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I seriously think Fabolous was trying to break a record for most pushed back mixtape ever.  Wasn’t this tape supposed to drop New Years Day?  Here we are 2 months later.  Anyhow, there’s no need to complain about free music.  let’s just get to gettin.  Hit the jump for Fab & DJ Drama’s latest Gangsta Grillz mixtape.

Tracklist x Download link after the jump!

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Here’s a behind the scenes look at Red Cafe’s new video with Loso. This track still bangs for me.

Loso live at Webster Hall in NYC going through “Say Ahh”, “Throw It In The Bag (Remix)”, “Swag Surfin’”, “There He Go”, and more. The Funeral Service mixtape on New Years.

Off Amerie’s Love and War…

SideBar: The Fabolous mixtape The Funeral Service: There is no Competition 2 has been pushed to New Years, just a heads up.

Exactly what you’d expect from a Red Cafe/Fab collab.

DOWNLOAD: Red Cafe – I’m Ill ft. Fabolous (MP3)

Why waste another post for the same thing? More people doing their thing over the Trey Songz single “Say Ahh”. One’s labeled a freestyle, the other a remix.

DOWNLOAD: Young Jeezy – Say Ahh Freestyle (MP3)

DOWNLOAD: Trey Songz – Say Ahh (Remix) ft. Ace Hood, Juelz Santana & Fabolous (MP3)

Here’s a new cut from Game & Fab, which has an insane amount of Empire & sample clearance tags.  Maybe this will be on The R.E.D. album?  Props to Illy.  **UPDATE: LESS Tags (No Empire tags) version added (still has “sample clearance” tags…deal with it).

DOWNLOAD: Game – Never Stop Hustlin’ ft. Fabolous [No Empire Tags] (MP3)

Here comes the official video for the Fabolous’ Kobe-assisted joint off Loso’s Way. Thoughts or opinions on the visuals?

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Diddy recruits Rick Ross for the remix to his Dirty Money hit, Angels. On top of that, he recruits Jim Jones, Fabolous and Red Cafe to remix his Dirty Money’s track, Love Come Down. Links for both below, folks.

Sidebar: Quite honestly, Fabolous did the damn thing and I am quite pleased with his efforts on this track. However, I am looking forward to the Lupe Fiasco remix to Angels more so than anything, especially a remix from Ross.

DOWNLOAD: Dirty Money – Angels Remix ft. Rick Ross (MP3)

DOWNLOAD: Dirty Money – Love Come Down Remix ft. Jim Jones, Fabolous & Red Cafe (MP3)

Fabolous speaks about touring, twitter, his reality show, and a mixtape that he is working on with DJ Drama.  The tape is believed to be dropping sometime in late December, possibly around Christmas.

In Love & War drops November 3rd, but I guess it leaked already. Here’s the Loso feature on it.

DOWNLOAD: Amerie – More Than Love ft. Fabolous (MP3)

Looks like Juelz Santana and Fabolous decided to hop on the Trey Songz track, Say Aah. Not sure how you feel about the track, but hearing Santana and Fab on it makes it that much better. Enjoy the link below.

DOWNLOAD: Trey Songz – Say Aah Remix ft. Juelz Santana & Fabolous

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And the #8 hottest MC in the game goes to Fabolous. Again, we will get one a day through Friday and they will reveal #5-#1 this Sunday, during Diddy’s Starmaker.

Courtesy of MTV:

Fabolous started his Loso’s Way campaign by telling the world that it was “his time,” and the boy from Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood lived up to his claim. Loso’s Way — a concept project inspired in part by the gangster film “Carlito’s Way” — became his first #1 LP on the Billboard albums chart, selling nearly 99,000 units in its first week of release. All year, we’ve been hearing “It’s Loso, in case you didn’t know, so …” for a reason: Fab never runs out of ammo with his tireless punch lines and swag!

Right out the gate, he had big radio and club records with “Throw It in the Bag” (and its sweltering remix, “Everything, Everywhere, Everyday”) and his latest, “Money Goes, Honey Stay” (He had the pull to not just get the beat and chorus for the record from Jay-Z, but he also scored a rare Hov cameo in the video). The rest of the album is bone-crunching: his unprecedented candor about his newborn son on “Stay,” the playful pathos of “Last Time” and the outright audacity on the “The Way (Intro).” He didn’t just play on his home field, either: Loso also came with numerous but diverse guest appearances alongside Rick Ross, The-Dream, Red Cafe, Ryan Leslie, Slim from 112, Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo and Jamie Foxx.

Like a lot of our other Hottest MCs, Fab has utilized the Web — but not just to give insight on what’s going on with his career, but he’s also introduced his followers to Fabolous the comedian. He’s a one-man Def Comedy Jam, joking on everyone from Bow Wow and T-Pain to Flo Rida. A testament to Loso’s popularity, when he speaks on topics on his Twitter page (such as Lil Mama’s VMA stage-crash), they become trending topics.

So how are you feeling about the list so far? Raekwon at number 10, 50 Cent at number 9 and now Fabolous at number 8.

In the video above, Fabolous talks with Good Day New York, covering where he is from, his musical style, Loso’s Way, violence in hip hop and more.

Loso’s Way is in stores now. Have it? Good. Not yet? Go out and support.

Hit the break to see Fabolous’ performance.

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In the video above, Ryan Leslie and Fabolous talk about working on a super project that includes both Leslie and Fabolus, along with Ne-Yo.

We’re talking about a triple-team collaboration that’s really gonna hurt the game,” Leslie told MTV recently in New York. “Your boy Fab, the boy Ne-Yo and yours truly on the board. It’s really gonna put a hurting on everybody.”

“This guy is a creative genius,” Fab said of Leslie. “I told y’all we was working.”

Loso and Leslie said the trio are open to collaborating with others on the project. ”The table is open,”Leslie said. ”If you’re bringing something to the table, you can break bread.”

“You just gotta bring some good food to the table,” Fab co-signed.

“It’s about conceptualizing,” Ryan added about how the LP will shape up. ”It’s not gonna be a project that’s thrown together. It’s gonna be a real roundtable, and we’re gonna talk about really putting something in the atmosphere that contributes something that’s never been done before.”

Thoughts? Opinions?