FABOLOUS
From Nothin' to Somethin'
Review by: Marlow "Low" Scruggs





The Brooklyn-born John Jackson, aka Fabolous is back with the release of his long-awaited fourth album and possible street classic "From Nothin' to Somethin'." Believe me when I say, "This album is full of hits." Stand out tracks include the lead single "Diamonds" featuring Young Jeezy, the smoothed-out "Make Me Better" featuring Ne-Yo and the street anthem "Brooklyn" featuring Jay-Z and Uncle Murda. But the hot banga "Change Up" featuring singer, producer Akon happens to be that track that'll have you wearing out your rewind buttons. Fabolous' flow compliments the bass heavy, piano and horn driven track while Akon does his thing in the singing department.

This album has an abundance of features, as a matter of fact there are only two tracks that don’t have a feature and one of those is the intro. Fabolous along with the powers that be have actually committed feature over-kill on this project. Feature artists include: Akon, Ne-Yo, T-Pain, Swizz Beatz, Junior Reid, Lloyd, Rihanna, Young Jeezy, Jay-Z, Uncle Murder, Red Café, Lil’ Mo, and a few others but I’m sure you get the point.

Overall the album's temperature reading is at 104 degrees. However, I would've liked to have heard an album with Fabolous doing more of a solo thing. But in the "must go platinum" era in which the music industry currently resides, who does that?