Lil Fabes, also known as Fabian Jamal
Rennalls JR, is back. The rapper everyone loves is now releasing his first
album in just under 5 years, down to him getting sent to St Louis prison. The
22 year old will be releasing his album later this month. The album consists of
12 songs that tells the story about his life whilst growing up on Colden
Avenue, in the Bronx of New York. The artist has covered the dark times in his
relationships between him and his mother, and the struggles between the gang
crimes that surrounded him. This news has stunned fans and got them screaming;
people have been waiting years for this and now the King is coming back. Along
with the album, Lil Fabes announced he would be touring in early 2018, starting
in his home state then moving over America.
His Music Career started off, when he found
the love for making beats on his old DJ Set in his bedroom and practicing his
rapping in his old, dusty mirror, cramped in his childhood bedroom. When he
realized he had talent at such a young age of 14, he sent endless amount of
raps and beats off to various records labels, radios and other artists so he
could be noticed and hoped to sign a deal. However, nothing major worked out
for him; apart from one small radio station in his local area, which played
music for up coming artist. Months past and nothing came about; Fabian still
sent his music in to record stations in hope of finding a break through, but
again nothing major happened. He then started to think music wasn't for him and
should go and work at his granddads printing company. On the 28th January 2012,
at the age of 17 his dream became a reality. As Jay Z was the first to realize
his talent after hearing his short rap, ‘life’s not long enough’. Jay Z soon
signed him up to his record label, Roc Nation. Later that year Lil Fabes
released his first mix tape ‘Born a Winner’. This mix tape shocked many hip-hop
fans, his distinctive voice stood out from everyone else and everyone loved it.
Soon after that he released his second mix tape ‘They didn’t see me coming’,
Fabian said that this was the mix tape to prove himself, to show the music
industry he meant business, and it’s fair to say, he sure did that.
Many months past and he brought out a few
songs and also clabbed with his ‘father figure’ Jay Z and also Lil Wayne. His
name was growing massively in the industry, and in mid 2013 he was about to get
much bigger. With the release of his first album, Dark Sky Paradise, he almost
hit the number one spot in the charts, but was beaten by the one and only Kanye
West. Everyone loved Lil Fabes; and when his first tour sale came on fans went
crazy. The tour took place around America, Starting in New York then moving
across the states. Whilst being on tour his fame grew and many more people fell
in love with him, including many other artists.
2013 had been one the best years for his
music life and he wanted it to go out with a bang, as a result of his he
released his second album in late December, which was shared his other huge
names such as Drake and Kanye West. 2014 then came and Lil Fabes was getting
noticed for the wrong reasons, he had moved to Los Angeles and found him self
getting into gang trouble, doing smalls burglaries and gun crimes. But this
didn’t stop him from making his fans happy, he was still producing bangers,
especially the song ‘dollar’ with A$AP Rocky that hit number one. In late March
that year Fabes and the Sniper Gang were caught when attempting to a robbery
job. This then saw Fabes getting arrested and caught with possession drugs,
dangerous weapons and the obvious. He was then sentence to 3 and half years in
prison. This was extremely bad news for fans and many of them went crazy over
it. However, it wasn’t all-bad as he sentence was shorted then all the other
members in the gang. Whilst he was in prison a lot of his rappers friends and
other fans gave him major support, and he even had the chance of recording a
song with the well-known artist, Future.
Later this year, he will be making his come
back, as he gets released on April 11th. From his latest tweet he has announced he
promises a ‘banging’ new album with special features. Also he has announced
another tour which he describes will be the ‘best tour ever’ and will be joined
by the likes of future, Lil Uzi Vert and metro booming. As well as that, Lil
Fabes will be performing at Leeds/Reading fest in August 2017.
The new album will be having 12 songs,
which all tell the story of how he grew up in New York. The fans will get an
insight in his struggles as a young teenager and his problems involving gun
crimes and his mum. Lil Fabes, had spoken to us and told us that this album
will be his best yet, as he is telling a story extremely close to his heart.
A few songs from the album have already
came out on apple music as a taster, these songs are, “Left Cheek, right cheek’
featuring Travis Scott, and ‘Murda’ featuring A$AP Rocky. His fans are already
going crazy over these songs, and cant wait for the album to drop.
In our exclusive interview with Lil Fabes,
we asked him what his plans are after this album, he then told us, “I am
currently planning something big, which involves many stars and many new big
hits, all my fans will love it”. So for all you Lil Fabes lovers, the best is
yet to come.
We also asked the star whether he will be
touring in the UK anytime soon, he responded with, “well of course, I want to
please all my fans and I love the UK, so you’ll all get to see me, and I’m
defiantly going to the Leeds/Reading Festival this year so be ready for that,
because its gonna bang!’
The question on everyone’s mind is, whys
the new album called Katrina? Well it is abit random but there’s a special
reason behind it. We asked Fabian and this is what he said, “As I’ve said
before, this albums very close to my heart and I wanted to keep the title like
that, so I named it after the beautiful woman that brought me into this life.
We haven’t always got on, but she raised me and I wouldn’t be here without her,
I respect and love her so much, so I had to name it after my mother, Katrina
Louisa Rennalls.”.
Fan review by Cam Quinn: Lil Fabes new album is one of my Favorites, i can listen to this almost anywhere when I'm in the mood. I love the way that he has told the story of his childhood through the use of his lyrics and it has made me feel like i was there growing up with him. I can't wait to go see him live at Leeds!
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