 'no.'”(Photos from Left: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images, Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for MTV, Mireya Acierto/BET/Getty Images for BET)
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"King of New York" - Fab considers himself “a” King of New York but feels the fighting for the crown caused NY to lose it’s top spot. The Brooklyn MC expressed, “It’s like a barbershop conversation where everyone sits around and says who's the king. ... Someone would say Jay, Nas, Diddy or Biggie or whoever, but all those guys were kings within theirself and just happen to be from N.Y. So I feel like you can be 'a' king of New York without having to make the argument of being 'the' king of New York.” (Photo: Mr. Blue/WENN.com)
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Jackin' for Beats - Brooklyn’s finest revealed that he’s been in a few discrepancies over beats in the past as well when artists end up with the same track from a producer. Fabolous stated, “It happened with me on a few songs, even one of my biggest hits. 'Make Me Better' was given to Eve and she had it for an album cut and we had to go sit with her, like begging, ‘Please, can you give us this song. This is a hit single for me.’ We had dinner wither her, wined and dined her and she gave it up.”(Photos from left: John Ricard / BET, John Phillips/Getty Images)
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Crew Love - The Breakfast Club also probed Fab on his allegiance to DJ Clue and Desert Storm and he noted that his choice to ride with Desert Storm was about original loyalty. “Me and Clue have had arguments and disagreements. That’s part of friendship," he said. Later he added, "When we first got signed, we were at Interscope and I guess they fired Clue and they asked me did I want to stay or leave with Clue and Desert Storm. I chose to leave and go with Desert Storm because that’s who brought me in there. Even though it was hard to walk away from a record deal that you just got, I stuck with my guns and rode with loyalty.”(Photo: Jerritt Clark/Getty Images)
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Brothers Gonna Work It Out - Fabolous and Ray J got into a little scuffle back in 2011 that escalated when Brandy’s little brother threatened to send the "booty goons" for the Brooklyn MC. Tensions have long cooled and Fab explained their encounters since.“I’ve seen Ray J a few times," he said, "and at first it was more awkward because people were waiting around to see if something was going to pop off and I even had to tell them, ‘No, I’m not looking for you,’ because it would just be a tension. They were trying to have a sit-down, Farrakhan type of meeting about it but I was like we don’t need to do that. We not having a sit-down about that, it’s not that serious. We don’t need to get Russell Simmons and all that involved.” (Photos from left: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images, Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images)
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Hollywood Dreams Deferred - Fabolous reenacted scenes from The King of New York for his latest video “Lituation” but he put a pause on the Hollywood button as he revealed, “I don’t think I’m the best actor. I like putting the things together and I will star in it because it’s my thing but I think if I wanted to become a full-fledged actor, I would need some help. Now my brother, Paul Caine, he’s an actor. He’s low key really an actor and I think he should go to Hollywood and pursue that.”(Photo: JCalderon / Splash News)