Top 66 Fabolous Quotes

I’m very observant. So, my mentor is really basically a lot of people who are just around me and life itself. Just living and going different places and traveling.

Even before I became an artist myself, I always cared about my presentation.

Beyonce is graceful, man. Even her way of checking you is graceful.

I’ve just grown as a person. I think that’s what helped me grow as an artist.

I think people know what I do – they know I’ve been in the game for a minute, but you gotta continuously show that growth and show that you’re bringing something.

D.C. shows me a lot of love.

I’m not just rapping because I like it anymore – this is like almost my career now, you know? Not almost, it is! This is what I feed myself and my family with, so I attack it that way.

I used to be a pretty good player back in the day. But I don’t play basketball too much anymore.

I noticed that what you’re wearing is a representation of yourself and speaks for you before you do.

I really respect Hov’s drive, as well as his whole career and what he’s done for the culture.

Just finding the right balance of career, family, personal goals, personal feelings. All of that is part of life and part of growing up.

That’s the kind of lane that I try to keep my fashion usually in – not too uppity, not too out of the norm, but little touches that make it special.

There’s an art to basketball; there’s a passion to it.

I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, ‘I’m gonna have the illest verse.’

I think that’s where the music business is where it is today because at one point, we were just splurging so much money and it was just extra. Everything was just extra and over did. Now, people are being as creative as they were but they’re not spending $500,000 or a million on a video.

Ne-Yo is just like a writing genius.

Sometimes you have crazy ideas that sound crazy to everybody, but I’m sure everybody has had a crazy idea before. When you pull it off and you don’t look crazy anymore, you look like a genius.

I definitely would like to embark on acting, give it a shot, you know maybe that’s my calling, maybe it’s not.

When I first came in, family life wasn’t at the forefront of your career or who you were as an artist. You was even supposed to be projected as a single man for the public.

I think the worst thing you could do is not shoot the shot. When you shoot you got two options: It can go in or you can miss, and even in the miss you might learn.

I don’t take Twitter that serious. It’s all in good humor. I’ve made fun of people on Twitter and it’s whatever.

I like when videos used to make you sit at home, and you’d watch it and be like in awe like, ‘I wish I was at that place, man. I wanna go on a vacation.’

Its shocking to come from doing freestyles to having the No. 4 album in the country. It pushes me to do better and better so I can get to No. 1.

I am kinda like, if I don’t really know people I am a little passive and a little quiet, and you know most of my friends they know a different side of me, so I guess that’s what kinda Twitter gets to see a little bit, things that I would say around my friends and joke around with.

I won’t change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else’s.

The holiday time is where people slow down a little bit more. You get a chance to really take in an album.

Twitter, I always say is the drunk uncle of my personality, because I say some stuff sometimes that, you know that drunk uncle at the Thanksgiving table, he starts rambling on about, that he shouldn’t have said so sometimes I do that.

The Mary J. Blige song is called ‘My Life.’ It’s kinda like an autobiography song, stating what I’m about and what I’m trying to do and what I’ve done.

A lot of rappers nowadays will say they don’t listen to anybody, but I like to hear what’s going on. I don’t think it affects my music. I still do what I do. I just listen as a fan because I love hip-hop.

I just wanted to make good music that people related to me and said ‘Yo that guy makes good music. When he gives us an effort, it’s good music behind it. It’s great lyrics, it’s witty punchlines, it’s great metaphors.’

I like fashion shows. I like the quick flash of culture and energy.

Part of the passion for me was hearing great music from the very start of it, now I’m one of the people who can give that passion back to somebody.

That’s where my fashion comes from; it comes from versatility. You can mix and manage different things.

I’m definitely a little surprised at what hip-hop was able to do to my life.

In 20 years, a lot of things change, especially in music. From CDs to tapes to vinyl to digital now, you know, a lot changes.

Streetwear is pretty comfortable.

I mean there’s no other feeling than when you hear a great hip-hop song. You feel good. If you lose that as an artist, you lose a part of your passion.

What you grow up listening to makes the kind of person that you are.

I think Twitter is great for showing your personality and just your random thoughts and dropping a jewel on your listeners, fans and followers.

The thing about marriage is that I believe in it, but don’t believe in it. I think sometimes people put that ring and that paper and it messes up a good thing.

I want to work with Nas.

If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates, you know what I mean? That’s the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.

As a celebrity, you have to have some type of peace of your personal life.

I’m a big boxing fan.

LeBron’s a close friend of mine, so I always root for him.

Me and Pusha have always been cool even though we haven’t done many collaborations.

Basketball has a culture to it, it has a swagger to it.

I know a lot of people like mixtape Fab, and albums, to me, you’re speaking to a broader audience sometimes. I take that at hand.

Sometimes in life, your best teacher is experience and going through something to figure it out.

Me and Chainz hang out, we talk. I go to Atlanta, I go to Chainz’s restaurant. Chainz came to my dinner. Chainz is my guy.

Before I was a musician, I drew. The housing projects in Brooklyn weren’t much of a canvas, people didn’t know that I had it in me – but I actually went to an art and design high school.

There’s a song on there called ‘Slow Down,’ and it’s about a girl who could be wifey but is just moving to quick, partying; needs to slow down. A lot of ladies can relate; they might know someone or be that girl.

I remember one time 50 was offering me different things to come and be apart of G-Unit. I didn’t really do it because it was kind of at the time where they were signing Mobb Deep, Ma$e and M.O.P. I didn’t know if I wanted to be up under something.

Part of leaving your legacy is not worrying what everyone is saying about it.

I put too many years in business of me working in this industry for me to be a piece of somebody else’s thing.

Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era – he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer shorts and his sneakers were a different style.

It’s one thing to see the clothes on a rack, but it’s interesting to see how they get brought to life.

I don’t like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise – I think people need to scale back and re-focus on making moments again.

I put a lot in my mixtapes, but I definitely put a lot into my albums as well.

I think growth is a big part of everything, it think even growth for Brooklyn, growth for Downtown Brooklyn is good.

Everybody’s out and you get a lot of friction, a lot of heat in the air. It makes a beautiful disaster and that’s where the ‘Summertime Shootout’ comes from.

I used to to hustle growing up.

I’m more into myself with my family, and my personal life is usually handled inside, it’s not usually public, with opinions, comments, family members involved – them reacting to everything.

I don’t think that marriage is in the future for me, I really don’t.

You gotta claim the crown and the people also gotta crown you, too. It’s not just about somebody saying they king.

Even sometimes, when you’re at home with the family, you need a break from them, really.