I’d bet the pioneers of hip-hop could never imagine that artists would be so successful when they created it. Hip-hop can never be wrong because it’s constantly evolving. What is right and wrong with hip-hop as it stands today? “Laffy Taffy” was the original fastest selling ringtone, actually earning us a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. The ringtone era is dominant because of D4L… We changed the game. My music is hip-hop, and right now hip-hop is even greater because of me. It’s like me saying the competition can’t keep up! I actually got my inspiration for the song from a previous visit when I performed at BMO Music Festival in Japan. My latest track is called “I Just Gotta Dance.” It’s a song filled with a variety of dances… It’s like me coming to an epiphany of all my dances and me. The D4L reunion is definitely in the works.

The Yokohama all-nighter this time doubles as a fundraiser for victims of the Tohoku earthquake. Metropolis reached the 29-year-old Fabo, who recently had drug and gun charges dropped against him and is now in college, ahead of his visit for Positive’s latest Jewelz event.

Courtesy of Positive ProductionWith mainstream promoters shying away from all but the safest hip-hop acts, it’s often been left to expat American Broderick “Mo” Morris’s Positive Production to introduce edgier rap artists to Japan.įabo (real name Lefabian Williams) gained renown as the flamboyant frontman of D4L, a quartet of rappers from the gritty Atlanta projects best known for their 2006 number-one smash “Laffy Taffy.” The song symbolized so-called “snap” music, a booty-shaking rap derivative built on tracks stripped down to bare-bones rhythms and snapping, hence the term.

Bmo snaps song