THE ARTCLE SHOULD BE PUBLISHED THIS WEEK ONLINE BUT HERE IS THE TEXT FROM THE ARTICLE.. I HAVE NO LINK THIS WAS SENT IN A EMAIL...
> Da Baydestrian
> Thizz/Faeva Afta/SMC Recordings
> XL
>
> After gaining regional acclaim with his 2005 disc, Son of a Pimp,
> Mistah F.A.B. became a hyphy poster boy. It wasn’t long before
> Atlantic Records came calling. But the Oakland raider’s major-label
> breakthrough recently hit a hurdle when his “Ghost Ride It” video
> was banned for illegally using the Ghostbusters logo. So with plan
> Atlantic on pause until things cool down, F.A.B. goes back to plan Bay
> and releases his latest indie effort, Da Baydestrian.
> F.A.B. never fails to provide color commentary on life in the O,
> especially on the Rob E–produced title track and the Messy
> Marv–guested “Crack Baby Anthem.” Sticking close to his roots, Da
> Yellow Bus Rydah pays tribute to his Thizz mentor, Mac Dre, on the
> slow-rolling “Furley Ghost.” Yet, while the music sounds solid, the
> headliner sometimes gets overshadowed by his elder statesmen. Spice 1
> and Keak Da Sneak show Fabby Davis Jr. how to put the pedal to the
> metal on the hyperactive “Race 4 Ya Pink Slips,” while Too $hort
> takes the reins on the Traxamillion-helmed “Sideshow (Remix).”
> Hyphy, however, is an acquired taste, and not every dose is fit for
> mass consumption. Cuts like the overaggressive “Fight Music” and
> the Ritalin-induced “Can’t Wait” will get lost on the casual
> listener—a fact F.A.B. accepts on the latter, spittin’, “A little
> futuristic, but pimpish/Only a few of you will get this/Some of y’all
> truly will miss this/But I better be on your No. 1 hit list.”
> It’s when he steps outside his Bay boundaries that F.A.B. shows signs
> of living up to his boasts. Personal songs like the stormy “Life On
> Track” and “100 Bars,” a six-minute oratory on the African
> Diaspora, reveal an MC willing to bare his soul. The piano-drenched
> “Deepest Thoughts” sums up F.A.B.’s mind state best: “I pump
> love in my songs, you say I am hate/I am real, but still you say that I
> am fake/Sooner or later we realize I am great.” —Maurice G. Garland
THOUGHTS?
> Da Baydestrian
> Thizz/Faeva Afta/SMC Recordings
> XL
>
> After gaining regional acclaim with his 2005 disc, Son of a Pimp,
> Mistah F.A.B. became a hyphy poster boy. It wasn’t long before
> Atlantic Records came calling. But the Oakland raider’s major-label
> breakthrough recently hit a hurdle when his “Ghost Ride It” video
> was banned for illegally using the Ghostbusters logo. So with plan
> Atlantic on pause until things cool down, F.A.B. goes back to plan Bay
> and releases his latest indie effort, Da Baydestrian.
> F.A.B. never fails to provide color commentary on life in the O,
> especially on the Rob E–produced title track and the Messy
> Marv–guested “Crack Baby Anthem.” Sticking close to his roots, Da
> Yellow Bus Rydah pays tribute to his Thizz mentor, Mac Dre, on the
> slow-rolling “Furley Ghost.” Yet, while the music sounds solid, the
> headliner sometimes gets overshadowed by his elder statesmen. Spice 1
> and Keak Da Sneak show Fabby Davis Jr. how to put the pedal to the
> metal on the hyperactive “Race 4 Ya Pink Slips,” while Too $hort
> takes the reins on the Traxamillion-helmed “Sideshow (Remix).”
> Hyphy, however, is an acquired taste, and not every dose is fit for
> mass consumption. Cuts like the overaggressive “Fight Music” and
> the Ritalin-induced “Can’t Wait” will get lost on the casual
> listener—a fact F.A.B. accepts on the latter, spittin’, “A little
> futuristic, but pimpish/Only a few of you will get this/Some of y’all
> truly will miss this/But I better be on your No. 1 hit list.”
> It’s when he steps outside his Bay boundaries that F.A.B. shows signs
> of living up to his boasts. Personal songs like the stormy “Life On
> Track” and “100 Bars,” a six-minute oratory on the African
> Diaspora, reveal an MC willing to bare his soul. The piano-drenched
> “Deepest Thoughts” sums up F.A.B.’s mind state best: “I pump
> love in my songs, you say I am hate/I am real, but still you say that I
> am fake/Sooner or later we realize I am great.” —Maurice G. Garland
THOUGHTS?
