"You Could Erase Fabolous' Entire Music Discography From Existence & Hip Hop Wouldn't Change. Fab Is One The Least Influential Rappers Ever"
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I forgot all about it
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
This here.
Dude spent his whole career sounding half-awake over even weaker production, and doing just enough to stay "relevant' by wave hopping and biting whoever was popping at the time. He really hung around forever and didn't contribute anything impactful. The epitome of getting over.
spliz
SplizThaDon
nikkas legit saying with a straight face that Fab ain't have influence meanwhile the whole Throwback era was based off him as well as the punchline rap shyt he was one of the trailblazers. People really show themselves on here. Lol
Fab always epitomized a generic rapper to me. He’s probably most memorable for how he spelled his name. Joe Budden is another, but he was actually hyped up as being next. He had that Pump it Up single (that’s probably known more for Jay spitting over it), then his rap career became meh.
the cac mamba
Veteran
i mean, does it not exist, or does it go to someone else?
maybe the alternative is that the beat goes to Jay Z or something. Fab didn't do that beat justice
fab is (well was) one of my fav rappers ever... but they arent wrong 
his calling card was his mixtapes, and while i think he has some classic tapes, i wouldnt put any of them in my top 10-15 all time. lets not even get into the albums...
his calling card was his mixtapes, and while i think he has some classic tapes, i wouldnt put any of them in my top 10-15 all time. lets not even get into the albums...
Fab is low-key a rapper starter kit.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
Lord Finesse was the punchline trailblazer. After him, Big L was running punchlines way before Fab came out.
The throwback sh*t was Hov. Dude was rocking throwbacks for every single city on the Hard Knock Life tour, in '99. That's when Kanye said he saw Jay doing that and he started rocking them and took it back to Chicago and claims he had the whole city doing the same. This was years before Fab dropped. Hov was doing it for years, even in his album artwork up until The Blueprint. But the first MC credited with actually doing it first was Big Boi from Outkast. He was rocking them everywhere in the 90's in their videos and is the one Mitchell and Ness says took throwbacks to the next level, when they had the store at Lenox in Atlanta back then. M&N says Big Boi put the whole city on throwbacks back then.
Fab would take sh*t that was already going on, and just OD on it crazy, lol. His whole career was like that. Generic versions of other sh*t more talented people were doing.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
Budden was a really dope MC.
He was definitely seen as "next", but he got caught up in doing everything but focusing on the music. Dude could tell stories, had punchlines, club records, introspective joints, etc. People started associating him with everything but his talent, and he was never the same again.
But if he stayed focused on the craft, he could've easily cooked up a couple classics back then.
spliz
SplizThaDon
nikka I know this. But this is how I know u wasn't outside or u too old. Because anyone denying Fab's influence on punchline mixtape rappers in the early 2000s is delusional. Son I cant lie u consistently have some of the WORST takes sometimes. Like the fact u even had the audacity to say NYC ain't fukk wit Pop Smoke until he died was some of the most nonsensical shyt I ever read. To deny Fab's influence on nikkas rocking throwbacks is straight up delusional. Mitchell and Ness even wanted to give son an endorsement. U out ya rabbid ass mind. Lol
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Big Boi as far as throwbacks >>> Fab wack ass
Duke Dixon
Superstar
I remember working overnight when There is No Competition came out. Someone threw the mixtape on and everyone was saying last words to every bar. This was only a week or two after it came out. He can't be that irrelevant if a roomful of guys listened to the shyt by themselves remembered every word.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
I said all that, and you chose to get emotional about it, lol. Trying too hard, bro.
By the late 90's, Finesse and L had already trailblazed punchlines and that whole style Fab was running with. Cam says the same all the time about L. Everyone knows Finesse started that and made it a thing. Pun credited Finesse with it too, so does Jadakiss. So how can Fab be a "trailblazer' for some sh*t that was going on at a high level way before people even knew he existed?
M&N just dropped Roc throwbacks for Jay, saying he was the one who skyrocketed their business in '99 and beyond and put throwbacks on. Again, this was years before Fab even dropped. But you can cry about that too on here, if you want.
It's March 2024, and you're still talking about some sh*t I said about Pop Smoke when...? A year ago? You really gotta stop taking this forum sh*t so personally. It's embarrassing for you. You're holding on to sh*t that nobody is even thinking about, lol. You gotta have other sh*t going on. Don't let the opinions of other n*ggas on here bother you that much. It's gonna be aight.
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