DX: Are the Hip Hop cops in New York City watching you guys?
F: The Hip Hop cops, they actually do come to my functions and stuff here. Everything we go to there’s a shitload of cops there. So I don’t understand how they accuse some of these things of even going down. They accuse everybody of stuff and nobody’s been arrested, nobody’s been charged with any of the stuff that they’re saying that people are responsible for. If you go on record and would say that we’re responsible for it; I don’t understand why we haven’t been brought in on charges against us if cops can say that this is stuff that [actually happened]?

I never let any of that change what I do. I still keep the same friends around me. I still continue to make music, me and my artists that are in Street Family. If anything what we try to do is turn that negative into a positive by making some good music and use all of that publicity that they throwing on our name and make it a positive. Maybe a few months from now [when] they’re gonna hear this Street Family compilation coming out, some of that publicity will wash off on the compilation.

DX: You said that you haven’t made really any changes, but I think there was one interview where you said after the Sebastian Telfair incident [click to read] you kinda did clean house in the crew a little bit.
F: I didn’t clean [house]. Like, I didn’t stop hanging out [with Street Fam]. That situation woke me up to knowing that things can happen if you leave the window open for it to happen. One of the reasons me even getting shot that night was me walking to a parking lot, which is something that I had never really done much anyway. But now [it’s] more of a case where if I’m coming out I’m gonna just have my car meet me at where I’m coming out at, not me go out and walk to a parking lot where somebody could be waiting to do you some wrong. So it’s little things in that area that I tightened up, not really saying, "Yo, I’m cutting off my friends because they didn’t get my car or something like that."

DX: Did the subsequent stabbing death of your friend, Shamel McKinney, [lead to] any changes [in] your decision making?
F: That let me know how much they sensationalize things that go on [around me].

DX: ‘Cause that [incident] was also tied to this whole kinda [Street Fam] thing [in] that he was trying to jack somebody.
F: Yeah, and they just sensationalized that whole story, man. It’s so sorry that somebody lost they life and at the end of their life while their family is grieving the newspapers and stuff are trying to make him out as some kind of robber and saying that he was trying to rob somebody in the incident that he died [during].
So it was just shocking to me at first. Like, I couldn’t believe they put so much into that story to make it a big story about me. Maybe a story of a guy getting killed in a club [didn’t warrant coverage on its own]. But I didn’t understand how it turned into a Fabolous/Street Family story.

DX: Well that one promoter said you were there and you somehow I guess instigated it.
F: Which is totally false. I definitely was not in the club and didn’t even go out on Thanksgiving night. We had investigators speak to him and he says that he never told any reporter that. So I didn’t know if it was the information [was tainted], that he could've told them that and lied, or he never [said that] and the reporters just wanted to be able to have a [story]. I didn’t really know which way it went. But I know it was just sad to me that they would go this far to make that kind of story.