![]() ![]() The other charting singles were "Young'n (Holla Back)", which was produced by The Neptunes and "Trade It All", which features vocals from Jagged Edge and was produced by DJ Clue and Duro.įabolous released his second album Street Dreams on March 4, 2003. It charted on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, along with two of the subsequent singles. The album's first single, " Can't Deny It", was produced by Rick Rock and features a chorus by Nate Dogg interpolating Tupac Shakur's song "Ambitionz Az a Ridah". It debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, selling over 140,000 copies in its first week. It just happened for me." 2001–2003: Ghetto Fabolous and Street Dreams įabolous released his debut album, Ghetto Fabolous, on September 11, 2001. This was something where I could make some money. In a September 6, 2001, interview with, Fabolous said he never planned on becoming a rapper and told the website: "I was just trying to make some money, ya know? I got tired of being broke. This earned Fabolous and Desert Storm a distribution deal with Elektra Records. Fabolous was then featured on several DJ Clue mixtapes, as well as mixtapes with Roc-A-Fella artists. rapped over the instrumental to The Lox's Money, Power & Respect, and DJ Clue subsequently signed Fabolous to his record label, Desert Storm Records. He was invited to rap live on American record producer and music executive DJ Clue's radio show, then on New York City radio station Hot 97. ![]() The misspelling was unintentional Jackson originally intended to be simply called "Fabulous" but incorrectly spelled it during a freestyle and it stuck. In the early years of his career, he rapped under the name Fabolous Sport, in reference to Ralph Lauren's Polo Sport line, however this was later shortened to simply Fabolous. While in his senior year of high school, Jackson began to pursue a career in hip hop music. Jackson attended High School of Art & Design and City-As-School High School in Manhattan, and eventually Boys and Girls High School in Bed-Stuy. He grew up in Breevort Houses in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Life and career 1977–2000: Early life and career beginnings įabolous was born John David Jackson on November 18, 1977, and is of Dominican and African-American descent.
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