Fabolous Pulls From His Decade Long Career For His Next LP

Fabolous may have a baby face, but the Brooklyn MC is working on his fifth album and is already 10 years deep into his career, having first freestyled for DJ Clue in 1998.

"I don't ever try to brag about that, because I want people to remember the youngness," he told a source earlier this week, laughing.

But the lyricist said he has matured as an artist, as he's working on his untitled next project, which he told the source recently will be based on a film (he's still hush on exactly what movie).

'Loso did explain that he's trying to take pieces from each of his previous albums, along with the movie concept, to pull together what he hopes will be his best album yet.

"I just want to show the growth a little bit," he said. "I started learning a little more. My first album was my baby. It was just something to be able to come out and express myself. I want to still keep the rawness of that. My second album, they were saying that sophomore jinx is in front of you, so I wanted to come with hits. I figured people knew my name [by now], so I had to come with big songs. Real Talk, I was in a different place. I grew up. I wasn't the same kid I came in as. This was becoming my career. I wasn't just rapping to rap. I had to respect it in that light. I have to keep that in mind. It's not only my hobby, it pays my bills, and that keeps you motivated too. My last album was sort of like motivational music. I was trying to make music that was relatable. The title, From Nothing to Something, was a motivation to not settle, to try to get more."

Fab plans to release a single soon from his next album, which he hopes will be released in September. In the meantime, he's out on the road with OneRepublic. He explained how he's touring with a live band for the first time and said the experience has been eye-opening.

"I played with a band once or twice in my career," he said. "But because I'm on a college tour, I felt like it would be a little different to bring a band into play and see how the songs sound.

"We had some rehearsals, and they came in and went through it, and that's how you find out if you like them or not, but they hit it on key," he added. "It sounded dope. It just sounds crazy. It gives you a different energy performing."