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Fabolous

Theme Music

Release date: 24th November 2017

From Friday on Elm Street
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About This Track

Fabolous and Jadakiss trade verses over a Swizz Beatz production that samples Marvin Gaye, the two rappers circling a shared theme: the distance travelled from the bottom. The track moves between school-day memories and present-day swagger, each verse a small narrative of ascent. Fabolous opens with the dropout who made good, then Jadakiss enters with invincibility and the weight of teaching others. The production stays measured, letting the voices sit cleanly in the mix. The hook is minimal, almost skeletal: "this that theme music", repeated as a kind of mantra. What matters is the back-and-forth, the way each rapper sharpens the other's point. Jadakiss leans into menace, invoking horror-film villains as metaphor for the ruthlessness required to survive and prosper. Fabolous counters with flow and precision, his bars about jumpers and bars landing with the ease of someone who has spent years perfecting the craft. By the final verse, both are speaking to the same audience: those still hungry, still climbing.

"Theme Music" is a track by Fabolous, from the album Friday on Elm Street, released 24th November 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Fabolous

Fabolous

Lyrics

Theme Music

[Intro: Swizz Beatz]

Goddamn! Right

Oh this that Freddy and Jason

Smooth it out

[Verse 1: Fabolous & Swizz Beatz]

This that theme music (Woo)

Some back on your deen music (Talk to 'em, Fab)

Told Swizz gotta put the top down (Hey)

Drive by my old school just to make my Dean lose it, hah

Always said I'd be a dropout (Damn)

Yeah, only right I bring the drop out (Woo)

Look, and everyday is first class

Not bad for the kid who never made his first class

{*school bell ringing*} Yeah

[Verse 2: Jadakiss & Swizz Beatz]

I'm in homeroom with dime sacks (Jada)

If you miss something, rewind that

Memories take you back to the time

Take the time to remember that you can't get the time back

Now your boy's invincible

Got me teaching niggas principles

It just make me wanna holla

You can't even get a dollar 'cause I can't talk sense to you (Owww)

[Verse 3: Fabolous & Swizz Beatz]

They wanna front 'til you jump in the Bach

Shawty named Rosa, jump in the back

House party days, you'd get jumped in the back

Nowadays the jump offs just jump in the back

Swish, my jumper is back (Oh)

The bars is up, high jumper is back (Whoop)

You gon' make one of  the gremlins jump from the back

Put the strap over the shoulder like the jumpers is back, yeah

[Verse 4: Jadakiss & Swizz Beatz]

The Eurostep, the German ruger (Woo)

You already know Voorhees (Kill, kill, kill) and Krueger (Hahahaha)

Kill shit, still move keys through Uber (Huh)

Real shit, still gotta feed the shooters (Goddamn)

First comes the torture, then they abuse ya (Woo)

Are you the victim? Are you the accuser? (Huh)

Nowadays the dealers worse than the users (Oh)

Besides that the system thirsty to lose us, yeah

(Freddy and Jason)

[Verse 5: Fabolous & Swizz Beatz]

Flow smooth over the Marvin

Show and prove over the talking (Yeah)

They told me as a young G

Even when you hungry never move like you starving

Any questions, asking above (Woo)

Any problems, mask and the gloves (Ayy)

Jason and Freddy basically ready

I'm like Masika and Alexis how I'm chasing the fetti

(Goddamn) Ugh

[Verse 6: Jadakiss & Swizz Beatz]

That's all I do (Woo)

Please don't make me call my crew

Life's a bitch, don't make me call my boo

They get the drop then them killers they'll fall right through (Blaow)

Yeah, I'm in the projects hella late (Damn)

Shooting dice, playing spades and they selling plates (4-5's)

The love is for free but they selling hate (Ayy)

Either selling weight to you or you selling weight?

(Goddamn), yeah

[Chorus: Fabolous]

This that theme music

Some back on your deen music

This that theme music

Some back on your deen music

[Outro: Swizz Beatz]

Goddamnit! This that Freddy and Jason, huh?

This that Freddy and Jason, huh?

It's about to get ugly in these streets

That Fab, that Jada, that Swizz

Middle finger to your haters

C'mon man get a plate, get your own plate

Get a seat at the table, if you lucky, huh

Back on that thing, back on that B.S. business

Can't even walk the streets

'Bout to make it so y'all can't even walk the streets, huh?

Put the business suit up and put the hood on

Put the chains on, huh, goddamnit!

Smooth it out

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Track details

From Friday on Elm Street

2017
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Album
Friday on Elm Street
Friday on Elm Street
Fabolous
Release year
2017
  1. —Talk About It
  2. —F vs. J Intro
  3. —Ground Up
  4. —Theme Music
  5. —Stand Up
  6. —Principles
  7. —Nightmares Ain't As Bad
  8. —I Pray
  9. —Soul Food
  10. —All About It
  11. —Ice Pick
  12. —Stand Up (Remix)

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Fabolous, Jadakiss, Marvin Gaye, Swizz Beatz
Producer
Swizz Beatz
Assistant Recording Engineer
Aneef Sheriff
Mastering Engineer
Chris Gehringer
Mixing Engineer
Steve “Rockstar” Dickey
Recording Engineer
Dayzel the Machine, Steve “Rockstar” Dickey
Video Director
Gerard Victor
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