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Mistah Fab Son Of A Pimp Rar5/9/2021
Born Stanley P. Cox in 1982 and raised by his mother and grandmother, he stresses the positivity of hyphys party-happy, irreverent, but inspirational go dumb mentality and manifests a dedication to inner-city social issues, which doesnt mean hes immune to a certain amount of mainstream raps flamboyant materialism: his handle is supposedly an acronym for Money Is Something to Always Have -- FaEva After Bread.F.A.B., who also goes by Fabby Davis, Jr., titled his second album Son of a Pimp in bluntly literal reference to his pimp father, who was incarcerated for much of F.A.B.s childhood and died of AIDS-related complications when his son was 12, around the time he started writing rhymes.
Mistah Fab Son Of A Pimp Rar Mac Dres ThizzThat album, F.A.B.s first for hyphy forerunner Mac Dres Thizz label (following his 2003 debut, Nig-Latin), featured collaborations with many noted Bay Area rappers including Dre, E-40, Turf Talk, and G-Stack of Oakland heroes the Delinquents -- as well as Kanye West -- and boasted one of the biggest hits of the resurgent hyphy scene, Super Sic wit It. A slew of mixtapes, compilations, and guest spots made him ubiquitous in the local scene throughout 2005 and 2006, and led him to host his own locally oriented show, Yellow Bus Radio, on KYLD-FM, which -- in keeping with hyphys special-ed scholastic motif -- featured weekly book reports. With burgeoning national interest in Bay Area hip-hop in 2006, F.A.B. Mistah Fab Son Of A Pimp Rar Series Of ObstaclesAtlantic Records that September, but a series of obstacles hindered his career momentum. KMEL-FM, the Bays top urban station, imposed an unofficial but crippling blacklist of F.A.B.s songs and guest appearances, due to petty personal grievances as well as the perceived slight of his successful show on a rival station, thereby significantly undermining his hometown visibility. Later, his breakout single, Ghost Ride It, was the subject of controversy on two fronts -- national clamor over the hyphy practice of ghost riding described in the song (throwing a car in neutral, then jumping out and walking alongside or riding on the roof as it continues to move), following two fatal, allegedly related incidents, and threatened legal action from Columbia Pictures over the use of the Ghostbusters logo in the video (the track samples the movies theme song) -- which caused the video to first be heavily censored and then pulled from television altogether. Da Yellow Bus Rydah, F.A.B.s debut for Atlantic, originally scheduled for spring of 2007, was delayed by over two years (and slated for a 2009 release under the revised title The Bus Ride). ![]() That year, he released his fourth official LP, I Found My Backpack 2: The Lost Notebook. Da Yellow Bus Rydah followed in 2012, before F.A.B. B.o.B and Chris Brown, as well as an anthem written for the Oakland Raiders. He continued to issue mixtapes and battle in the underground circuit, returning to the studio for his sixth full-length, 2016s Son of a Pimp, Pt. ![]() Ever the prolific artist, yet more mixtapes followed including 2017s Stan Pablo - 4506 and 2018s Its Yall Fault Im Rich, along with two official albums in 2018s Thug Tears and Thug Tears 2.
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