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| Thephoenix |
 Since Boy Meets World dropped into my radar a month ago, I’ve discovered how much magic stretches clean across the tracklist, and I was planning to include it on my year-end list. Yet more immediate praise is due: critics rarely reach this far, but the 20-year-old Fashawn’s first label effort might be the most impressive solo debut from a minor since Nas’s Illmatic.With the wrong producer and a smidgen less maturity, this Fresno prodigy could have easily been another wayward hood rapper with a blessed gift for wasted wit. Instead — with such muses as Alchemist and Evidence guiding him, and a flawless Grammy-worthy beat blanket courtesy of Exile — he touches every base needed for a home run without ever swinging outside his strike zone....full text |
| Culturebully |
| There couldn’t be a more fitting title for Fashawn’s debut album than Boy Meets World. The phenom from Fresno has been rising to the surface of West Coast hip hop like yeast over the last two years. Not only does Fash have a strong string of mixtapes, but he’s also been featured on a handfull of five star tracks with other artists. With all of the work that he’s put in, it only makes sense for Fashawn to formerly introduce himself to the world with a proper full length release. Backed by Exile’s beautiful and boisterous production, Fashawn gives the world of hip hop one of the most sonically sounding albums of 2009. To those who might feel as though hip hop has been lacking something, this is the breath of fresh air, and the return to youth that you’ve been looking for. The listener is hit right from the jump on the album’s introduction. Fashawn turns down the way of the streets so that he can pursue his dreams of rhyming; he blasts off like a cannon: “When I ride the drums I outshine the sun/brainstorm, I provide the floods/I can turn a whole metropolis to a peninsula/Ink pen emperor slang remain infinite/I came to re-arrange the game from all angles/Paid my dues, made my move to Lost Angels/Rock like Aesop, sound like fables/Kerosene flow melt microphone cables.” Exile’s dope sample of the Black Star classic “Definition” gives Fashawn a canvas to paint with great animosity, “My patterns is unmatched/I leave emcees hunch-backed with one rap, guaranteed no come back/I run laps around em’/roll like Dunlup tires/Made a lotta niggas retire, I be your highness.”...full text |
| Djbooth |
| They say that pressure makes diamonds, and if that’s true than it goes a long way towards explaining Fashawn’s brilliance. Placed in a group home by child services at the age of 12 while his father was incarcerated and his mother struggled with a drug addiction, Fashawn devoted himself to becoming an ill MC in order to survive. Mission accomplished. At the not-so-tender age of 20 the man has to be considered one of the best young lyricists alive. By contrast, when I was 20 I was mostly focused on figuring out how to get into bars without an ID. Hey, we can’t all be great rappers, just ask Yung Berg. Sorry, back to the lecture at hand. Fashawn’s been steadily building buzz around his always quality rhymestyle since the age of 17 with a seemingly never-ending series of mixtapes and freestyles. There’s a reason he’s graced our pages at DJBooth an astounding 14 times in the last year. Thankfully he’s now finally ready for the spotlight with the release of his new album Boy Meets World. Produced entirely by Exile, Boy Meets World is the mark of a man who’s determined to not just be good, but great. How good is this album? Let me put it this way. My only real complaint is the complete lack of Boy Meets World (the show) references. Fashawn, you couldn’t have worked in at least one Mr. Feeny or Ben Savage reference? Come on man....full text |
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