Street Dreams by Fabolous
Proven.
Fabolous would have us believe he’s serving up Street Dreams, but the
Brooklyn rapper’s sophomore effort is more likely to rock the party than
shake the boulevards. The F.A.B.O.’s smooth, deadpan flow cruises over
benignly commercial beats (courtesy of Clue, Just Blaze, and Kanye West,
among others), and the overall effect isn’t hard enough to stand up to
official street-issue hip-hop (think 50 Cent Is the Future or any M.O.P.
release). Sure, Fabolous is not without charm. His straightforward delivery
of the never-too-deep subject matter enhances slinky, slangy club joints
like the Track Masters-produced Damn and the R&B-inflected ballads
Can’t Let You Go and Trade It All Part 2. The album also features solid
guest appearances by Missy Elliott (the electro-funky Sickalicious), Mary J.
Blige (a retooling of her classic What’s the 411 entitled My Life), and pop
princess Ashanti (Into You), but the entire proceedings are stolen by the
aforementioned M.O.P., whose verses on Keepin’ It Gangsta illustrate
what street is really all about. --Rebecca Levine
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Street Dreams is my all time favorite album. Fabolous has ill lyrics, a dope
flow, dope wordplay and a good delivery.
I will rate all of the tracks on this album now from 1 to 10. 1 being the
lowest, 5 being satisfactory and 10 being the highest.
1. Intro -
2. Not Give a **** - 9/10
3. D*** - 5/10
4. Call Me - 9/10
5. Cant Let You Go - 9/10
6. Bad ***** - 9/10
7. Why Wouldnt I - 5/10
8. Up on Things - 5/10
9. Sickalicious - 5/10
10. This is My Party - 9/10
11. Into You - 10/10
12. Change You or Change Me - 8/10
13. Respect - 6/10
14. Forgive Me Father - 5/10
15. Never Duplicated - 5/10
16. Wake Up -
17. My Life - 8/10
18. Throw Back - 7/10
19. Keepin It Gangsta Remix - 9/10
20. Trade it All Pt. 2 - 10/10
Not Give a **** is one of my favorite songs on the album. He lays down
some very good rhymes.With lyrics like These dudes dont stand a
chance/When I pull up like the Pamper Brand/On Those Lambo Slants/....,
I really thought the second verse was his best on this song.
Call Me is another good song. Who is featured on this song? Is it Ashanti?
Whoever it is, she has a great voice. Fabolous spits lyrics like Cause shes
been lookin for the kid like Bush was searchin for Bin Laden.... Its songs
like this that make Fabolous my favorite rapper.
Cant Let You Go is my second favorite song. He has some dope lyric s
backed up by a tremendous instrumental. I especially like the ending of
this song. The video for this song was good too. I listen to this song all the
time, my older brother also likes this song.
This is my Party is my favorite club banger. Once again, he lays down
really good rhymes in the first verse, and the third verse. In my opinion, the
second verse isnt so good.
Into You is my absolute favorite song ever. I love the video. I love the
instrumental. Fabolous has dope lyrics on this song. Tamia is a really
vocalist. Lines like ...with the blue so hard you think I was crippin really
made this song good. The video is good. I hope that in the future, there will
be more love songs like this and Cant Let You Go.
Overall, I think that this album is worth buying. I bought Street Dreams in
2005, which was a few years after it was released. I really regret buying
the album now, because I love it, and I wanted to see the videos (Cant Let
You Go, This is My Party, etc.) when they were on MTV and BET.
Fortunately, I got to seethe videos this year on www.blastro.com. I hope
Fabolous releases another album that is like this in the future. I give this
album a 9/10. Street Dreams is one of the best albums I ever heard.
Keep up the good work Fabolous.
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