Fabolous tries to find the way

e mixtape hype and underground acclaim, Brooklyn’s own lyrical veteran, Fabolous, has yet to give fans an album that shows he is worth the hoopla. “Loso’s Way” is a seemingly autobiographical affair that displays Fab – or Loso depending on who you ask in many roles including (gasp) a father.

“Pachanga” is a telling track about close friends and lovers gone astray (“I was Billy D, smooth cappa really street/Really she attract n***** like the A Milli beat”), and protects his position as NYC’s elite on “The Way” (“When I was runnin’ the city you was learnin’ to walk/So I watched you n***** take they first steps/And I was happy for ya, Daddy was clappin’ for ya/But, wasn’t for me prolly wouldn’t have happened for ya”).

“Stay” displays a side of Fabolous that we haven’t seen before as he speaks about his son while taking his biological father to task (“I give a f*** about hip-hop’s new beef/I was more excited when my son grew teeth).

The excellent “Money Goes, Honey Stay” features Jay-Z on the chorus. Here Fab shows proof of what his fans already knew: He’s an exciting and vivid MC. The same goes for the haunting track, “Lullaby” produced by The Alchemist which portrays the more lyrical