Lets Talk About How "Ghetto Fabolous" Stood Toe-To-Toe With The Blueprint

[Still Benefited]

Im very aware of the nature of this thread, yet I will never understand the romanticization some folk have with fukkin Fab and Mase. They make the most cliche, uninspired, forgettable music, and yet they are revered. They have a handful of OKAY singles, no good albums and would sell their soul for a dollar. Is it because, they look up to how they speak softly, act like theyre homosexuals and would likely not bust a grape?

We actin like Fab ain't got street cred at all now?he got more ties then average to rap like he rap....consistently puts out hits,consistently gives us dope mixtapes....Fab just one of those rappers who nikkas made it up in they mind they hate for no reason....stop actin like dude is revered where people callin em top 10 all time....I'm simply sayin best punchline rapper....and a lot of people as u can see don't agree with that(nikkas in denial)....both are underated....if they had better deliverys and less soft sounding voices that didn't sound like 16 yr olds nikkas would be on they dikk...Murder Mase potentially had it in em to be better than Biggie by a wide margin...if diddy hadn't got infatuated with the shiny suit era,he actually had a nice delivery at one time til he started rappin retarded.....Fab just wuznt blessed with the strong delivery at all...but he slick and be shyttin on nikkas,if you not secure in bein broke sumtimes and fukin extra regular bytches on the regular,you probaly won't like Fab...he talk to slick for nikkas wit low self esteem

 

[Tetris v2.0]

We actin like Fab ain't got street cred at all now?he got more ties then average to rap like he rap....consistently puts out hits,consistently gives us dope mixtapes....Fab just one of those rappers who nikkas made it up in they mind they hate for no reason....stop actin like dude is revered where people callin em top 10 all time....I'm simply sayin best punchline rapper....and a lot of people as u can see don't agree with that(nikkas in denial)....both are underated....if they had better deliverys and less soft sounding voices that didn't sound like 16 yr olds nikkas would be on they dikk...Murder Mase potentially had it in em to be better than Biggie by a wide margin...if diddy hadn't got infatuated with the shiny suit era,he actually had a nice delivery at one time til he started rappin retarded.....Fab just wuznt blessed with the strong delivery at all...but he slick and be shyttin on nikkas,if you not secure in bein broke sumtimes and fukin extra regular bytches on the regular,you probaly won't like Fab...he talk to slick for nikkas wit low self esteem

I liked Fabs last album, Losos Way and thought that it was far and above the best thing hes ever done.

Aside from that, its just "in one ear, out the other", nothing sticks

Stop actin like he Jadakiss or some shyt. Fab always been more flashy and effeminate. Hes basically a broker, less successful Jay-Z, biting his every move. Whats the point?

 

[Still Benefited]

I liked Fabs last album, Losos Way and thought that it was far and above the best thing hes ever done.

Aside from that, its just "in one ear, out the other", nothing sticks

Stop actin like he Jadakiss or some shyt. Fab always been more flashy and effeminate. Hes basically a broker, less successful Jay-Z, biting his every move. Whats the point?

He lacks the depth both Jada and Jay have which is why i don't put him in the same category...and his last two albums have been on point to me...and tinc3 wuz unfairly hated on.....u listen to fab for the slick lines u can laugh at and say too...you listen for the lyrical display...u don't listen to Fab for content,u listen for the lyrical display,for the advancement of wordplay and lyricism,it ain't supposed to stick...but he has been tryna give sum substance hear and there and I like what I'm hearin....he sounds about as souless as Jay doin it...that ain't what fab and jay should be doin,they should be slick talk and nuthin else...fab far more than jay who's 10 times the artist

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

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[Kenny West]

 

[Wacky D]

Let's talk about how Sega Saturn stood toe to toe with Playstation tho'. See, nikkas don't wanna talk about that. Saturn was poppin' in the hood.

actually there was a brief rivalry between the two when the 32x systems first took over. alot of people were riding for saturn in '96-97.

if youre gonna troll, at least troll properly.

Nah Jada wuz more than a punchline rapper,I'm talkin bout dudes with a bunch of empty lines used simply to set up the next punchline....fab wuz metaphors like almost every other bar with a bunch of meaningless lines inbetween to set up the metaphor....to me fab is way better than he wuz durin ghetto fabolous for that reason.

Kind of a insult to jada to put jada up as the man who spawned the corny east coast mixtape rappers I'm talkin about,a bunch of nameless nikkas who walked around thinkin of metaphors all day...Fab birthed them nikkas,he surpassed that now and left all those corny bums for dead...who been as consistent for aslong with the punchlines?ill wait.

i guess when you debate about who the best punchline rapper was, it all comes down to how you look at it.

i will say that fabolous was clearly the most influential & impactful with the punchlines.

the best rapper to be punchline heavy would be jada or big l.

the best usage of punchlines goes to either j.r. writer, fabolous or cassidy.

 

[Wacky D]

Still my fav moment in hip hop when my fav rappers dropped on the same day. I was more excited for fab shyt to be honest and i bumped it more for the first few months.

Outside of jay and nas. Fab controlled 2001 from jan to dec. People forgot about all the clones that popped up and started to look like dude lol

*shows up to school in my Marshall Faulk jersey*

*rocks a paper towel bandana*

*harlem shakes anytime I hear a beat*

*looks around the room*

*realizes every kid was dressed like me *

Fab was birthing clones left and right back in the day

these quotes basically sum up alot of what im saying.

and yea, alot of those fab fanatics/clones walking around were the main ones trying to vouch for it being better than the blueprint. as well as others. did i think it was ridiculous? yes, but it is what it is.

people forget that even tho its clearly not as good of an album, ghetto fabolous' buzz leading up to 9/11 was right up there with blueprint's. so naturally, if people think so highly of you leading up to your album, obviously, a large sector of them will ride with it til the wheels fall off when it drops.

and if you dont think fab's buzz was as big as blueprint's leading up to 9/11, then youre exposing yourself as being an L7 or just point blank, not being around. so all you f**kheads thats trying to clown somebody, take a look in the mirror and wipe the smoke off your face from your posts backfiring on you, per usual.

 

[Big Mel]

i was listening to Operation:Doomsday at the time and feeling incredibly detached from popular hip hop culture.

BPW did manage to halfway resonate with the drones as far as i could tell but it wasn't until 50, Freeway & Dipset that i actually felt inspired by anything on the commercial side of things.

i maintain that Fab's debut is one of the wackest albums ever. Jada's album seems classic in comparison.

 

[Wacky D]

^at least youre always honest about the years where you tuned out whatever was going on.

these other dudes tho.....

 

[DANJ!]

Nobody's sayin' Fab's buzz was nonexistent... but if you think it was up there with "The Blueprint"'s? And after the albums dropped, they sure as hell weren't toe to toe. Fab was a new star and he was popular, let's leave it there... cause that "Blueprint" anticipation and reaction was a whole 'nother thing.

 

[Mac Ten]

Ghetto Fabolous was a mixed bag. DURO actually did a good job engineering

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Man, I hated that album. So disappointing. I was looking forward to it, too, and it just fell short and flat.

 

[Deadman187]

Holy shyt the production on this album was fukking garbage. Nothing but generic thin sounding early 00's keyboard beats

 

[Lonj]

For a second I thought OP was talking about Mystikal's Ghetto Fabulous

 

[fallback]

Man, I hated that album. So disappointing. I was looking forward to it, too, and it just fell short and flat.

Most of Fab's albums are like that sadly. The best "album" he arguably put out is the More street dreams mixtape. The most disappointing was the Real Talk album in 04...he was killing the mixtapes that year, Breathe was a good single and with Jay just retiring he had the chance the take a step up and that album really fell flat with a bunch of commercial tracks and little depth. The only thing it's really remembered for is putting Jeezy on to the east coast.