Mistah F.A.B.

Mistah F.A.B.
In Stanford, California in July 2008.
Background information
Birth name	Stanley Petey Cox
Born	(1982-01-23) January 23, 1982 (age 35) Oakland, CA
Genres	Hip hop, Hyphy, Rap,
Occupation(s)	Rapper, singer-songwriter, Record Producer, Entrepreneur, Community Organizer, Activists,
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Faeva Afta Music
Associated acts	Mac Dre, Traxamillion, Too Short, Snoop Dogg, E-40, Keak da Sneak, Yukmouth, Chris Brown, B.o.B.
Website	[2]

Stanley Petey Cox (born January 23, 1982), best known as Mistah F.A.B., is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, community organizer and activist. Mistah F.A.B. is an acronym for "Money Is Something to Always Have — Forever After Bread."

F.A.B.'s music career began in the late 90's when he was discovered by Jazzy Jim and Gary Archer. He was featured on a slew of Mac Dre's Thizz Nation mixtape compilations and quickly gained prominence for igniting the San Francisco Bay Area Hyphy Movement. With burgeoning national interest in Bay Area hip-hop around 2006, F.A.B. became the subject of a major-label bidding war, signing with Atlantic Records that September, under subsidiary, Thizz Entertainment. Howbeit F.A.B., who had deep independent ties with the music business in North Oakland, decided to forgo his major label deal and ventured out to launch his own imprint Faeva Afta Music in 2008.

F.A.B. is known as one of the most prominent and colorful figures of the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 2000s—sometimes hailed as the scene's "Crown Prince". He quickly become a central figure of the hyphy movement, a musical and cultural offshoot of Hip-Hop from the Bay area that carries a bass-heavy beat, blaring synthesizers and emphasizes having fun. When F.A.B. boasted of doing "the dummy retarded" in "Super Sic Wit It," he was describing an emerging aesthetic and philosophical ideal evolving within the Rap culture at the time.”

F.A.B. garnered worldwide recognition on other fronts as well particularly as a battle rapper.” F.A.B. defeated many MCs in the niche genre, including Clyde Carson of The Team, Jin of Ruff Ryders and Royce Da 5'9 of Slaughterhouse. In October 2011, Mistah F.A.B. was featured in a mobile battle rap game, Battle Rap Stars by Jump Shot Media. In 2015, F.A.B reemerged in the competitive battle rap circuit and went up against Arsonal Da Rebel in the Battle of the Bay 7.