The NBA Playoffs are in full swing and so is Fabolous’ NBA Friday Night Freestyle Series.
Coming off the release of his most recent one, “The World Is Yours” and last year’s release of his latest album, The Young OG Project, Fab recently spoke with Billboard about basketball and his NBA freestyle series.
“[I do it every] week. I wait til Friday,” he explained. “I listen to the beats all week. I listen to ’90s joints, I’ve got a ’90s playlist. And I listen to see which joints come in to….Towards the end of the week, I start saying, ‘This one sounds like a vibe I want to go to.’ And then by Friday, I start really putting it together. So thats why it kinda comes out late sometimes. Because I actually sit in on it on Friday. I don’t want it to be premeditated. Started on Monday and Tuesday and then put out Friday. I want that organic Friday energy.”
The Brooklyn native also named a few athletes who’ve responded to his freestyles with approval.
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“Mostly, it’s just been showing love like, ‘Yo man, I heard you use my…'” Fab described. “The other day, Dez Bryant [pulls out phone, scrolls through]. Oh here. The other day Dez Bryant hit me here, ‘yo just to let you know fam, you’re snapping on everything.’ The guys, they love hearing their name and stuff like that. Victor Cruz, that’s another guy, he heard it and was like, ‘Yo man, that was hilarious.'”
Finally, Fabolous talked about his relationship with LeBron James and says he is annoyed when people “bandwagon” onto the basketball superstar depending on his success/what team he’s on.
“LeBron’s a close friend of mine, so I always root for him,” he said when asked about the Cavalier small forward. “I never was the bandwagon LeBron fan. When he went to Miami…you know he’s still my boy and I want to see him be successful, but I hated that everybody just kind of like bandwagon [fanned] LeBron. But at the same time, I had a lot of love for him.”
Fabolous also spoke about how his New York teams fared in the NBA Playoffs and says the Cleveland Cavaliers have the best shot at winning The Finals.
