What happened to Fashawn's career?

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I'm listening to his first album Boy Meets World (2009). He had Exile on the production and I vividly remember a lot of good reviews about this album.

Thinking back to the time (2006-2009), he was bubbling at the same time as cats like: Dom Kennedy, Blu, Nipsey Hussle, Pac Div, UNI, and TDE on a smaller level than they are now.

Basically the cats on that Curly Tops and Nautica Jackets tape

But it's crazy how most of the guys I named up there never reached the level they were destined to. Dom and Nip are still doing it, TDE, YG, and the rest of these cats are running the game from what I can tell

Boy Meets World and The Antidote were solid and so was Ode to Illmatic, even though Elzhi crushed the buildings with his take on Illmatic.

What happened to duke? Haven't seen any projects from him in a minute.
 
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I'm listening to his first album Boy Meets World (2009). He had Exile on the production and I vividly remember a lot of good reviews about this album.

Thinking back to the time (2006-2009), he was bubbling at the same time as cats like: Dom Kennedy, Blu, Nipsey Hussle, Pac Div, UNI, and TDE on a smaller level than they are now.

Basically the cats on that Curly Tops and Nautica Jackets tape

But it's crazy how most of the guys I named up there never reached the level they were destined to. Dom and Nip are still doing it, TDE, YG, and the rest of these cats are running the game from what I can tell

Boy Meets World and The Antidote were solid and so was Ode to Illmatic, even though Elzhi crushed the buildings with his take on Illmatic.

What happened to duke? Haven't seen any projects from him in a minute.


one of my favorite mc's but i feel like he's been trying too hard to please everyone with the types of songs he makes. needs to do that focused 1 producer/1 mc album and crush shyt
 

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Yeah, did a Grizzly City mixtape after the album

He had another tape Champagne & Styrofoam Cups that took forever to come out, just had something with Murs I really didn't mess with.
 

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Ill still check for him. Hes taking a bit too long for that sophomore release but he has been more visible recently. Dude is nice
 

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This came on the shuffle yesterday, and it made me wonder three things:

Will Ecology ever see the light of day:noah:

Not in the same vein as the Antidote, but ALC and him needs to bless us with another joint collabo:lawd:

And, since Nas is signing people now, he would be good fit on Mass Appeal:ahh:
 

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he got on some weed shyt and lost focus

Seems like he tried to catch the stoner popularity wave but failed miserably. Fashawn's the type of rapper that needs to slowly build a fanbase and grow in popularity through word of mouth. Boy Meets World was excellent. He's still young, hopefully he gets it together and stops trying to appeal to the masses in exchange for watered down music.
 

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That joint with Wiz had him flowing his ass off... Best flow I heard from him. He washed wiz on it.

I honestly don't like exile beats they are light as fukk. He needs a new go to producer.
 

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That joint with Wiz had him flowing his ass off... Best flow I heard from him. He washed wiz on it.

I honestly don't like exile beats they are light as fukk. He needs a new go to producer.
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remember seeing him with Blu at a show a few years back right after Below the Heavens dropped. Honestly, he ripped the show better than Blu.
Would love to see them both on a project together....real talented cats.
 
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