Episode 709 | Oppression Olympics

We love hip hop.

So

yeah,

that's what y'all want to do.

A fucking fabulous versus Lloyd Banks.

Y'all down to do that?

I think it would be worthy of a versus.

I just like initially, instinctually, I want to say Fab would win, but I feel like Banks has a lot of sleeper tracks.

And if you include G-Unit.

If you include G-Unit, then it's going to be a long night.

Definitely.

Definitely.

But without the G-Unit tracks, I think Fab has them wiped out.

Did Fab ever have to spit gangster bars? All

of his bars are kind of gangster.

I think a lot of it is just wordplay, but there are subtle gangsterisms sprinkled in there.

Yeah, he didn't really come across as the most G'd up rapper.

Yeah,

yeah.

You know when Fab tried to go more gangster? You remember his album, Losos World? Yeah.

maybe

what songs were on there

oh frick it wasn't oh you'd be killing his killing him in his on that on low souls world but that wasn't like the gangster track you know i'm saying but he had um you know what let me go look it up here that was a

single for sure and that song went crazy

low souls world fab f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s and now you're uh live by the way low souls

what up kick

What

tracks came off of

that? One Take Jake, if you could pull up the screen over here.

Oh, I didn't have it.

I don't have my dual screen on.

Oh, well, fuck it.

Good.

Okay.

So, Loso's Way.

What did they have on that? My Time featuring Jeremiah.

That was insane.

Everything,

every day, everywhere.

Yeah, this wasn't no gangster show you're talking about.

There was a song.

There was this one song where he talked about a gun.

Yeah.

That's

what I'm saying.

You'll have like a one, two

bars where you're like, okay.

Yeah, the song Losos Way itself.

They had like a black and white video and he was talking about, he was trying to kind of being mob influenced and shit like that.

But I guess you're right.

It's mostly girl shit.

Do you feel like that brand of rapper can still thrive today where it's like you're more smooth and swaggy and more of like a player representation? And it's just bars like you're not really saying anything gangster.

Like, do you feel like that could pop off today or do you feel like not anymore?

Who's doing it? Yeah, I feel like Cash Cobain was kind of on that.

He was just like talking about bitches.

But, like, lyrical, like, extra lyrical.

I'm trying to think of, like, Fab lyric level.

Yeah, I think that's what the game is missing right now.

A lyrical rapper that's willing to, like, get into, like, the shawty thing.

Or, like, be more for the ladies.

Just, like, lyrical and, like, swaggy, you know what I mean? Suave.

I feel like Fab was respected by the hood, even though he wasn't necessarily the most, like, gangster

dude.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, it's funny because Fab's first song, that like really popped him off was the song there with a superwoman with a little mo.

So it was like automatically they were trying to like fit him into a more female friendly audience from the, from the hop.

You know what I mean? He had the baby face and the chip too.

So they were really trying to focus on like making him in like a, a young heartthrob.

Yeah, because I feel like this was the period of music where like R&B and rap were fusing.

Big time.

And I feel like this is like kind of Diddy's like he kind of pioneered that low key.

I feel like rapping on the R&B beats and like combining the two genres.

So it worked out for fab.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.