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Street Dreams  Hear it Now

RS: 2of 5 Stars Average User Rating: 4.5of 5 Stars

2003

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Belligerent enough to satisfy the streets but bubblegum enough to rule radio, twenty-two-year-old Brooklyn rapper Fabolous went to the bank on his debut, 2001's platinum-certified Ghetto Fabolous. His follow-up, Street Dreams, is more focused on the spoils of success (cash, cars, girls, gear) than the hustling it took to get there. Most of the time, that doesn't matter, thanks to Fab's gift of gab (he's made "swallowing kids" a colloquialism for fellatio).

Catchy club heaters such as "Why Wouldn't I" and the percussive "Damn" demonstrate that his word power is "so cool when [he] walk in/It feel like it's a draft in the room." But dull missteps such as "Sickalicious" and "Into You" show a lack of creative vision that stunts him when the hot beats run dry. As Fab himself observes on the album's lead track, he might be "old enough to know better," but he's still young enough to "Not Give a Fuck."

CHAIRMAN MAO
(From RS 919, April 3, 2003)



(Posted: Mar 11, 2003)

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