Check out this interview Fabolous did with Honey Mag.com
Honey Magazine: The album, Loso’s Way, it’s coming out the end of this month right?
Fabolous: June 30th [Editor’s Note: The album has been pushed back to drop July 28 to coincide with the DVD release.]
Excited?
I’m very excited.
So what are we going to hear on this album? What’s the sound like? I know that you have two singles out right now.
It’s a themed album, and it’s a little more personal than my last albums. I was watching the movie Carlitos Way and I was inspired by the story of him coming into something more and wanting to be something more, rather then back peddle into his old lifestyle of drugs or being in the street and eventually ending up back in jail. So I looked at that story and saw a lot of things were parallel to my story and I used that to theme the album. I talk about various things that’s happened to me that are personal to me that I’ve really never shared or something’s that were new to me like I just had a son a year ago and I shared that experience in a song. I stated some things about having friends, long time friends, and growing apart and going different ways or how different friendships change. That tied into Carlitos Way because in Carlitos Way he had a friend called Pachanga, and that friend ended up going astray from Carlito over money or just different things and he ended up not being his friend but it was like his right hand man. So I did a song on the album called Pachanga, well I changed it a little bit and called it Pachinga. It describes like three different relationships that changed in my life.
What are those three relationships?
One was a friend of mine, one was a relationship that I was dealing with and one was my crew. When you’re first coming into rapping you have a bunch of friends. You just take your whole fucking block, all of your project with you everywhere you go, and that’s fun. Me now in my fifth album — 9, 10 years in — I’m kind of like trimming down my entourage and seeing certain people are just there to enjoy the ride, not really there to help. That was the crew change for me, really just realizing who’s there as your actual friend and actual help versus who’s there to fill their own benefit and don’t really give two shits about you.
Right. A lot of people are comparing this album to Jay-Z’s American Gangsta because it has the same sort of theme, based around a film. Do you think its going to be any different?
I think it’s a lot different. Just looking at the cover of Jay’s American Gangster and the timing of when American Gangster came out, it gave you a different feel. It almost gave you a soundtrack to the movie versus where Carlito’s Way came out in ’94 so it’s different. [A themed album] was just something that I wanted to do, and to do that I needed something to set that was close to my story.
I actually want to talk a little bit about the leaks that came from Jermaine Dupri’s camp.
Well, I don’t know if they came from him. I stated that on my twitter but I’m not sure. I felt all three of the songs were produced by JD or came from JD’s camp. If something leaks, everything usually leaks. I just didn’t understand how all three of the leaks were just his songs. So I didn’t blame him, I tried to reach out to him but I didn’t have his correct email anymore. I just ended up tweeting about it because when something&rsquo
