Fabbien Nahounou (born May 19, 1984), better known as Paperboy Fabe, is an American R&B, hip hop, and contemporary music producer. He is best known for his production on Cyhi Da Prynce "Studda", The Game's "Do It B.I.G" featuring

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, and Cyhi Da Prynce's "Thousand Poundz" featuring

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& Pill, and for developing

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's sound.

Music career

Paperboy Fabe moved to

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from

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in 2002 to attend

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. There he entered into his first beat battle, and won first place over producer, M16, gaining notoriety on the Atlanta scene. Paperboy Fabe continued winning beat battles in Atlanta, New Jersey, and California. He was introduced to Cyhi Da Prynce, which led to a placement on Cyhi Da Prynce's mixtape ''Royal Flush Vol. 1'', hosted by

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. Cyhi Da Prynce went on to make a video for the song "Studda", which Paperboy Fabe produced. The video went viral and was posted on Kanye West's blog. Soon after, Cyhi Da Prynce was signed to G.O.O.D Music, with a large contribution of Paperboy Fabe's work. Rapper

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heard one of Paperboy Fabe's tracks via a mutual friend while in Atlanta. Game loved the beat and instantly released a song the very next day entitled "We Do It Big", featuring

. The song became the official promotional single for Game's next studio album, ''The R.E.D Album''. The track failed to make the album due to clearance issues; however, it made the mixtape ''Break Lights'', hosted by

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. Soon afterwards, Paperboy Fabe had the honor of working with Cyhi Da Prynce again when he produced "Thousand Poundz", featuring

and

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. The track appeared on the mixtape ''Royal Flush Vol. 2''. Paperboy Fabe got his first major placement on

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's album '' Pieces of Me''. She used the same instrumental that Cyhi Da Prynce used on his mixtape ''Royal Flush Vol. 1'', for the song "Studda". The track on the album is titled "Coffee". The placement brought Paperboy Fabe his first Grammy nomination. Paperboy Fabe relocated again to Los Angeles, where he currently resides, to further himself in the music industry has an A&R and producer. In 2013, Paperboy Fabe began developing

's sound as a writer and artist, which quickly led to her working with

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and

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. In 2015 he executive produced her debut album. In 2016, Paperboy Fabe took a break from music and began focusing on finding new talent. Before long, his partner/friend Worldwide Ty introduced him to

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. From there, Fabe quickly started focusing on Brent and eventually put his music team together executive producing Brent's first EP, ''A.M Paradox'', and also co-executive producing Brent's debut album ''Sonder Son''. In 2018, Paperboy Fabe began to travel back and forth to his homeland in West Africa by way of

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to begin working on the infusion of

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and R&B. He is currently working with many local artists from the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia & Nigeria.

Discography

2009

Cyhi Da Prynce - ''Royal Flush I''

* 13. "Studda"

2010

Game - ''Brake Lights''

* 12. "Do it B.I.G" featuring

Jay Rock - ''Black Friday''

* 08. "In These Streets" (featuring

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)

2011

Ledisi - ''Pieces of Me''

* 05. "

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Cyhi Da Prynce - ''Royal Flush II''

* 05. "Thousand Poundz" (featuring

& Pill)

2013

TGT - ''Three Kings''

* 01. "Take it Wrong" (performed by

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, Tank & Black-Ty)"TGT – Three Kings"
AllMusic.

2016

Bibi Bourelly

* "Sally" * "Ego" * "Riot" * "Guitar" * "Poet" * "Flowers" * "Fool"

Brent Faiyaz - ''A.M. Paradox''

* 03. "Invite Me" (Drum Programming) * 05. "No One Knows"

2017

Brent Faiyaz - ''Sonder Son''

* 06. "Stay Down" * 07. "LA" * 12. "All I Want"

2018

Wale - ''Free Lunch''

* 01. "Dummies

2019

Juice WRLD - ''Death Race For Love''

* 04. "Demonz

2022

Brent Faiyaz - ''
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''

* 02. "Loose Change" * 15. "Role Model" * 17. "Bad Luck"

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

The

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s are awarded annually by the

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American Learned society, learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals. It is famous f ...

. Paperboy Fabe has been nominated two times.

References

External links

Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Paperboy Fabe 1984 births Living people American hip hop record producers Musicians from Atlanta Musicians from Hartford, Connecticut Musicians from Los Angeles Musicians from Oklahoma City Record producers from California