Jaboy Fry
Written by lupethefiasco on Friday, 8 of August , 2008 at 1:05 pm
When Nas came out with Hip-Hop Is Dead in 2006, I agreed with him. But now more than ever it seems that there is this influx of new, young, intelligent rappers talking about stuff besides girls and money. You know… The Cool Kids, Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco, Cadence Weapon, etc. Add Jaboy Fry to this ever growing list.
Born in Charleston, West Virginia Aaron Fryson was surrounded by music at an early age. He started rapping early on as well, on a political level at NAACP conventions. Aaron (Jaboy) sights his influences as R&B/Soul icons Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Marvin Gaye. He also says being a drummer for 15 years has also helped his rapping career. He has teamed up with producer Bone 40 who was born in a small town in The Netherlands, to create Jaboy Fry, a fantastic up and coming rapper.
Jaboy is fun, smart, and has a ton of energy that is apparent in everyone of his songs. He often moves back and forth between silly and serious. In “Crazy Gurl” he raps about dealing with a girl who has gone off the reservation. He uses sound samples of a guy screaming “Take the money woman, just leave me alone,” which I found very entertaining. But he also turns serious on his song “Doc Take Me Back” which is a song about love for old hip hop, and the trash being produced now. He has one really smart line that goes like this: “Take me back before black on black, before crack hit the blacks, and now blacks hate blacks.” But then he switches up and says something like “Rap ain’t what it was, rappers claiming they’re thugs, these raps as gay as gay love, gay as Cam’ron rolling on pink dubs.” These are just a few lines of the witty, smart, lyrics of Jaboy Fry.
Category: Hip-Hop
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