Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Fabolous
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I'm more into myself with my family, and my personal life is usually handled inside, it's not usually public, with opinions, comments, family members involved - them reacting to everything.
When you get the light shined on you, it's always interesting to see how people do in that light. The light shines on you, the spotlight's on you, so what are you going to do?
Sometimes in life, your best teacher is experience and going through something to figure it out.
I just wanted to make good music that people related to me and said 'Yo that guy makes good music. When he gives us an effort, it's good music behind it. It's great lyrics, it's witty punchlines, it's great metaphors.'
Just finding the right balance of career, family, personal goals, personal feelings. All of that is part of life and part of growing up.
Part of leaving your legacy is not worrying what everyone is saying about it.
Me and Chainz hang out, we talk. I go to Atlanta, I go to Chainz's restaurant. Chainz came to my dinner. Chainz is my guy.
Twitter, I always say is the drunk uncle of my personality, because I say some stuff sometimes that, you know that drunk uncle at the Thanksgiving table, he starts rambling on about, that he shouldn't have said so sometimes I do that.
As a celebrity, you have to have some type of peace of your personal life.
And I would like to work with Eminem. Because I've always been a fan of his work.
I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, 'I'm gonna have the illest verse.'
I like when videos used to make you sit at home, and you'd watch it and be like in awe like, 'I wish I was at that place, man. I wanna go on a vacation.'
I'm definitely a little surprised at what hip-hop was able to do to my life.
In music, if somebody makes a good song, you want to be in that category and make the good songs too. It may not even be a competition thing, it's just a thing to keep your skills up type of thing.
Look at Jay-Z and Beyonce. Everybody knew Jay and Beyonce were dating. They were sitting around at award shows together like they weren't together for a while before they came out and said whatever. But your life doesn't always have to be exposed. There are a lot of people whose personal lives aren't exposed.
I like fashion shows. I like the quick flash of culture and energy.
It's not just in The Bronx or in the ghettos or even just America. It's worldwide. Who knows, it could be some aliens on Mars listening to hip-hop, you know what I mean? So it's really, really transformed from this little thing of ours to a thing for everyone.
I want to work with Nas.
Stay in school... Even being a rapper you need an education.
I noticed that what you're wearing is a representation of yourself and speaks for you before you do.
Jay-Z has always been a huge figure in hip-hop.
Beyonce is graceful, man. Even her way of checking you is graceful.
I like comfortable settings. Just somewhere where you can sit and chill and you got your friends and you got drinks and food.
What you grow up listening to makes the kind of person that you are.
As I continue my artistry, I want to touch places that I haven't gone and do certain music that I haven't done over and over again.
I'm very observant. So, my mentor is really basically a lot of people who are just around me and life itself. Just living and going different places and traveling.
The holiday time is where people slow down a little bit more. You get a chance to really take in an album.
That's the kind of lane that I try to keep my fashion usually in - not too uppity, not too out of the norm, but little touches that make it special.
In 20 years, a lot of things change, especially in music. From CDs to tapes to vinyl to digital now, you know, a lot changes.
Some of the ways I write my raps is from my vocabulary I learned in school.
I go from streetwear to high-end fashion, to being formal and wearing suits.
Even before I became an artist myself, I always cared about my presentation.
I think that's one thing that hinders hip-hop and I think when everybody tries to be the same... That's why people look at the 1990s almost like it was a golden era in hip-hop 'cause it was so much diversity in the music and in the artists. It wasn't everybody just trying to paint the same picture and say it with the same flow.
It's one thing to see the clothes on a rack, but it's interesting to see how they get brought to life.
I feel like I can really adapt to any type of fashion sense that I want to.
I know a lot of people like mixtape Fab, and albums, to me, you're speaking to a broader audience sometimes. I take that at hand.
I don't take Twitter that serious. It's all in good humor. I've made fun of people on Twitter and it's whatever.
I used to to hustle growing up.
The thing about marriage is that I believe in it, but don't believe in it. I think sometimes people put that ring and that paper and it messes up a good thing.
Its shocking to come from doing freestyles to having the No. 4 album in the country. It pushes me to do better and better so I can get to No. 1.
I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist.
Sometimes you say punchlines or say things in music and you may not even know any seriousness behind it. You're just trying to say something in the moment to catch attention.
I put a lot in my mixtapes, but I definitely put a lot into my albums as well.
I'm working on this reality show, with me and my son. It's gonna be like, about young fatherhood where, well, not too young, but in the same token as being my first child and he's so young and me still being relevant in hip-hop. You know, having to balance my career being a father at the same time.
I had a certain level of patience, but sometimes weathering the storm is a patient process. Every storm don't pass fast. Every storm, it can be passing, but it can be getting stronger and stronger or it could be coming down hard.
That's where my fashion comes from; it comes from versatility. You can mix and manage different things.
Whether I've been here three years or 10 years, my agenda is still in the same place as it was when I first came in: it's to continue to make good music, and raise the bar to grow and evolve as a person, as an artist, as everything; just to be a better me.
I had a studio session with Nipsey Hussle. We didn't record, but we just vibed and we talked. It was just good conversation. We played music for each other that we had previously worked on. It was a good vibe.
Me and Pusha have always been cool even though we haven't done many collaborations.
Streetwear is pretty comfortable.
Certain people have that feeling like 'I want to know this. I want to know that.' I have none.
Even sometimes, when you're at home with the family, you need a break from them, really.
I won't change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else's.
Sometimes you have crazy ideas that sound crazy to everybody, but I'm sure everybody has had a crazy idea before. When you pull it off and you don't look crazy anymore, you look like a genius.
I think that's where the music business is where it is today because at one point, we were just splurging so much money and it was just extra. Everything was just extra and over did. Now, people are being as creative as they were but they're not spending $500,000 or a million on a video.
I love collaborations because I love the mixture of the minds.
I think the worst thing you could do is not shoot the shot. When you shoot you got two options: It can go in or you can miss, and even in the miss you might learn.
I really respect Hov's drive, as well as his whole career and what he's done for the culture.
You gotta claim the crown and the people also gotta crown you, too. It's not just about somebody saying they king.
I don't think that marriage is in the future for me, I really don't.
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