Fabolous - From Nothing to Something

A ,, Something "or ,, Someone" is Johnathan David Jackson, so Fabolous' real name, not just since yesterday. He can look back on several years in Game back and "From Nothin 'To Somethin'" is his now 4.Album.
His debut work for Def Jam starts strong, right after the intro it goes with "Yep, I'm Back" going on, a damn casual track, on the Fab his skills once again demonstrated presents. To date, the listener may enjoy even more of the excellent Raptechnik the young artist, who lives to remain primarily by Fabolous' gift precisely in time, but already the next song "Change Up" gets the plate a bitter aftertaste. At R & B-heavy! There follows a more poppy song to the next. The feature list with names like Akon, Ne-Yo, T-Pain, Lloyd, Rihanna and Lil'Mo says it all. Half of these R'n'B / rap collaborations have more than enough, but as the title are unfortunately pulled down despite Fabs unequivocally good rape by pop beats and too many vocals on a straight average level. Also lyrically must not expect a lot of variety to. The R'n'B / Rap Tracks report in classical boy band-style of Girls, babies and shorts in all variations and situations. Break Luckily every now and then non-R & B songs of this scheme as z.Bsp. "Return Of The Hustle", which, however, offers only mediocre lyrics about money or "Gangsta Do not Play", which although also acts poplastig but gets awarded by feature guest Junior Reid Reggae influences.
At its peak reached "From Nothin 'To Somethin'" But then in the last third of his Time. Now we finally get back continuously to hear rap without singing, a bit unfortunate but I find that Fabolous manages no more track without feature.
With the well-known single "Diamonds" and the anthem "Brooklyn" with Toprappern Jay-Z and Uncle Murda brought us Fabolous the best songs of the disc equal in succession before it maintain its position as a powerful man in "I'm The Man" wants and ablacht in "Jokes On You" vigorously untalented rappers. In my eyes the best lyrically track can be found at the very end of the record before the bonus track "This Is Family", which is also of good quality. "What should I do" he called and Fabolous rapping in him fan letters (whether these are real or imaginary, I do not) before, where his fans describe him their problems and needs.
Thus, in the end is still done a little compensation for the high pop rap share. Nevertheless, the CD does not come beyond the average Qualtitätsebene and reflects the widespread Kommerzialsierung and adapt to the mainstream of the East Coast recitative again.