Before Fabolous became the musician he is today, the Brooklyn rapper was actually an artist. In a new interview with Billboard, the Roc Nation crooner went into detail saying, “The housing projects in Brooklyn weren’t much of a canvas, people
didn’t know that I had it in me — but I actually went to an art and design high school.” In the video above, Fabolous takes us to Brooklyn Museum’s “Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks” exhibit where we’re presented with Basquiat poetry in which Fabolous takes a liking to.
“[Basquiat’s] composition books, those are the same books I used for school,” Fabolous says. “And even though he didn’t think of himself as a poet, a lot of rappers write down ideas and verses in the same way he did.”
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As far as sneakers go, Fabolous takes us Brooklyn Museum’s new “Rise of Sneaker Culture” exhibit where we see the first All-Star pancake-batter-colored Converses and the vintage Jordan 1s.
“Sneakers are a part of the hip-hop look, going back to Run-D.M.C. You’d see artists and look down at their feet.”
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