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Fabolous

Really Tho

Release date: 2012

From The Soul Tape
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About This Track

Fabolous builds 'Really Tho' around a single, repeating question: what separates the genuine from the performed? The track cycles through a hook that asks who you're aligned with, what you're driving, and why fakeness even exists, before pivoting to verse-length examinations of inauthenticity in social hierarchies, relationships, and the rap game itself. The production by Teddy da Don sits spare enough to let the one-liners land, each couplet a small observation about people who claim what they haven't earned or perform what they don't believe. The song's real subject is contradiction. Fabolous watches people switch their posture the moment stakes arrive, watches bosses who don't work, watches enemies who tell the truth become preferable to friends who lie. He moves between pool-table chat and nightclub scenes, between R&B singers and fashion, always returning to the same diagnosis: the gap between what people say they are and what they actually do. The hook's repetition, "really tho", becomes a kind of exhausted punctuation, the sound of someone who has asked the question enough times to know the answer won't come.

"Really Tho" is a track by Fabolous, from the album The Soul Tape, released 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Fabolous

Fabolous

Lyrics

Really Tho

Yeah

I'm just speaking for myself

And the real niggas like me

[Hook]

If you ain't with a real nigga, then who are you with?

How you ride doesn't matter what kind of car you get?

I love my real bitches, fuck the fake hoes

I be asking God why he even make those?

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

[Verse 1]

Me and my niggas talkin' shit at the pool table

Wanna know who sat these nerds at the cool table?

Who let these unimportant hoes in the VIP?

Who let these little niggas in? I need to see ID

Real real real re really tho

These lames never paid attention so they really owe

I know some R&B bitches that can really blow

Turkey burgers and hot chocolate, really ho?

When shit get real now then it's "I'm just playin'"

When people hating now then it's "I'm just sayin'"

Fake this and fake that got you feeling yourself?

You can't be real with me, you ain't even real with yourself

[Hook]

If you ain't with a real nigga, then who are you with?

How you ride doesn't matter what kind of car you get?

I love my real bitches, fuck the fake hoes

I be asking God why he even make those?

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

[Verse 2]

Me and some fly girls chillin' where the bar is

Wanna know when y'all gon' stop treasuring garbage?

When they gon' get they own and stop minding our biz?

When these Bride of Chucky Dolls became Barbies?

Real re re re I'm really certain

If everybody a boss, then who's really workin'?

If they say they got that raw shit, that really mean

Them white squares is stepped on, Billie Jean

Rather a real enemy than a fake friend

Rather know for sure, than be mistaken

One thing you should know, when you play the game

Lies always change, the truth stay the same

[Hook]

If you ain't with a real nigga, then who are you with?

How you ride doesn't matter what kind of car you get?

I love my real bitches, fuck the fake hoes

I be asking God why he even make those?

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

Real real real re really tho

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From The Soul Tape

2012
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The Soul Tape
The Soul Tape
Fabolous
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2012
  1. —Slow Down
  2. —Leaving You
  3. —Look At Her (You Be Killin' Em Pt. 2)
  4. —Wolves In Sheeps Clothing
  5. —Y'all Don't Hear Me Tho
  6. —That's Not Love
  7. —Pain
  8. —Phone Numbers
  9. —Mo Brooklyn, Mo Harlem, Mo Southside
  10. —Payback Music
  11. —Drugs (Do This to Me)
  12. —Riesling & Rolling Papers
  13. —In The Morning
  14. —Really Tho

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