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EFD MUSIC SCOURCE What’s Next for the Artist? Talks new JAY-Z and more ALMOST 20 YEARS IN !!! HIP- HOP! Over somber keys by pro- his family’s needs first. On #ChoosyChallenge, as well ducer AraabMuzik, Fabolous November 18, Fab celebrated as “B.O.M.B.S” that finds him opens Summertime Shootout his 42nd birthday, keeping getting back in his lyrical 3: Coldest Summer Ever with the celebration intimate with bag. an intro about going through his loved ones that included hard times this past summer. rapper , who So Summertime Shootout 3 At the end of the song, he is dating Taina Williams, Em- comes at an opportune time says, “I just feel like life is ily’s daughter, who she and for Fab, where he’s in the pro- hot and cold, ups and downs, Fab are co-parenting. cess of rebuilding himself in back and forth. Wins and a good light. The third install- losses.” “It was a test of things I was ment came on Black Friday saying that I wanted to do and this year, following his tradi- “It’s going to be some sun- things that I was working to- tion of releasing new music shine; it’s going to be some wards,” Fab tells Billboard.“It around a holiday. It’s stacked rain,” he continues. “When wasn’t like, ‘Alright, here’s with features – , Lil it rains, it pours. But ask your birthday. How do you Durk, , yourself: Can you weather the want to do this? How do you Jacquees, , Chris storm until the sun shines want to celebrate again?” this? How do you want it to be Fabolous Lands Seventh Top remembered?’ I 10 Album on was able to find Chart With 'Summertime time and bal- Shootout 3' ance.”

Through his times of self-re- ARTIST MENTIONED alization, Fab’s music Fabolous career didn’t faltered. He Brown, and remains one of the most are just some of the marquee consistent rappers from names who contributed to the Brooklyn and a legend project. Fab described this Fabolous has stated public- in his own right, staying hot as a playlist, encouraging ly that the domestic dispute with verses on Meek Mill’s his fans to play it all the way involving his longtime girl- “Uptown Vibes,” ’ through and add their favor- friend and mother of his two “If You Gotta…,” and Casa- ites to their own personalized children, Emily Bustamante nova’s “So Brooklyn,” which playlists as they wish. -- for which the rapper was helped kick off the entire arrested and indicted in #SoBrooklynChallenge. On Over the phone on December 2018 -- is behind them. After his own singles, he’s built 4 -- better known in the hip- working through their issues excitement behind the Sum- hop world as Jay-Z’s birth- privately, he says he's trying mertime Shootout day -- Fab spoke to Billboard to become a better person, with “Choosy” featuring about his Thanksgiving, a better father, and a better and and its working with and partner, focusing on putting 46 MUSIC SOURCE December 9th 2019 Now he is doing things times today where everybody They would all drop records outside of the music game is so caught up. There is so in December or early to late that are huge as well. much going on. Social media December. And we would get is flying 100 miles an hour. big turnouts. Let’s get into the release You got your own life. You got of the album, Summertime personal things that you gotta I do remember there was kind Shootout 3. You dropped it do. You got so much going on of a “black” time right after around Thanksgiving -- how that sometimes music gets that. January was usually was your Thanksgiving? pushed to the back, because the “black out,” like a dead things are [higher] priority space because I guess after than that. It was good. I spent it with Thanksgiving, Christmas, family. We ate kind of late, New Years, people are pretty so that was a change. One of our ideas going That was a new vibe, not in from a long time ago -- eating as early as we have because I’ve been dropping planned. Sometimes doing projects during the holidays, something different, it sparks Thanksgiving, Christmastime a new energy. We ate late for a while -- was catching so everybody was definitely people while they’re dormant, hungry. [Laughs.] while they got a chance to kick their feet up, and they It was , overall. don’t have work the next day, Great spending time with the and they don’t have to do as family. My album dropped much. I think one of the only at midnight. We all got to disadvantages is that things tapped out. You’re not going take part and engage in shut down a little bit towards to get big sales after that. that. In between helping and the holidays. Other than that, But the big sales usually preparing everything and the connection to the listener, came in December and they getting myself ready, you I think that’s worth it. would shoot back up once know, approving things for late January, late February the project, signing the vinyl We are just more tuned in. [comes around]. covers and different things You had a few projects that like that. It was an interesting dropped during the holidays. Thanksgiving. After you dropped a project, you did a fan concert called One of the S.O.U.L. Tapes The Black Friday Pull Up It’s almost become a ritual. on Christmas. One of the in Brooklyn. How was the If people want a break from S.O.U.L. Tapes dropped experience? their families, they can listen around Thanksgiving. I just to new Fab. caught wind of it a little It was fun. It was really an while ago. I remember back appreciation thing, pulling up Yeah, that definitely was one in the days in the late ‘90s, and performing. Between me of the ideas. The holiday November-December, mostly and Def Jam, we got a venue time is where people slow December was a big time to out in Brooklyn and people down a little bit more. You drop records. I think all the just pulled up. I didn’t have a get a chance to really take in big dogs: Jay-Zs, the DMXs. setlist. We just really pulled an album. Especially in our 47 MUSIC SOURCE December 9th 2019