Fabolous was then featured on several DJ Clue mixtapes, as well as mixtapes with Roc-A-Fella artists. Fabolous and N.O.R.E. rapped over the instrumental to The Lox’s Money, Power & Respect, and DJ Clue subsequently signed Fabolous to his record label, Desert Storm Records. He was invited to rap live on American record producer and music executive DJ Clue’s radio show, then on New York City radio station Hot 97. The misspelling was unintentional Jackson originally intended to be simply called “Fabulous” but incorrectly spelled it during a freestyle and it stuck. In the early years of his career, he rapped under the name Fabolous Sport, in reference to Ralph Lauren’s Polo Sport line, however this was later shortened to simply Fabolous. While in his senior year of high school, Jackson began to pursue a career in hip hop music. He grew up in Breevort Houses in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Fabolous was born John David Jackson on Novemand is of Dominican and African-American descent.
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