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100 & Single: Considering The Album-Chart Class Of 9/11, 10 Years Later
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July 26, 2011
Power 105 Is Throwing A Big Concert On Governor's Island Next Month
Power 105 has announced Power Live, a multi-artist affair with a bill that includes the likes of Kelly Rowland, J. Cole, Fabolous, and Big Sean. The show goes down on Sunday, August 21, and tickets range between $45 and $105 before surcharges; the more expensive ticket not only grants access to the ... More >>
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Live: The 4Knots Party Continues With Dan Deacon And Yeasayer (And The Spice Girls, Too)
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June 6, 2011
Live: Rick Ross Lives Out His Dreams At Summer Jam
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May 9, 2011
Fabolous Loosens Up On The S.O.U.L. Tape
At this point, Fabolous's spot in hip-hop is carved in stone. He's the Welterweight Champion of Punchlines, the master jabber who has fruitlessly chased the knockout blow for so long the pursuit defines him. His chronic, career-long inability to say "no" to A&R men has resulted in some of the ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Hot 97 Announces The Seemingly Young Money-Sponsored Summer Jam '11 Lineup
Hot 97 has announced the lineup for Summer Jam '11, and it's (perhaps unsurprisingly) filled with Young Money acts: superstars Lil Wayne and Drake act as the de facto headliners, while a non-specific set by Young Money, the label, is on tap. Could that possibly mean an eventual cameo by Nic ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Cee Lo Green and the Year of "Fuck You"
Summing up 2010 in two little words
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January 12, 2011
Live: JayCeeOh Prevails At The Slightly Ridiculous McDonald's "Flavor Battle"
Best DJ-booth setup of all time. Pics by Puja, more below.The Flavor Battle Arena Tuesday, January 11 Better Than: A Chik-fil-A DJ battle. We're secretly reveling in the recent emergence of DJs as hip purveyors all that is "cool." So when we heard that McDonalds and Complex were throwing a ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: El Debarge Featuring Fabolous, Quadron, Travie McCoy Featuring Cee-Lo
Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: different shades of soul.
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December 3, 2010
Week in Review: Who's Your Daddy?
In the week we began our countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010, we celebrated by mocking efforts from the Far East Movement, Ringo Starr, Godsmack, Trade Martin, and Lil Wayne. Where will Susan Boyle fall? Tune in next week and suffer more abuse until you find out.
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November 29, 2010
Live: Fabolous and Nicki Minaj Bring Kanye West, Rihanna, and Juelz Santana to a Thanksgiving Show at Hammerstein
Fabolous/Nicki Minaj Hammerstein Ballroom November 25, 2010 Better Than: Awkward Post-Dinner Small Talk Because the purpose of the Fabolous and Nicki Minaj's Thanksgiving double-billing was, according to the promotion, to give thanks to two of the most talented rappers in New York City (or perha ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Nicki Minaj Roundup: Letterman Last Night, Hot 97 Today, Pink Friday Monday, Hammerstein Ballroom On Thanksgiving, Arguments About Her Singing For The Next Several Weeks At Least
RomanceLet's just say multiple members of the Voice critical braintrust are generating possibly dozens of hundreds of words about Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday even as you read this, and leave it at that -- we are excited, is all. Nicki herself, meanwhile, is ubiquitous. Her "If I'm Lucky I'll Fi ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
The 10 Best Posse Cuts of 2010 (So Far)
Posse cuts are like friendlier versions of the WWE's Royal Rumble -- a platform designed to showcase all of the stars in the game, both up-and-coming and certified. Think back to the Main Source's 1991 "Live At The Barbecue," featuring Akinyele, Joe Fatal, and the debut of a rapper named Nas, ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
Week in Review: We're Not Done Yet
Dom makes a new friend. Photo by Sam Horine.Usually this would be right around the time you'd catch us fleeing the office in terror, but since it's CMJ, we're merely fleeing in the office in search of yet more shows. Our CMJ coverage will continue throughout the weekend; you can find what we' ... More >>
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October 19, 2010
Q&A: Tanya Morgan's Von Pea Shares His High School Memories of Fabolous, Biggie, and Jay-Z
Boys & Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn--once home to both the Notorious B.I.G. and Fabolous--has long since become a legendary spot for New York hip-hop. Von Pea, one third of the indie rap group Tanya Morgan, also attended its hallowed halls--a move which inspired his new b ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Week In Review: Kill Harvilla, But Get Belly To Reunite First
It was the week White America lost its mind, as did the guy who wrote a song called "Kill Harvilla" and sent us both the lyrics (not bad) and the instrumental MP3 (very bad). But we here at SOTC prefer more constructive exercises, like listing every '90s band that hasn't reunited yet. A lot o ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
Listen To Fabolous' Bonkers Freestyle On Hot 97 Last Night
"This the flow that put haters on they deathbed/And make the chicks blow the whistle, give me ref head." SOTC favorite Fabolous stopped by Hot 97 last night and regaled Funkmaster Flex with a five-minute freestyle that feels like as good a way to start your day as any -- Fab seems particular ... More >>
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June 8, 2010
A People's History of Summer Jam 2010
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May 12, 2010
Cam'ron Betrays the Working Man on New Mixtape Boss of All Bosses 2.5
So much for 2009's "My Job," Cam'ron's non sequitur but nevertheless moving declaration of solidarity with the proletariat--"The way we look at it," the rapper says on his newest mixtape, Boss of All Bosses 2.5, "the working man's a sucker if you ain't making six digits or better." Further to ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
Week In Review: I Feel Like My Whole Life Is Ridiculous
One of Fabolous' 23 victims. (Note: number is approximate.)Well, we survived another April Fool's Day, a/k/a the worst Internet day of the year, casting aside this year's wan hoaxes and getting to the good stuff: Fucked Up, sued by an energy-drink juggernaut for bad-mouthing SXSW? Hilarious! ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
Counting Bodies (Um, Literally) in the New Video For Fabolous's "Body Ya"
Meet your undertaker: Fabolous.Following up on the genius conceit of Fabolous and DJ Drama's There Is No Competition 2: The Funeral Service, which is basically that Fab kills rappers, and Drama is his undertaker--"Fab got the morgue, and I got the mortuary!" (?!)--comes the video for the mixt ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
New York's Most Fierce 2010 Rap Single, "Beamer, Benz, or Bentley," Gets Perhaps 2010's Dullest Video
Still not in the least sick of hearing this song come on the radio--whether in the original, menacing Juelz Santana/Lloyd Banks vintage, the Joell Ortiz "Nissan, Honda, Chevy" remix, or the blistering Fabolous remake from There Is No Competition 2. That said, they somehow found a whips-n-vixens vi ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Eminem Can Still Rap, World. (So Can Black Thought.)
Every year, the BET Hip-Hop Awards--the 2009 edition of which aired last night--round up three or four different rapper cyphers, taped off-site and with somewhat counterintuitive gangs of MCs going in with what are ostensibly freestyles. Last year, Jadakiss, Fabolous, Juelz Santana, and Ace Hood t ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
'Power 105.1 FM's Powerhouse'
Every year, the BET Hip-Hop Awards--the 2009 edition of which aired last night--round up three or four different rapper cyphers, taped off-site and with somewhat counterintuitive gangs of MCs going in with what are ostensibly freestyles. Last year, Jadakiss, Fabolous, Juelz Santana, and Ace Hood t ... More >>
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September 16, 2009
News Roundup: forgetters, Rock Writer Literary Death Match, Ghostface on Fallon
--After getting a bit more publicly excited than we care to remember about Thorns of Life, last fall's short-lived collaboration between Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil's Blake Schwarzenbach, Aaron Cometbus, and (The L Word's) Daniella Sea, we figured we'd just go ahead and keep quiet about forgett ... More >>
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August 5, 2009
Fabolous Is Number One
Fabolous, the Brooklyn rapper whose Loso's Way came in for a so-so review in last week's Voice and whose 2009 career we have been rooting for, basically, is the number one seller in the country this week. Fab sold 99,000 records in his first week out, good enough to beat both Daughtry and Maxwell. ... More >>
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July 29, 2009
This Week's Voice: Oneida, Fabolous, ZE Records, Japanese Reggaephiles, Funny People, and More
Lionel DeluyMore like an interpreter of hitmaking: Fabolous In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla hops the trans-Brooklyn express with Oneida, New York's finest purveyor of impromptu noise-punk trilogies. Sean Fennessey on Fabolous's new Loso's Way: "A classic mixtape rapper with no cl ... More >>
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July 28, 2009
Fabolous Releases Loso's Way Today, Unveils Twitter Campaign We Always Knew He Had In Him
Alright, alright Fab, we give--did you know that today is the long-awaited release date of Fabolous's Loso's Way, a record we'd been cautiously anticipating until we remembered that all of Fab's records are the same semi-disappointing cyclone of r&b collabos and bad puns? ("I'm not that little pr ... More >>
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July 28, 2009
Who Is Fabolous?
On a constantly-on-the-brink Brooklyn rapper and perils of undersharing
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July 28, 2009
This Week in the Voice
School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session. When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>
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July 8, 2009
New Fabolous, NSFW Video Edition: "Welcome to My Workplace"
It's been a little while since we checked in with Fabolous, the Brooklyn rapper whose Twitter we interviewed back in the innocent days of May. Back then people still cared about swine flu ("NEWS FLASH : Kermit the frog just passed away this morninq from swine flu," he tweeted then, blaming the ... More >>
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May 1, 2009
Week in Review: Penetration!
Hey, it was porn week! Zach live-blogged the Dim Mak porn video. Jadakiss vowed to wake up beside you naked. Peter Saville's Erotic House of Pop streamed online. Asher Roth debuted his sweet new Bukkake-inspired video. (Speaking of which, Asher Roth should probably lose that hypeman.) The police ... More >>
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April 28, 2009
On Red Cafe's "Hottest in the Hood" Remix, Featuring Jadakiss, Rick Ross, Fabolous, and OJ Da Juiceman
Song via the NMC Red Cafe, who apparently just signed to Bad Boy, finally has a decent song on his hands--the original version of "Hottest in the Hood" has been getting burn for what at least seems like months on HOT97, and this remix will definitely get run back on-air four or five hundred times ... More >>
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March 20, 2009
Week in Review: A Punishing Turkish Prison Sentence of the Peter Green-Era Blues Explosion "Oh Well"
David Atlas In the week all your friends went to South by Southwest, New York got a bit rowdy. The old scumbags of Mötley Crüe nearly burned down Madison Square Garden, while Fleetwood Mac brought both punishing Turkish prison sentences and "Silver Springs" to the same arena only a few days later ... More >>
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March 18, 2009
On Fabolous and The-Dream's "Throw It In the Bag"
We'll say it: There is no better five song stretch in 2009 than the one that comes in the middle of The-Dream's impossibly good Love Vs. Money--"Put It Down," "Sweat It Out," "Take You Home 2 My Mama," "Love Vs. Money," and "Love Vs. Money Part 2." Take the middle three songs from that run and put ... More >>
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March 9, 2009
Cam'ron Now Everywhere, All the Time
Remember when you couldn't find Cam'ron? Not so much these days--he might well come to your apartment right now if you promised to buy Crime Pays when it comes out in May. Dunno why we're complaining: this is him doing "I Really Mean It" and "Suck It or Not" at Saturday's Jadakiss/Fabolous show at ... More >>
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January 6, 2009
Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Slim's "Good Lovin' (feat. Fabolous & Ryan Leslie)"
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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December 5, 2008
On Fabolous and the Game's "Where You From?"
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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June 11, 2008
Carter III Discourse: Yeast Infections or Geese Erections?
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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June 6, 2008
Status Ain't Hood Podcast 41
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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April 22, 2008
Return of the Hustle
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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February 5, 2008
The Fabolous Life
Hanging with a rapper who has close ties to his home. Maybe too close.
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July 20, 2007
The Summer-Jam Report: Fabolous and Ne-Yo's "Make Me Better"
Hanging with a rapper who has close ties to his home. Maybe too close.
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June 4, 2007
Live: Hot 97's Summer Jam
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January 4, 2005
Dirty-Dirty Deeds
As O'Reilly's nemesis lip-smacks toward financial future, Rubber Band Man one-ups him
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December 16, 2003
Rappers' Lament
Stop-and-Search as a Way of Life
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May 13, 2003
New Thugs on the Block
Next-Big-Thing Rappers Arrive With Wheeze, Breeze, and Cheese
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October 8, 2002
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