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Fabo is super weird. His voice is a Funkadelic sing-growl and his songs are mostly about encounters with women, told in step-by-step detail—the woman posessing almost supernatural qualities that forever change how he thinks. Why is there still no solo album, recording industry? After the jump check Nick Barat’s Gen F on Fabo from F41. Rocket Man Fabo keeps Atlanta cosmic Story Nick Barat Photography Bryan Meltz Last year, the ultra-minimal doont doont SNAP, doont doont SNAP of D4L’s “Laffy Taffy” morphed from obscure Atlanta single to national phenomenon in a matter of months … , generating million-selling ringtones and ubiquitous, never-ending radio play. The song’s highly vocal detractors appeared just as fast. “We would go into radio stations on promo, and the DJs would think it’s a joke,” says D4L member Fabo. “‘Man I didn’t even like this music,’ or whatever, ‘but my kids keep playing it and people keep calling in.’ That’s a compliment?” Legions of “Laffy Taffy” haters might have been skeptical of what they saw as a novelty song—or, in the case of certain middle-aged New York MCs and DJs, the fact that they haven’t come up with anything half as catchy in years—but they were sleeping hard on the track’s star. With his unpredictable sing-rap delivery and outrageous aesthetic (that’s him in the video flipping his striped-socked legs behind his back), Fabo drenched “Laffy Taffy” with gallons of personality, and his perspective gives the rest of D4L’s Down For Life LP a wildcard charm.
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