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After years of hard work, Fash is finally realizing the success he deserves. The Ecology album release concerted featured hip hop legends paying their dues including Nas, Dilated Peoples and Everlast
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Ironic how Fashawn would one day work his way to an XXL cover appearance
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Fashawn’s debut album “Boy Meets World” is a certified classic. It’s too early to tell, but The Ecology very well could end up in that category as well
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After years of anticipating, The Ecology was finally set to release on September 30th 2014. However as the release date approached it was pushed back yet again due to sample clearances.
As of January 2015 we are yet to get another release date
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Despite putting out one the best albums you’ll ever hear (Boy Meets World) in 2009, it took until Fashawn was 25, in 2014 to get some of the recognition he has deserved all along, signing to Nas
15 minutes of fame explains the tendency in the rap industry to be hot for a short time period after releasing a song or album, and then fans moving on to the next artist in line
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Success really is what you make it. After Boy Meets World, Fashawn got a ton of accolades and notoriety, making the cover of XXL. He had the chance to hop into the mainstream but chose to remain a successful underground artist
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In this case, grizzly means grind.
But also, Fashawn frequently refers to his hometown of Fresno as “Grizzly City”, a reference to the minor league baseball team the Fresno Grizzlies
Doesn’t he mean that he “hibernated” like a grizzly does ? Plus, he says during the 2nd verse: “Why it’s hard to hibernate in my Hood”