Growing up in the Bay Area, Diamonté Quiava Valentin Harper, now known to fans as Saweetie, listened to 106.1 Kmel and Wild 949 on her drive to school with her dad every morning. And like clockwork, Turf Talk's "It's a Slumper," her dad's favorite song, could be heard blasting from the 808 speakers in the trunk as they made their way across the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. At home, the family computer was riddled with viruses, thanks to her LimeWire downloads of Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma's mixtapes. This was Saweetie's first introduction to hip-hop.
"Both of my parents were really big hip-hop heads. My dad played a lot of the greats, Tupac, Biggie, but I'm from the Bay, so I grew up listening to Mac Dre, Too $hort, Mac Mall, and Mistah F.A.B.," the 30-year-old rapper tells Popsugar. "The Bay Area has so many great hip-hop artists from every era, but that's...
"Both of my parents were really big hip-hop heads. My dad played a lot of the greats, Tupac, Biggie, but I'm from the Bay, so I grew up listening to Mac Dre, Too $hort, Mac Mall, and Mistah F.A.B.," the 30-year-old rapper tells Popsugar. "The Bay Area has so many great hip-hop artists from every era, but that's...
- 8/1/2023
- by Monica Sisavat Solís
- Popsugar.com
This story originally ran in the July 2020 issue of Rolling Stone.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II walks into a downtown Oakland diner carrying a half-dozen shoeboxes stacked to his chin and makes his way — carefully — to a booth. He’s barely gotten settled when a fortysomething dude at the next table calls over to him: “Excuse me, I hate to bother you …” You can see Abdul-Mateen tense up ever so slightly, as if waiting to see whether this guy is a fan of HBO’s Watchmen (on which Abdul-Mateen played Dr. Manhattan...
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II walks into a downtown Oakland diner carrying a half-dozen shoeboxes stacked to his chin and makes his way — carefully — to a booth. He’s barely gotten settled when a fortysomething dude at the next table calls over to him: “Excuse me, I hate to bother you …” You can see Abdul-Mateen tense up ever so slightly, as if waiting to see whether this guy is a fan of HBO’s Watchmen (on which Abdul-Mateen played Dr. Manhattan...
- 8/24/2021
- by Jonah Weiner
- Rollingstone.com
[[tmz:video id="0_sjbl92h2"]] Pro football is just "not fun" for Marshawn Lynch anymore ... so says his famous rap star cousin who's 100% positive Beast Mode is Not returning to the NFL. Marshawn's cuz Mistah F.A.B. sat down with with "The Breakfast Club" -- when Charlamagne Tha God asked about rumors that Lynch is thinking about coming back to the league. "He's done. It's not fun to him no more," F.A.B. said. Long story short ... F.A.B.
- 6/2/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Marshawn Lynch definitely had a front row seat for a fistfight between two crews at an S.F. nightclub -- but Stayed Out Of The Ruckus ... at least, that's how it appears in pics obtained by TMZ Sports. As we previously reported, the Seattle Seahawks running back was at Mezzanine in San Fran with his cousin Mistah F.A.B. -- when F.A.B.'s crew got into it with DJ Mustard's crew. F.A.B.
- 6/10/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Beast Mode was switched to the "off" position at a San Francisco nightclub this weekend ... so says a famous rapper who tells us Marshawn Lynch was in the building during a heated altercation between two rival rap crews, but the Rb kept his nose clean. TMZ Sports spoke with Mistah F.A.B. ... who was at Mezzanine nightclub when things got heated between his crew and D.J. Mustard's crew during a Sunday night event called "Young California.
- 6/9/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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